originated from a poster at Reddit<\/a>. It\u2019s fascinating to say the least\u2026..if it\u2019s real<\/p>\nI say \u201cif it\u2019s real\u201d because, speaking from personal experience, this sort of thing is easy to fake something.<\/p>\n
In high school I may or may not have been an office worker my senior year and I may or may not have swiped official school letterhead and an official school envelope and then I may or may not have forged a letter from the principal and then I may or may not have sent it to my newly transferred friend informing him that he would not be allowed to graduate due to the fact that he didn\u2019t pass the make believe \u201cTennessee History Equivalency Exam\u201d.<\/p>\n
No may or may not about it, he bought it hook, line, and sinker.<\/p>\n
Sorry Mike.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I\u2019m not saying this is a \u201cTennessee History Equivalency Exam\u201d letter, but the reasons for excommunication mentioned in this letter seem a bit dubious to say the least.<\/p>\n
Apart from the simplistic appearance of the letter itself (No church letterhead? Also the blacked out name is really short, no full name for a formal letter? And the pastor doesn\u2019t use his last name in his signature for such an important correspondence?), there\u2019s the reason for excommunication.<\/p>\n
Apparently this person \u201csteadfastly refused to listen\u2026and worship on a regular basis\u201d with the church who sent the letter. So, \u201cas a result of [their] non-attendance at worship services or any functions of this body\u201d this person was excommunicated.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the rub, poor church\u00a0attendance\u00a0isn\u2019t something you normally get\u00a0excommunicated\u00a0for. It\u2019s something that eventually (usually this takes years) gets you removed from the church membership roll, but excommunicated is completely different. Which makes me a bit\u00a0suspicious.<\/p>\n
However, I did say \u201cnormally\u201d. If this is a super-fundamentalist church, then I suppose it is possible that in their minds this could be a justification for excommunication.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just that I would still expect a more \u201cserious\u201d infraction to be listed like \u201cusing a Bible other than the 1611 KJV\u201d, \u201caffirming the heresy of evolution\u201d or \u201callowing a woman to speak in church.\u201d<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know, what do you think? Is this for reals?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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