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Many people are not disenchanted with the organization and its founding principles, but with their chapter and what they had to go through to become a member or go through to maintain membership. Further, people use their religious convictions to judge the actions of INDIVIDUALS within the organization, as opposed to choosing to associate themselves with those members who most closely follow the ideals of the founders---our organizations (even the smaller ones) are too huge to take the actions of some and disassociate ourselves with the whole.
People have been known to "depledge" themselves...which goes deeper than disassociating themselves---this means that they do not acknowledge that they were EVER a member and try their best to forget everything they've learned. I agree that once a member always a member TECHNICALLY, but now we have a bunch of people running around with some of the same knowledge of these organizations that we have, but not claiming the organization AT ALL. I think I'd rather someone not claim the org. AT ALL, as opposed to having 'nalia on their car, but being inactive and running the other way or not speaking when another member of the org. speaks to them.
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