724: Noah Rasheta's Mormon Transition Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Mormon Stories, we interview Noah Rasheta — the Executive Director of the Foundation for Mindful Living and host of the Secular Buddhism podcast. This meaningful and compelling interview covers:
- Noah’s early life as an orthodox Mormon believer and his struggle with the thought that with all of the good in the world, is it possible that the path set forth by the LDS Church is the only valid one?
- How he felt uneasy and shaken as he broadened his study of the Mormon faith
- His description of his transitioning process, his fears of leaving the LDS Church, and “coming out” as a non-believer to those in his faith community
- How as his transition progressed, his view towards people became more kind, warm, and compassionate
- His studies of Buddhist philosophy and the development of a purpose-driven life by integrating Buddhist teachings, modern science, humanism, and humor
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| 0:50.4 | So Noah, talk about |
| 0:52.9 | you know the impetus for your Mormon faith transition. |
| 0:56.9 | What, do you remember the first moment when you were open to the possibility that church wasn't true? |
| 1:03.1 | Do you remember what caused it? Talk a bit about the beginning of your transition. |
| 1:10.3 | Sure. So the first time it ever occurred to me was I was going through in my personal life, |
| 1:17.6 | going through a breach of confidence from somebody close to me that really impacted me because it was just kind of out of left field. |
| 1:29.2 | I never suspected that this person close to me could do this. So kind of what happened is in the middle of that, there was this... |
| 1:43.5 | First, there's usually the shock or the being upset about finding out somebody has been dishonest with you. |
| 1:54.6 | And thinking, the second to that was thinking, how did I not notice this? How did I totally misread this situation as it was happening? Why didn't I see this coming? |
| 2:06.4 | And that with time turned into... If I was uncapable of what's the word? |
| 2:22.8 | Discerning this person that I thought I knew so well, what else could I be wrong about? |
| 2:29.8 | I remember that was the first time it ever occurred to me that I could actually be wrong about my assessment of anything because my assessment of one thing was off. |
| 2:40.0 | And that didn't translate to doubting my beliefs or anything at first. It just translated to, I thought I didn't know I could be wrong about something. |
| 2:50.5 | And with time that kind of turned into, well, geez, what if I was wrong about everything? |
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