Article: Confessions of an Ex-Mormon

[Jacob]

This is a really great essay. Read it.
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/...-religion-kirn
Probably been linked elsewhere, but I don't care.

My favorite line:

You can scoff at their oddities, skip out of your mission, run off to college, and wander for 30 years through barrooms and bedrooms and court rooms and all-night pharmacies, but they never quite forget you, I learned that day.

[marsupial]

This is a really great essay. Read it.
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/...-religion-kirn
Probably been linked elsewhere, but I don't care.

My favorite line:

I didn't realize he was an ex-Mormon. I had read the book Up in the Air and was surprised by all the Mormon references in it, which were taken out of the movie.

[jay santos]

Great article.

[Surfah]

He wrote a great article for GQ about Mitt and the bible belt a while back. That's when I first learned he was Mo.

This, like that article, was fantastic. So he used to kick it with BO eh?

[Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz]

And this is my favorite:

What finally separated me from the Church was a loss of nerve, not a crisis of belief. My time in the ward had shown me at close range that God doesn’t work in mysterious ways at all, but by enlisting assistants on the ground. I saw sick people healed through the laying on of hands, not suddenly and magically, but gradually, from the comfort that comes of feeling the group’s concern. I’d heard inspired messages spoken in common English, sometimes from my own excited lips. This proximity to the sacred scared me off. Too much responsibility, it felt like. Too much pressure to side with the miraculous, which places demands on a busy, modern person. You sit down on a plane beside a gloomy lawyer who’s cursing himself under his breath, and instead of ignoring him and reading a book, you have to ask his name and offer solace.

[LiveCoug]

Thanks for the link. That was a cool essay.

So, was he referring to Ben Olson there at the end?

[Jacob]

Thanks for the link. That was a cool essay.

So, was he referring to Ben Olson there at the end?

Yep. Right time period.

[Tim]

Fantastic!

[MarkGrace]

Kirn married his ex-wife when he was 32 and she was 19. Yikes. Also, his ex-MIL is Lois Lane.

I was just looking at this wiki page.

[Goatnapper'96]

Kirn married his ex-wife when he was 32 and she was 19. Yikes. Also, his ex-MIL is Lois Lane.

I was just looking at this wiki page.

As I often say to AtheistCougar: you can take the boy out of mormonism, but you can't take the mormonism out of the boy!

[Commando]

Thanks for the link. That was a cool essay.

So, was he referring to Ben Olson there at the end?

I was about to post this- the timeline sounds about right. Sounds like he chilled with Opie!

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Add him to the list of people who were directly asked about masturbation by his bishop. I don't remember what thread that discussion occurred.

[lambdacoug]

As I often say to AtheistCougar: you can take the boy out of mormonism, but you can't take the mormonism out of the boy!

[Goatnapper'96]

Lots of people marry girls that are 19....ya I know, they are called mormons!

[lambdacoug]

Lots of people marry girls that are 19....ya I know, they are called mormons!

I call them lightweights...