What is excommunication?

Excommunication, also known as Disfellowshipment in some sects, is a form of censorship that religious officials can use to exclude people from the congregation. This practice is most common in Jewish-Christian religions, especially Catholicism, and is used as a very serious form of punishment for people who go against the doctrine of the Church. Among the more remarkable excommunications are the excommunication of Martin Luther and Elizabeth and England for their involvement in the Protestant Reformation. After excommunication, someone does not belong to the Church. He or she cannot pray with members of the congregation and the excommunicant is also forbidden to funeral in the sanctified soil. He is also forbidden to participate in religious ceremonies and social ostracization is common for people who have been excommunicated. Other Christian sects believe that once someone has been excommunicated, it is forever banned from the Church. In the case of Amishh, people are exposed to "avoidance" in which all members of the church community are completely rejected. As soon as he avoids, a former member of Amishh's congregationHe will never be allowed to talk to the practice of Amisha, including his own family.

Because excommunication is very serious and in some cases irreversible punishment, church officials tend to be careful about its use. In some beliefs, the Congregation may cooperate with the Emiral member of the Congregation in an effort to align him with the Church. Counseling and prayer sessions can be used to avoid excommunication. In order to excommunicate, solid evidence must be submitted to confirm that the individual should be truly excluded from the Church.

For many members of Christian sects, excommunication is not just about rejecting participation in church ceremonies. It is also a punishment that will live after death, because many denominations believe that people who have been rejected by the Church will face punishment in hell. A formal conviction of excomment would stop someone from entering heaven, whether it was the excomor not a decent person, and that is the fate that excommunication consider deeply worrying.