How the
ex-Mormon community is
blowing up online
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 on the
ex-Mormon subreddit, a
community where church controversies and grief over leaving the religion are mostly aired freely.
Just
1.6 percent 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.
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