Leave Your Pastor - Андрей Викторович Шибанов

churches operate in a similar manner. The difference is that modern churches are acting separately from the government, so the church leaders are unable to kill their opponents anymore like it used to happen at the time of Inquisition when Catholic Church had an extremely high influence on the state, being a government itself.

Church leaders disfellowship others for a variety of reasons: sin, disobedience to church leaders, marriage to a non-member, showing not enough commitment to the organization and many other. Clergy request ushers or building security staff to restrict access to the meeting place for the disfellowshipped one. They command ushers or building security staff, “We don’t welcome him.” Church leaders might call the police and request them to arrest the disfellowshipped one charging him or her with trespassing the private territory – the church building. Those who choose an online platform to speak against church leaders or their doctrine might be charged with social media violations or slander.

When church leaders disfellowship those in sin, they often quote the below scripture:

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler – not even to eat with such a one. -1 Corinthians 5:11

The above scripture does not speak of oppression, but just not to associate. Some of the disfellowshipped ones even commit suicide due to the feeling of being rejected by a family which is not a family at all.

Amber Sawyer was just 8 years old when her sister committed suicide. She was watching cartoons on the living room floor of her Mississippi home when she heard the bang. She went to investigate and found her 21-year-old sister, Donna, dead in her bed. She had shot herself in the heart with their father’s hunting rifle weeks after being excommunicated by their church for getting engaged to a non-church member. On this picture, Amber pointing on the photo of her singer Donna.

Another church member Kaye was in her early 20s when her friend committed suicide after being disfellowshipped for getting pregnant out of wedlock. The woman was 20 years old and seven months pregnant at the time. Kaye said her friend tried to get back into the church, but the elders told her, “No, you need more time. You’re not qualified to come back.“ (Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses break silence on shunning: 'My mother treats me like I'm dead', 2020)

When church leaders disfellowship some of their opponents, they quote the below scripture:

As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned. – Titus 3:10-11

Church leaders, just like Catholic Inquisition, are twisting the same Scripture for heresy-hunting. Speaking the truth is not a sin of division, just like church leaders, pastors and priests claim, and by doing so they reveal their love for falsehood. You must be aware of church leaders and some others among you who are ignorant and lawless. They twist the Scriptures to achieve their wicked goals:

And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You, therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your stability. – 2 Peter 3:15-17

Do not let these ignorant people carry you away by their demonic arguments. Disfellowshipping is a false practice used by these greedy for power church leaders to eliminate their opponents, to protect their organization.

Even before the creation of Catholic Church organization in the fourth century and other so-called churches later, the form of excommunication has already been practiced. The chief priests and Pharisees have arrested Jesus Christ and executed him. They said:

Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish." – John 11:50

So with the church leaders and their followers, their foolishness will be known to many.

“Church family” exposed

…for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. – 1 John 4:20

Jesus Christ and apostles taught you that no one can love God if he does not love his brothers in Christ! Your church leaders mislead you by saying that the members of your organization are one big family in Christ: Catholic family, Baptist family, ICOC family, etc. There are many disciples of Jesus Christ whom you do not know just because they do not belong to your organization, and they still do the will of God, but your church leaders instruct you to ignore them.

Don’t you know that even Satanists love members of their demonic organizations? For example, ex-satan worshipper and now a fellow disciple of Christ by the name John Ramirez writes in his book “Out of Devil’s Cauldron” that when he was in devil-worshipping, he had a close relationship with Satan whom he called daddy. He used to obey Satan and do all the magic rituals required from him while being a priest of dark forces. He said that he had all the love and acceptance within his organization, but it was a demonic and superficial love which was not love at all. John continues to expose the dark world he used to live in so that all disciples of Christ will know how the devil operates and repent from their demonic practices. Similarly, you love and accept only members of your religious organization.

You must love all the disciples of Christ. Start meeting believers in your town and build a friendship with them based on the teaching of Christ, not the