excommunication in other churches

[MikeWaters]

Is there a church out there, or even any social organization, that calls excommunication primarily "an act of love"?

Is this something unique to Mormonism?

[BYU71]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Is there a church out there, or even any social organization, that calls excommunication primarily "an act of love"?

Is this something unique to Mormonism?

Is there some kind of official statement from the church calling excommunication an act of love?

[MikeWaters]

Here's a Catholic calling it an act of love:

http://romancleric.blogspot.com/2006...-and-love.html

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by BYU71

Is there some kind of official statement from the church calling excommunication an act of love?

Not sure. But this link says President Taylor considered the great flood to be an act of love, i.e. mass drowning of the human race.

http://www.lds.org/braille/PearlofGr...dentManual.txt

In a way that thinking is kind of scary. You could see how a suicide bomber might consider his act to be one of great love.

[BYU71]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Here's a Catholic calling it an act of love:

http://romancleric.blogspot.com/2006...-and-love.html

I thought your original question was is there any church out there besides ours that calls it an act of love. I guess you already had an answer to the question??????

My question was is there any official statement from "the" church calling it an act of love.

[Archaea]

So Texite mullahs exist in other faiths. How comforting.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by BYU71

I thought your original question was is there any church out there besides ours that calls it an act of love. I guess you already had an answer to the question??????

My question was is there any official statement from "the" church calling it an act of love.

Tex, calls it loving as often as he cans. He considers himself the ultimate authority, so you don't need to look any further.

[BYU71]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Not sure. But this link says President Taylor considered the great flood to be an act of love, i.e. mass drowning of the human race.

http://www.lds.org/braille/PearlofGr...dentManual.txt

In a way that thinking is kind of scary. You could see how a suicide bomber might consider his act to be one of great love.

One thing is for sure. You can do many wierd and obscene things in the name of religion. If God tells you to do something, it makes it right no matter what the act is. That is what makes people who believe totally in blind obedience scary to me.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by BYU71

One thing is for sure. You can do many wierd and obscene things in the name of religion. If God tells you to do something, it makes it right no matter what the act is. That is what makes people who believe totally in blind obedience scary to me.

And if you were a leader wishing to keep the masses in check, wouldn't you rely upon divine authority?

[BYU71]

Originally Posted by Archaea

And if you were a leader wishing to keep the masses in check, wouldn't you rely upon divine authority?

Either that or I would put a tremendous amount of fear into the masses like the communists have done or people like Hitler and Hussein.