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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 4:24:34 -0400


As far as the practice of disownment, I appreciate the further comments. What we forget is that many religions did this for years where there was a cross marriage or marriage outside the church or other infractions of the rules. Catholics and Jewish families were most prominent for years. I belonged to a sect which...did not belileve in formal membership and what was most devastating was when my aunt had a disagreement with the pastor and it wasn't called any of these names but amounted to the same thing. The church was like a family and when the disagreement came up, the people from the church could not speak to us. Literally. This is like your family disowning you even though I was an innocent party in the disagreement. We also were encouraged not to have anything to do with any relatives or friends who were not from this church. My grandmother was going both to our church and the Nazarene Church and she was told to make a choice. Because she chose to go to the N!
azarene Church, we were discouraged from having contact with her. You may say this was done with love and after a long period of counselling and in some cases this may have been true. My family has deep roots in the Quaker faith...but I find that many of the beliefs of what I understand about the faith are not consistent with the Bible. Perhaps we could be enlightened. Pat Morano

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