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[edit] Recent changes to opening paragraph

Two good-faith edits have been made by anonymous users. I think what they add is dubious.

"Though the term is relatively new, it is not a new concept." - not clear what this adds. It could be said about just about anything.

"The practice of disconnection is a form of religious shunning, and the most well known form is excommunication, by the Roman Catholic Church. It is unknown whether this is what inspired the practice." - material after "shunning" was added. Disconnection in Scientology is fundamentally different from excommunication: the latter involves separation from the Church and from some religious practices, but Disconnection is severance of communication with believers, not just with the organisation itself. to have this parallel drawn in the first paragraph is not going to help, or at worst will mislead, someone trying to understand what the Disconnection policy is. If the link to shunning is left in, then it will lead readers to information about excommunication anyway. MartinPoulter (talk) 22:35, 29 March 2008 (UTC)