Shun?

 I sat and watched a piece off CNN yesterday.....a Don Lemon segment...mostly amazed at Don's 'advice'.

So he more or less suggested that the best way to handle the non-vax crowd....was to shun them.  Yes....shun.

I hit mute at this point.  It was one of those moments where you need to reflect up the 'advice'.

Shun business is not new....it's been around for over 2,000 years.  It gets brought up in Titus 3:9-11, and over in Matthew 18 (not that I'm that much of a Bible reader).  One curious thing....this shunning stuff didn't get mentioned by the Jews in the Old Testament.....it only gets dragged out by Christians in the New Testament.

The Catholic crowd?  Well....they wrote up some 'regulations' and tended to expect you to shun anyone kicked out of the church.  The non-kicked-out-but-not-Catholic crowd weren't included in this business.

Amish folks do shunning but mostly for those who left the 'sect'.

Muslims do a lot of shunning (Al-Wala wal-Bara).  Anyone who is not in the extreme version of the religion....is to be shunned, period.

Around a decade ago, the Russians wrote up a law (Dima Yakovlev law) that said because Americans were so 'screwed-up'....it was legal on various aspects to shun them.  

To be honest, I've substituted 'mute' for 'shun', and it works the same way.  

As for where Don Lemon got this idea?  It would be curious for him to explain how it popped into his head.