I’m glad he’s coming clean but he should have apologized to the generation of young evangelicals he helped leave in sexual ruins. Read “Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Genderatio if Women and How I Broke Free.” The author addresses the audacity of Harris’ work. [amazon.com]

abstinence from marriage is the key.

Honestly this is very encouraging to me. I like the way this man is handling things. It sounds like he's not trying to hide his disillusionment for the sake of his mistakes being very public. He made the very natural mistake of thinking he knew it all as a youth and others made the natural mistake of lapping up advice because it reflected what they wanted to hear rather than wisdom won by experience. The best thing that could happen now is this guy humbly acknowledging his mistakes. I wish the best for him. Hopefully he'll learn to use that charisma for better things.

Welcome to the real world. Most of us have to rethink our beliefs, at some point.

Abstaining from sex before marriage is like buying a car without test driving it.

I'm kinda in the same situation as that guy was... too young to know Jack s hit, but I'll try to be less willing to open my mouth about it than he was. All i can say is, I'm less stupid then I was at 20, also 18 years seems to be a pretty good run, and there was no horrible scandal involved (that we know of) and that's a good thjng.

How could any 21 year old write a book giving advice on how to build a lasting lifelong relationship....leaving aside any issue of being celibate or not, when they had barely reached adulthood. To have been taken seriously by so many, speaks more to good promotion by the Christian evangelical movement than to any actual practical knowledge of the subject and expertise. Am I surprised at the news that this couple have parted ...no! It would be really nice if he would now be humble enough to call a press conference to say that it was all bullshit, care to take a bet on that happening?

Sounds like someone finally woke up and smelled reality.

People grow and change. Good on him for admitting it.

I foresee him getting reunited with dating in the near future.

I view the goings on of Fundy Christians, even the celeb ones, with sort of a detached take like an anthropologist of watching a primitive tribe. What a strange bunch they are. I really don't care enough to want to make sense of what they do in their private lives.....

Well there is a surprise.

I once read that only 30% of those who took abstinence pledges kept to them, and most of those who broke the vow did NOT use birth control.

But my favorite all-time statistic was that 2/3 who didn't have intercourse DID have oral sex.

How does anyone at 21 know anything about adult life?

It might have been worse. He could have been in the "forever marriage" to wake up and discover that it was now all over.

Cute couple. If there is a god, they'll make up for their past mistakes and go on an enlightening, no-holds-barred pansexual bender.

those who can, do, those who can't teach you how to do?

If only he'd thought BEFORE he inflicted a book on unsuspecting youth

Ya think?

Yup no shit that doesn't work would have done his wife lol