07-10-2007, 09:20 PM | #1 |
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reasons for excommunication
My dad said when he was on the high council there were two main categories that led to excommunication: 1) sexual sin and 2) crime.
For example a member was convicted of murder, and was excommunicated. He said no one was ever excommunicated for apostasy. Didn't even come up, I think. |
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I don't agree with that statement.
The Church is about idealism in an un-ideal world. I don't think there is anything wrong with that, even if bad people end up with authority on occasion. Great book: Paradise Reclaimed by Halldor Laxness (who won the nobel prize in lit for a different book). It's about some icelandic guy who does insane things including abandoning of his home and family in iceland in order to move to Utah and settle in Spanish Fork. The book compares and contrasts the great society that Mormons built in Utah with the miserable life in 19th century Iceland. I think the major point of the book is that while idealism is often viewed as pure insanity to outsiders, the greatest things can be achieved by idealistic, unrealistic, inspired people. |
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Maybe God will tell Gordon to kill his son.
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I would love a shake-up. Problem is the shake-up would shake out half the board from the church!
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