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Originally Posted by Cali Coug
It does raise an interesting question, though. If you were to write something bad about the church and try to publish it but failed, I doubt you would be excommunicated. If you were to succeed, you very well could be.
So, you aren't excommunicated for your action alone necessarily, but you are excommunicated if other people act to promote your action. A bit odd.
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This is really outside the question I asked, but I'll bite anyway. Is it really so odd? With apostasy, is not the seriousness of the remedy directly related to the extent of the "damage"? You can sit in your pew and apostasize all you want in your head ... it's when you begin to spread it to others that it becomes a problem.
More to my point, though ... perhaps myboynoah has hit it. People who are apostates don't really consider themselves apostates--they're good little Uzzahs, out trying to help the ark.
It still confuses me, though, that they crave the approval (via ordinance) of a church they feel has fallen.