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Welcome back to Infants on Thrones. I'm Glenn Ostland and this is episode 586. Why People Leave the

Mormon Church. Now that's a simplified title based on a blog post called The Four Reasons People Leave the Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter-day Saints and how to help them come back.

I just simplified it into why people leave the Mormon Church.

And I'm doing this because one of the Patreon supporters,

Jeff Caldwell, sent me this email the other day.

He said, Glenn, need some fodder for a sharing time episode. Sharing time episodes are the ones that I do that are Patreon only content.

Jeremy Gough recently wrote an article about why people leave the church and how to help them back.

As you can imagine, it is full of deep insights and good advice.

Not, okay, Jeff.

I don't know, you may be surprised at how I respond to some of Jeremy Goughs comments.

So you know when I got this email I've read the blog and I'm going to read it for you here today.

I'm going to comment on it and then I'm going to attach an old episode that was a

panel discussion that we had back in June of 2015 so over four years ago. And it was Glenn, Jake, John Hammer, Randy, and Tom.

We responded to a listener email saying, hey guys, what are the top three reasons you left the church?

So we called it 50 ways to leave the

church the problem is all inside your head it seems to me anyway I know the math

doesn't quite add up but anyway so let me start with Jeremy Gough and his

blog post my thoughts on the the blog post and then we'll go to the panel discussion and that's an episode that's what you get today.

You ready? Here we go. All right, so this is a blog post that was written by Jeremy Gough, who I think Jeremy's what probably 28 years old he lives in Provo and he

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