{"id":53654,"date":"2025-07-29T13:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=53654"},"modified":"2026-09-23T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:00:51","slug":"ben-affleck-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ar\/learn\/ben-affleck-mormon\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0647\u0644 \u0628\u0646 \u0623\u0641\u0644\u064a\u0643 \u0645\u0648\u0631\u0645\u0648\u0646\u064a\u061f"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>No. Nothing Ben Affleck has said, and no reliable report, connects him to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 2020 he said he goes to a Methodist church and came to Christianity &quot;a little bit later in life.&quot; He has also spoken openly about doubt, and in 2023 about an interest in Buddhism. What religion is Ben Affleck? Affleck grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In a 2011 cover story, The Hollywood Reporter described him as coming &quot;from\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ar\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ar\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. Ben Affleck has no known tie to the Latter-day Saints. In 2020 he said he goes to a Methodist church, and he has spoken openly about doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[336],"class_list":["post-53654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education","series-the-mormons-lds"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53691,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ar\/learn\/nara-smith-mormon\/","url_meta":{"origin":53654,"position":0},"title":"Is Nara Smith Mormon?","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"\u0645\u0627\u0631\u0633 11, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"No. Nara Smith said \"I'm not Mormon\" in June 2025. 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