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To: lady lawyer
The article actually misquotes the brother. The earliest articles said that he “believed he had been shunned to hell.” Our church does not practice “shunning.” Even those who are excommunicated can attend church. I know a few who have done it, and been rebaptized. And, we don’t believe that the promiscuity for which he was apparently excommunicated years ago would condemn him to “hell.” It takes much more than that to go to actual “hell.” So, he cooked up this belief pretty much on his own, when he was off his meds.

LOL..keep digging...you are admitting that this whole shooting incident was personal, and not an act against mormonism in general.

As to the shunning, your claim that your "church" does not practice it but there are many who have experienced it from the members...in fact, there are those non-mormons who live in Utah who will tell you of their children not being allowed to play with mormons.

Since we left, we've noticed on at least 6 different occasions that ward members (we're not in Utah) we run into in the grocery store or elsewhere duck away and avoid us. Most recently (last night), I ran into a high counselor who was a personal friend of mine in the ward; we weren't good enough friends to have stayed in touch. He looked me squarely in the eye, and as I nodded my head and started to say hello, he looked ahead and kept on walking. What a jerk!

133 posted on 08/31/2010 8:18:21 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (BARF of the YEAR: Obama "We are God's partners in matters of life and death,")
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To: greyfoxx39

I can remember an incident like the one you describe. A woman on the next block, who I had really liked, began an affair with a co-worker, decided the Mormon church wasn’t true, walked out on her faithful husband, breaking his heart, convinced two of her four children to leave the husband and the church with her, and began going around the ward to people whom she considered vulnerable, trying to talk them into leaving the church, too. She couldn’t just leave. She had to try to convince as many people as possible that she was right, and they were stupid to stay. I couldn’t look her in the face. I didn’t know what to say to her. She probably thought I was jerk, too. Oh, well.

As I said, people tend to avoid those who are hostile to everything that they hold sacred. I make no apologies for that.


135 posted on 08/31/2010 8:28:50 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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