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Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit by swat535 on Friday June 17, 2022 @11:03AM (#31779239)
Where did you hear such a thing?

As a Catholic, I regularly attend Church and we have many people (even entire families) who either join after a long period of being away or leave the faith all together. We miss them of course but no one sends them death treats.

Additionally, many people move between denominations.

Perhaps you are confusing those with real cults such as: Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism ?

I can't however speak for how they operate as I haven't studied them or been involved.

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Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit by rsynnott on Friday June 17, 2022 @11:55AM (#31780072)
The Catholic Church in a number of European countries stopped processing requests to formally deregister people, due to mass departures after the sexual abuse revelations, which may be what they're referring to.

For instance, https://www.notme.ie

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Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit by olddustytrail on Friday June 17, 2022 @12:39PM (#31780795)
Did the Catholic church in Ireland have a register of people who were Catholic? Which other countries have this?

I've just never heard of such a thing.

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Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit by rsynnott on Friday June 17, 2022 @01:59PM (#31781926)
Generally record-keeping would be on a parish level, but yes, it's normal for Catholic parishes to keep records on this.
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Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit by olddustytrail on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:21PM (#31783766)
Are you referring to a record of Christenings? Like every church everywhere would keep?
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