AS135: Being Raised A Mormon Girl, with Megan
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Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 11 May 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Some time ago I had two ex-Mormons, Bill and Gerald, on to discuss their experience with the church. After hearing that, Megan sent me a message asking if I wanted to get the female perspective on the Mormon experience. I said absolutely! So Megan is here to give us another side of the story. With … Continue reading AS135: Being Raised A Mormon Girl, with Megan
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking this is episode 135 with your host |
| 0:38.1 | Thomas Smith with me right now is Megan how are you you Megan? I'm good. Thanks for inviting me on. Oh, thanks for |
| 0:46.7 | letting me know you. Thanks for volunteering. I'm very excited because Megan had |
| 0:51.8 | messaged me about the fact that she heard the ex-Morman podcast I did. |
| 0:58.6 | And it was good, but we had all male voices and she said, you interested in you know the female perspective on that and I said |
| 1:06.4 | absolutely yes and so I'm really excited to hear about it. |
| 1:10.8 | Right, great. So if you don't mind, can you give, you know, your background and this regards |
| 1:16.6 | religion and we'll start to dissect the differences and stuff and things. |
| 1:21.1 | Oh yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:22.3 | So I guess I could start with my Mormon Cred. I was raised |
| 1:28.5 | Mormon. My on one side of my family were from Pioneer Stock and went back several |
| 1:36.6 | generations of Mormons coming up with a look at his ancestors on one side and then on my |
| 1:41.6 | other side yep on the other side, yep. On the other side I have great grandparents |
| 1:45.6 | are integrated from Germany right before World War II to join the church. So I've had a |
| 1:50.5 | pretty pretty most I would say too much of all of my family is Mormon on both sides just a few slowly sneaking |
| 1:59.2 | their way out but yeah very very strong Mormon ties. |
| 2:03.0 | So you're saying that all nine or ten of your grandmothers are Mormon, |
| 2:07.0 | is that what you're saying? |
| 2:08.0 | Oh, yeah, probably. |
| 2:10.0 | I'm not, I haven't quite kept track of that my my grandparents are really into genealogy |
| 2:16.9 | That's a big Mormon thing most Mormons are all into that stuff and and my grandparents like to |
| 2:25.4 | a downplay that polygamy aspect of our house. I was going to say that must look interesting on that family tree |
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