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09-24-2016, 06:00 PM
How the ex-Mormon community is blowing up online
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The hidden depths of the Web can offer a disguise, a cloak of a**nymity.*
And the ex-Mormon community is ** different.
Many have gathered in a place where names aren't mentioned and personal backgrounds and histories are kept in the dark. There are 33,000 subscribers (http://redditmetrics.com/r/exmormon) on the ex-Mormon subreddit, a community where church controversies and grief over leaving the religion are mostly aired freely.
Just 1.6 percent (http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/) of the United States is Mormon, but the membership numbers of exmormon dwarf that of other ex-religious groups. The second-largest Reddit community for people who've left their faith is the exmuslim subreddit, which has a relatively paltry 15,459 subscribers (http://redditmetrics.com/r/exmuslim). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/24/former-mormons-on-reddit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The hidden depths of the Web can offer a disguise, a cloak of a**nymity.*
And the ex-Mormon community is ** different.
Many have gathered in a place where names aren't mentioned and personal backgrounds and histories are kept in the dark. There are 33,000 subscribers (http://redditmetrics.com/r/exmormon) on the ex-Mormon subreddit, a community where church controversies and grief over leaving the religion are mostly aired freely.
Just 1.6 percent (http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/) of the United States is Mormon, but the membership numbers of exmormon dwarf that of other ex-religious groups. The second-largest Reddit community for people who've left their faith is the exmuslim subreddit, which has a relatively paltry 15,459 subscribers (http://redditmetrics.com/r/exmuslim). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/24/former-mormons-on-reddit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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