When members of a cult turn their backs on former members and treat them like strangers it is called shunning and is a recognized tactic of cults.]
That is probably the most clear description I seen of what goes on that many here will not acknowledge - the “shunning” of former members.
Bears repeating I haven't called mormonism a cult, but this behavior is a fact of life if you leave it, I know!
It is not the leaving I would shun some one it is the ugliness one produces when they know in their hearts some of the things they are saying they are distorting to make their point.
I know folks who left the Chruch but they don't become backbitters they move on with their life and I can remain friends with them because I respect their choice.
But if they started a champaign against the church sure I would shun them and find them a stranger which it came to Church things!
When Lucifer left the fold to do his own thing is he not an out cast to the Heavenly Father an enemy?
**** the “shunning” of former members.****
A mormon friend of mine has been separated from his wife for like three years. She left him, the mormon church and turned her back on most of their children. He tells me, she tells him, she is often shunned by mormons including him. He says “I don’t understand? I disagree with her choices, but shun her? No. I don’t get it.” He speaks respectfully of her even though she is “gone”.
I figure she is the one doing the shunning, and transferring her feelings as motive to others to justify her feelings. I say this because before she left him she would voice negative words regarding ex and anti mormons.
So I then think, is there a correlation between those that participate in shunning then, at a later time, leaving beliefs behind? Does this apply to more than just mormons and mormonism? If so, then the act of shunning does something deep and fundamental to a person.
I pray for both of their souls.