(August 10, 2014 at 8:20 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Lamborn's book doesn't spend much time on the crazy. He's interested in three things: contradictions with the real world; the negative affect that Mormonism has on families; the secretiveness and deceptions of the church authorities.
Leaving the Saints didn't focus on the crazy beliefs much, it was more the first-person account of how the author deconverted and her experiences because she is the daughter of a very well known Mormon *cough* scholar *cough cough* :p Phone taps, threatening phone calls, threats to her job, confronting family about certain circumstances, etc.
I've found that I don't especially care for books on "How [so-and-so] became an atheist" but I love reading ones about people deconverting from their religions. Perhaps because it's so foreign to me to be that invested in a belief that it's life-altering to step away from it.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
