Yet, Jehovah’s Witnesses who voluntarily leave the religion for conscientious reasons are often divorced by their mates who remain in the religion. When I resigned as a Witness in 2015, My wife of 43 years divorced me.
Totally blown away. I'm so very sorry.
But it is a different matter to use the protections afforded a religion by the First Amendment to falsify history, to propagate forgeries, and to cover up human-rights abuses.”
Absolutely agree
However, just five years later, in 1952, the Watchtower Society embraced a more severe form of excommunication called disfellowshiping.
Just to make things clearer, the practice of shunning for dissassociation didn't come into practice until 1981, as a result of the GBs desire to besmirch the good name of Ray Franz.
Excellent, hard hitting piece!