The futuristic India in Ian McDonald's River of Gods would be marvelous enough with its technological society, one where the sentience of artificial intelligence is limited by a law called the Hamilton Acts; where illegal software houses circumvent the law; where a government agency known as The Ministry "excommunicates" rogue AIs from this world; where virtual reality is the order of the day; where popular soap operas feature computer-generated characters played by computer-generated actors; where advanced medical procedures can turn you into a genderless "nute" or genetic engineering can give you a disease free, slow-aging Brahmin child; where power is generated underneath sidewalks that harness the energy of footsteps; where even greater amounts of energy can be realized from the potential difference between two universes that exist at different ground states; and where an alien artifact is found in space that holds untold mysteries. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I say, unless one excommunicates the vicious freaks and opposes them at every opportunity? ❋ Unknown (2010)
About the only thing that excommunicates him from leftism is raging homophobia. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the mainstream Mormon church, abandoned the practice in 1890 as a condition of Utah's statehood and excommunicates members who engage in the practice. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Strictly speaking, he who offends against the unity of the Church excommunicates himself. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A priest who ordains a woman excommunicates himself through his actions. ❋ Unknown (2010)
While the Church excommunicates the Communists, they ask the priests and sisters to comply with the government. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Any Catholic who promotes abortion commits a grave sin against the Law of God and excommunicates himself/herself. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The church has systematically opposed ALL rights for gays wherever it could, excommunicates people for being gay, has a long history of emotionally, mentally and physically abusing gays. ❋ Unknown (2009)
So, yes, a woman who decides to have an abortion, or a person who helps someone have an abortion, excommunicates themselves. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Why Cherie dear might go as far as requesting that the Vatican excommunicates our Damian! ❋ Unknown (2009)
Any Catholic with an ounce of catechesis knows he or she excommunicates him/herself by doing so. ❋ Unknown (2009)
How many more books like this before the Orthodox community excommunicates you? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Incidentally, someone said that if the Pope excommunicates you, you are still a Catholic. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Indeed, they craftily investigated our condition and strength and reported everything to those excommunicates who were shut up in the city. ❋ Unknown (2009)