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Religions like the Jehovah's Witnesses encourage family members to shun those who are "excommunicated", or "disfellowshipped", in fact, at the 2013 convention talks, they encouraged family members to disown their children and/or parents if they get disfellowshipped as seen in this video, and they even embrace Matthew 10:34-35 ("Do not think I came to put peace upon the earth; I came to put, not peace, but a sword. For I came to cause division, with a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a young wife against her mother‐in‐law."): www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yLdwe….

Jehovah's Witnesses also encourage those to shun family members who are "apostates" (an apostate, according to about any dictionary you can find is someone who no longer associates themselves with a religion or a political party, many JWs can be considered apostates since they may have left their church, to attend a Kingdom Hall), including avoiding speaking to them, commenting on their blogs, watching a program featuring them, this is the video for more information (and you can even notice a baby crying, it just sickens me that children get subject to this bullshit): www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSEVEe…

Because of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's policies on disfellowshipping, I lost contact with my parents, and my bro (for a while, but we managed to find a way to hang out with each other), and I also lost friends (at least a few of them stuck with me), I was disfellowshipped at age 19 for having an affair with someone else's partner (they also caught me smoking pot but that wasn't really the main case).

And this isn't exclusive to the Jehovah's Witness cult, Mormonism and Scientology also encourage shunning (www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/dis….

This stamp mostly talks about the Jehovah's Witness religion, but this also talks about other religions, and this stamp was made for people who refuse to follow the practice of shunning a person because they are either excommunicated, or are apostates.
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SilverBeastLaguz's avatar

The shunning thing is pretty much stupid and can even lead to horrible consequences like this for example: https://www.freep.com/story/news/2018/05/18/keego-harbor-murder-suicide-lauren-stuart/620709002


My friend is dead because of these Jehovah's witnesses. This gives me reason to despise cults of any kind. So what if someone thinks and does things differently from you, that doesn't mean you should shun your friends and family for it.