**** 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.
I really hope you are not suggesting this of me?