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   Our objective is to become more Christ-like.  The example He set for us by   
   His actions alone excluded shunning.  In fact contrary to jewish shunning   
   practices of the 1st century; He made a point to do the oppisite to   
   display by doing what the new law of love; ala "do unto others/"love   
   neighbor as self"" means in practice toward all.   
      
   Jews despised and shunned the Samaritans to avoid having them pollute their   
   "godliness". The entire parable of the good Samaritan was about a shunned   
   Samaritan doing the right thing while jewish religious leaders did not want   
   to be bothered to help a prson in distress.   
      
   The jw vatican has similar motivations for shunning.  They want to exclude   
   any jw who is awake and rejects its extreme top down control over every   
   detail of their lives as being un-christian.  So olther jw will not realize   
   the same things; they are shunned by their entire jw ffamily and all jw who   
   know them.  If a jw doesn't shun; even a parent must shun their child; they   
   risk being shunned themselves.   
      
   It is used as a threat, if shunned the jw vatican with holds etrnal life   
   from the person.   
      
   A ritual display of being shunned is made publically at the "hall".  The   
   "crime" is questioning/rejecting the jw vatican on some point of   
   doctrine/practice more often then any act of individual sin.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)