by Seeker4 22 Replies latest jw friends
AuldSoul,
I'm still laughing about that " " explanation! Too funny. I'm often an idiot, as some of those on this post will testify.
I've long ago found peace, I'm just a bit passionate about this issue and article. As someone wrote earlier, this post and response is not particularly like me. If you don't at some time catch on fire about something - how do you know you're alive??
And Barbara, again, thank you.
S4
Can understand your distress s4, especially when it is completely clear that the org is growing at a consistent rate when traditional churches are fading away. We know why they're growing though, fundamentalism (Christian) is attractive to people during time of rapid change and turmoil. Gives people a reference point to guide their lives, when traditional moral structures fall by the wayside, and a world of individualism takes its place. It's just very difficult to make a solid point to people attracted to the org/or who are currently in the org, when you go for the throat. Collectively as fundamentalists they will stand together to insulate their beliefs from outright criticism or from accepting a challenge to their beliefs through science and rational thinking. The only way I see that when can go about things is to approach it more subtley. I'm sure you know yourself that your faith began to come unstuck gradually when some small seeds were planted. Most people on the outside see the organisation for what it really is. frog x
Yes, there is a need to subtly question the WTS and JWs. Not so easy to do.
S4
