Beauvoir’s priestly encounters collapsed her religious faith through humiliation

Evidence

When a priest criticizes her for not telling him all her sins, she is so ashamed she never goes back to him: “In my mind I had confused God with Father Mirande … but this God was so ridiculous I soon began to doubt His existence” (W, 172; A, 291). She decides to ask another priest for advice, but he wants to know, “What is this sin that has kept you so long from the sacraments?” Marguerite reacts: “Th at was it, I was sick of these spiritual consultations … he certainly helped liquidate the last vestiges of religion” (W, 173; A, 292). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 567