IV.   Faith

Apostasy is a fictional term applied to a formal disaffiliation, abandonment, or renunciation between a Person and their faith and belief of a particular Religion or Cult.

By definition only a person who has been accepted through initiation into the faith of a particular Religion or Cult and who upon the age of majority has knowingly and willingly abandoned and renounced their faith and beliefs can be accused of being an Apostate.

The absence of a code of criminal acts to formally define Apostasy as well as the absence of any judicial procedures to adjudicate such a matter renders the legality of any accusation of Apostasy null and void.

By definition, a person who has rejected their membership and disassociated themselves from a particular Religion or Cult also rejects its laws and jurisdiction over them.

Any Religion or Cult that seeks to impose its laws concerning Apostasy upon a person who has rejected their membership and disassociated themselves from the Religion or Cult is itself guilty of a supreme ecclesiastical dishonor and offence against the living law. Therefore any such rule, statute, edict or dogma is immediately rendered null and void.

Any statutes, edicts or statements of a Religion or Cult that permits penalties including death, torture or imprisonment for Apostasy are an abomination against the Divine Creator and all the spirits of Heaven and are therefore null and void from the beginning.

Any person that carries out a sentence against an accused Apostate involving death, torture or imprisonment is guilty of a supreme ecclesiastical dishonor against all of Heaven and the Divine Creator and automatically loses all power, right and authority of office.

Any Religion or Cult that permits or does not condemn its followers imposing sentences against Apostates that involve physical or mental abuse is itself guilty of a supreme ecclesiastical dishonor against all of Heaven and the Divine Creator and immediately loses all spiritual authority and rights until such behaviour is banned, forbidden and not permitted to be revived.