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Podcast: shunned
Episode: Episode Sixty Six - The TRUTH About Disfellowshipping
Description: Jehovah's Witnesses have a practice called "disfellowshipping" that at one point long ago even Watchtower estimated at costing them 70,000 members per year. Tens of thousands of people are cast out of their group and shunned to an extreme degree. They tell their members that the practice is one of love. Is that true? They also have a narrative about shunning that they tell the general public through the FAQ section of their official website. Are those answers true? A letter was leaked on Twitter from a JW circuit overseer. Per direction from the organization he was looking...