Zero religiosity (part 3) - Sign o' the Devil

Sign o' the Devil
Originally uploaded by markclaessen.

I did some more research, and found the following useful information:
1. The Holy See will accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Diner for online donations.
2. Useful information on excommunication on the New Advent website. Extracts follow:

Excommunication (Lat. ex, out of, and communio or communicatio, communion - exclusion from the communion), the principal and severest censure, is a medicinal, spiritual penalty that deprives the guilty Christian of all participation in the common blessings of ecclesiastical society. Being a penalty, it supposes guilt; and being the most serious penalty that the Church can inflict, it naturally supposes a very grave offence. It is also a medicinal rather than a vindictive penalty, being intended, not so much to punish the culprit, as to correct him and bring him back to the path of righteousness.
[...] it can affect only those who by baptism have been admitted to that society. [...] The excommunicated person, it is true, does not cease to be a Christian, since his baptism can never be effaced; [...]
The right to excommunicate is an immediate and necessary consequence of the fact that the Church is a society. Every society has the right to exclude and deprive of their rights and social advantages its unworthy or grievously culpable members, either temporarily or permanently. This right is necessary to every society in order that it may be well administered and survive.

Okay, conclusions:
1. The punishment is medicinal, I guess that means it's meant to cure you. Don't these people ever doubt they could just possibly be wrong?
2. Even if I were excommunicated, I would still be regarded a Christian. Goddangit! (Takes the Lord's name in vain.)
3. I qualify, by being a sinner and having been baptized, so that's good.
4. The church is a society, and is therefore bound by the law, which presumably means I have a right to renege my membership of said society.