Need advice for a friend who stopped believing but is heavily involved in the church:

[beam me up scottie]

(I am posting this for a very good friend of mine who's concerned about a girl he knows)

She is quite religious, goes to church, youth groups, etc.

However, a few days ago, she started talking about something that's really been stressing her out in the last month. As it turns out, she doesn't believe anything the church has told her. She really wants to--her whole community is based in and around the church. Most of her friends are heavily involved in all of it. But she just can't (for obvious reasons).

I'm wondering if you have any idea what to say to her to help her through this. I have never been in her position before, so I don't know what might help, and my friends I have who became atheists weren't worried about leaving that community.

I think she's planning on staying in all of it and just letting everyone know that she doesn't believe any of it. I don't know how well it'll go, but if there's a community that will still accept her despite her lack of belief, it's that one. A good group of people, for the most part. And she's not about to be wooed back into the church, thankfully. Too smart and too honest for that.

Your thoughts A&A regulars?