hey buddy, at 1st the christians had to group up with eachother to make sure that they were believing the same thing and such. jesus invented the church, "on this rock i will build my church" sound a bit familiar??


2nd, the church made the bible. the church is the only reason for christianity being preserved and not destroyed.

also, the pope exomunicates leaders becuase they are not upholding the truth of the church. if they are being a bad influence, then why not make them no longer an influence.

e.g- you have 2 brothers, one has bad values and the other has good ones. u are grouped up more with the one with bad values. wouldnt your mom want to make sure you dont get embroiled into the bad influence, and if so she ould have to make measures.

western culture is so lax when it comes to reliougouse movements, becuase you can basically institute anything you want and make urself feel better unlike in the muslim world where unrest is most prone to occur, so western powers and such are in no manner in danger of some exomunication reprucusions directed in violence. maybe in the old days that happened, but not now, atleast in the west.