http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/spissue/crss-si.asp
Four of the five authors are associated with the WTS German Branch.
Scientific journal on JWs during Nazism & Communism
by richard 8 Replies latest jw friends
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slimboyfat
Excellent. Thanks a lot for passing this on.
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JW_Researcher
Thank you for posting this.
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jaydee
Thanks so much for this
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hamilcarr
‘All Over the World Jehovah’s Witnesses are the Touchstone for the Existence of True Democracy’
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slimboyfat
Yes hamilcarr, James Beckford originated this idea, and it is meant as a comment on the relative freedom of the society in which Jehovah's Witnesses operate rather than as a comment about the quality of freedom that exists among Jehovah's Witnesses themselves.
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hamilcarr
Yes hamilcarr, James Beckford originated this idea, and it is meant as a comment on the relative freedom of the society in which Jehovah's Witnesses operate rather than as a comment about the quality of freedom that exists among Jehovah's Witnesses themselves.
I know. I think it's very contradictory though. Maybe I'm not a true democrat.
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slimboyfat
Would you have Jehovah's Witnesses banned? Seems a bit hardline to me. Despite drawbacks surely Jehovah's Witnesses are a net benefit to most people anyway.
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hamilcarr
Would you have Jehovah's Witnesses banned? Seems a bit hardline to me. Despite drawbacks surely Jehovah's Witnesses are a net benefit to most people anyway.
Not in the least. It shows, however, the heavy cost of loaded words like democracy, diversity, etc. Compulsory diversity leads to isolation.