Hi everyone I'm LtCmd.Lore. I'm 16 years old and have been raised as a Jehovah’s Witness. I'm currently considered a very spiritual brother, and have an assignment comming up for the memorial. But I realized it was all a bunch of crap last year at some time. It started when I realized that I didn't want to live in their idea of 'paradise' I don't like being one with nature, I hate gardening and taking care of animals, I'm not into sports and my best form of entertainment is video games, and my hobby is computer programming, my favorite food is chicken and my favorite drink is Pepsi... And in the new world everything would be totally different. I would have to garden or take care of animals, the greatest form of entertainment would be sports and nature, every video game in existence has something 'wrong' with it. (Mario has magic. And heck, even Bambi has violence.) So video games would be out. There's a 95% chance I wouldn't have any meat. And who's going to make Pepsi without making pollution?
So I then decided that I should look into it further. And everything started to stop making sense all of a sudden.
For one thing: Why would Jehovah a loving, just, wise and powerful god kill thousand of innocent animals and CHILDREN in a worldwide flood. Why would he make Noah work for over a hundred years on an ark, and then have to take care of over 20,000 animals every day for a year. When he could, being all powerful, just snap his fingers and get rid of just the bad people. Not to mention all the scientific illogicalities of it.
Second: If the reason we suffer is to prove that humans are not better off without god, than the only way to prove otherwise is to leave humans alone. But instead of just letting us go he cuts our lifetime down to 70 years, he cursed the animals to be carnivorous, he confused our language, and cut back 1000 years of progress by making us start all over after the flood. How is satan supposed to be proved wrong if the human race suffers from godly sabotage every millennium?
I made my decision that I would leave the organization when I move out of home. I decided to wait because I don't want to get shunned by my family while I still have to live with them. I feel weird though that I'm the only one who see's this stuff and my family would never even question it.
I'm not even going to try to convince them otherwise, because they'll just assume I'm going through a 'faze' since I'm a 16 year old boy.
I found this site around January because I was looking for intelligent arguments for when I give them the good news. It's nice to see people who weren't afraid to leave, and yet aren't 'bad association' or possessed.
I'm looking for friends who understand my logic and aren't going to shun me in a few years.
Well that was long. But I'm glad to be here.