Jeremy Runnells recalls CES Letter being shared on Mormonthink.com around late April after going viral on Mormon Stories Interview.
"Mormon Stories 480: Jeremy Runnells Pt 1 - On Growing Up Mormon and the Genesis of the CES Letter," Youtube, June 21, 2014
John: So, the original version is all you?
Jeremy: Yeah.
John: All your study and writing?
Jeremy: Yeah.
John: Okay.
Jeremy: I didn't get a lot of criticism. I just got, "Wow, this is kind of cool that you made it all comprehensive." So, it kinda just spread it around, got viral a little bit and it ended up getting into the hands of MormonThink, Tom Phillips and he really liked it. He emailed me. He said, "This is great. Let's put this up." I said, "Cool." So, we put it up and then it really blew upfrom there.
John: Okay, so when did it get put up, about?
Jeremy: I don't know. Around that time in late April. Somewhere around there.
John: Okay. Well, that's not a long. You didn't wait three months to publish it online.
Jeremy: No, remember I didn't - It went viral. Some of the people on Reddit that were checking it, they spread it around. Then it got into the hands of MormonThink.
John: Okay. So, how much time did you spend thinking about, "Do I really want to be a named dissident across the world regarding Mormonism?"
Jeremy: I didn't think like that. I didn't realize this was going to blow up. I just thought it was just a letter and it would just eventually fade, but when it started getting on MormonThink and I started getting emails and then more emails and then more emails.
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