Personal note / update: earlier on I wrote this post about can I leave the church alone?, wherein I honestly discuss my ultimate goal to move on from Shawn’s Odyssey and live a healthy and authentic life. One could look…
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Today I gave a presentation at the Sunday Assembly community in Sydney about my journey out of Mormon belief. The Sunday Assembly is a friendly, secular / non-religious community that meets about once a month for a “kind of church”.…
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Summary: Without any good arguments or evidence to indicate the contrary, I now choose to believe, and think I have good reason to believe, that our entire experience with reality — no matter how profound, beautiful and mysterious it may be — is…
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Over the past year I’ve heard a large variety of opinions and viewpoints about Joseph Smith. Indeed his name is known for “good and evil” around the (Mormon) world. He’s certainly a controversial figure. Naturally, those who fully subscribe to…
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Since writing my other post earlier this month about leaving the church alone, I have made a more conscious effort to reduce the amount of time, intellectual as well as emotional resources I dedicate to thinking about Mormonism, and even…
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In 1989 Glenn L. Pace said the following in general conference: “It seems that history continues to teach us: You can leave the Church, but you can’t leave it alone.” This is an interesting and provocative statement. The faithful Mormon…
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Over the past few months as I’ve gradually settled into this new world of post-orthodox Mormon belief and worldview, I’ve felt the need to be upfront and straightforward with family and friends about what I think and how I feel.…
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Here’s a cool set of “spiritual experiences” I recently came upon. There’s a cool game that can be played with these — can you match the experience with the religious tradition? Minor modifications have been applied to remove specific denominational…
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About a month ago I was curious to see if atheists went to any church at all — so I went to Google and typed in “Atheist church” and the first result was the Sunday Assembly. It turned out that…
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“Inoculation” is the word that people use to refer to the church’s efforts (implicit or explicit) to expose the young members of the church to controversial issues early on so that, in future years, if they are to encounter these issues…
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