We did not have a faith crisis.

Um, I did.

This thought crops of every once in awhile, and has been a popular thought in the past decade, especially with Ash's book publication.

A lot of what people leaving Mormonism experience is exactly that—a real faith crisis and really ties into what we know is an existential crisis

You can say your faith was misplaced or you learned that you can't put your faith in a fraud, that would be better stated.

Yeah, this won't line up with a lot of folks who weren't shopping faith to begin with. There was one truth about existence, and it was Mormonism.

And it's really similar to the Victorians after Darwin and friends brought to light a convincing explanation for our existence that didn't involve any gods. It was arguably the first time in modern history that an argument could so strongly undercut the deeply held existential beliefs of these Christians who knew no other believable explanation for their place in the cosmos.

As I've studied their attitudes and reactions, it's mirrored mine from when I had the wind knocked out of me. It's this overwhelming attitude of, Shit... what now?

But a "Faith Crisis" makes it sound like we had a problem and we need to be fixed.

For many, unless they've got some type of safety net for coping and building healthy thinking strategies, this is exactly what happens.

I didn't have a "Faith Crisis" The church is having a "Truth Crisis"

And this is certainly your experience. I'd like to read more about your exit—interesting how we all navigate this area differently, right?

My congratulations to you for having the epistemic wherewithal to lack the struggle that so many of us first experience when discovering that reality is very different than what we'd been indoctrinated from day one to know as the truth.