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Originally Posted by Adam
No question that the process is at fault far too often to far too great an extent.
Isolation and punishment works great to force compliance when the tribe is isolated and the options for the sinner are few.
Excommunication is a great punishment threat and corrective motivator if there is no other good community to join. Today there are literally thousands of great communities ready and willing to love and welcome anyone who knocks. Once the church says they can't speak, pray, take the sacrament, pay tithing or comment in class, is it any wonder they are open to love from someone else?
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I open up the same questions to you then that I did to Arch.
How do you propose the process be changed? What specifically should be done differently?
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Last edited by RockyBalboa; 11-29-2007 at 12:46 AM.
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