Any religious authority asking to turn your back on your partner, family, friends, acquaintances, merely because they don’t have-/ or dropped adherence, is a despicable, mean-spirited, bigoted, sick organisation, motivated by whatever, except love, kindness or virtue.
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"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, he cannot be my disciple."
Jesus of Nazareth, Luke, 14:26