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 thing that I’ve found disturbing isn’t “shunning,” but from the testimony of former Mormons, that the church encourages divorce when one of the spouses leaves the Mormon church. This is contrary to the Bible which says that you should not leave an unbelieving spouse. It is also cult-like in it’s attempted control of members by force and fear.
In my case, the leaving produced the shunning. The attitude of the shunners produced the ugliness in their hearts toward one who dared refuse to accept the lies of Joseph Smith.
AND, since anyone who leaves the church is accused of all kinds of things, I remarried without a temple divorce, in the time before the LDS church was SUED to allow resignations. Therefore, I was excommunicated. Had I been able to, I would have resigned.
When Lucifer left the fold to do his own thing is he not an out cast to the Heavenly Father an enemy?
Joseph Smith is NOT Heavenly Father, and the comparison of me to Lucifer is indicative of the the kind of mentality that produces shunning.
Is this the kind of message mormons would have their missionaries carry to the contacts they make? "Don't dare to leave once you are in, or you are considered Lucifers?"
I always find it strange that the church that proselytizes against other religions probably more heavily than most, tries the hardest to censor those who would question their doctrines.
"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!"
Shunning makes people strangers not only to "church" things, it affects all the relationships one has. "Shunning is the act of deliberately avoiding association with, and habitually keeping away from an individual or group. It is a sanction against association often associated with religious groups and other tightly-knit organisations and communities." Wikipedia
Gosh; it's kinda hard to tell; for he's ALWAYS spouting 'scripture'!