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Not all Christians get along (not even all dogs get along, but at least they don’t commit genocide), & those that commit vile acts are not excommunicated (a lot are praised). A Christian in death row can repent before being executed & ask the priest for a prayer, & for God’s forgiveness. Similarly anarchists can condemn & denounce other anarchists & their acts without necessarily that implying that they’re “excommunicated” from anarchy as long as they did not order or obey, coerce or oppress. Following those bare principles still leave plenty of room for evil & fucking up badly, & we don’t have to st& by those actions, but recognize that anarchy, that the real world under any circumstance, allows for these terrible, horrible & tragic things to happen, for people to actively do them to each other. Not all good anarchists are good people, not all bad anarchists are bad people. Are most church-going law-abiding citizens good people? Are they anarchists? What’s more important: to be good or to be anarchist? Each will tell.

Some people make clearer demarcations against Christian morality and liberal humanism, such as Gustavo Rodríguez expresses in this interview and elsewhere: https://anarchistnews.org/content/interview-w-gustavo-rodr%C3%ADguez-pt1