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josephbgirthlin7 karma

Wow, that was fast! Thank you soooooo much for what you are doing! I really appreciate your incredibly thoughtful answer and for the encouraging words regarding having a happy, healthy, loving mixed faith marriage. And thank you for the links, I will definitely check those out. I will let my wife know you're there and will keep my fingers crossed that she calls.

josephbgirthlin5 karma

Have you ever offered support to a believing spouse of someone who has lost their faith? As a non believing Mormon, I feel like I have an incredible amount of support from the exmormon community. However, I feel like my wife is in a place of almost complete isolation and is being severely neglected by her church in this regard. I feel like the information they do give her is not healthy and is meant to undermine my credibility.

josephbgirthlin2 karma

Podcasts have been immensely helpful to me throughout my faith transition, and I found them early on. I would love to hear you on an episode of Mormon Stories or Infants on Thrones. Have you ever considered reaching out to either of them and offering to do an interview?

josephbgirthlin2 karma

Some of the most profound experiences of my life have occurred while listening to Dawkins lay out the intricacies of evolution by natural selection. I love Harris as well and the world lost an incredible human being when we lost Hitchens. Some of the leaders and apologists in Mormonism have been taking shots at him of late. I only wish they were a big enough deal for Hitchens to have wanted to debate, though I don't think they would have ever agreed to it.

josephbgirthlin1 karma

That's great to hear! I can't wait to listen!