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Podcast Summary, Episode #1: Deconversions

Leighton

 

Religion: LDS – Latter Day Saints (Mormon)

Experience:

  1. At the age of 20 dropped out of college and began to travel around the world for ten years.
  2. Family: Parents adopted 13 children and had six of their own. Upon the increased size of the family moved from Park City to Rose Canyon wherein we built our own home measuring in at roughly 6500 square feet.
  3. Grew up in an extremely religious home: Family scripture reading every night, family prayer first thing in the morning and last thing at night, Monday night religious/family time, and three hours of church on Sunday.
  4. The only one of the “birth children” to walk away from my childhood religion.
  5. The “falling away” began in the younger days concerning contradictions within the scriptures themselves. Was confronted by differing religious ideas and views in the world travels and these further eroded faith until historical facts, to be discussed in the future, caused religion to fall to the wayside.
  6. “Falling away” process took roughly ten years.

My Family

Chuck

 

Religion: FM – Fundamentalist Mormon

Experience:

  1. Went to the University of Utah with a major in Philosophy and then into medical school before finishing his residency in Scottsdale, AZ.
  2. Grew up in a semi-religious home, brief spurts of religious fervor throughout his younger days. Was baptized in a pool. Church meetings were held at his grandparent’s place where the children were taught in one area and the adults in another.
  3. The “falling away” began in his youth when questions concerning why god would choose a certain people for salvation yet leave so many outside this true religion. Real doubts began when going through college for Philosophy. Met his current wife who tossed in a struggle to determine which church is true: hers or his. No conversion either way occurred. In medical school the constant call for evidence swayed him along with no real “good” arguments for god could stand up to scrutiny.
  4. “Falling away” process took roughly nine years.

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