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Shunning of heretics was ostensibly done to defend the honor of God. The fact that it increased the power of the people doing the shunning was surely viewed as
by haberman 8y ago
Shunning of heretics was ostensibly done to defend the honor of God. The fact that it increased the power of the people doing the shunning was surely viewed as a means to a noble and right end, just as today.
- toufiqbarhamov 8y agoShunning was almost certainly also a matter of not wanting to be tainted by association, which also can find parallels here.