Hi alek and welcome!
FRESH OFF THE PRESS.... 9/1/06 WT "When a Loved One Leaves Jeh."
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Joe Grundy
Can someone please provide the address of WTBTS HQ (I know it's in Brooklyn). I feel moved to write to them about this article. Thanks.
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Joe Grundy
bttt
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serendipity
Hi Joe:
If you need any of the branch addresses, they are here: http://www.watchtower.org/how_to_contact_us.htm
Watch Tower
25 Columbia Heights
Brooklyn, NY 11201-2483.
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Joe Grundy
Thanks. This is my draft letter:
[personal address edited by request] Watchtower Bible & Tract Society 25 Columbia Heights Brooklyn New York 11201-2483 NY, USA. 29 July 2006 Dear Sir/Madam I have for some time been interested in your teachings and doctrines and have read a number of your publications. I have found them challenging and thought-provoking. I have just seen your ‘Watchtower’ magzine dated 1 st September 2006, and the article entitled ‘When a Loved One Leaves Jehovah’. I want to ask about some issues which this article raises and hope that you will be able to clarify some points for me. I should explain that I was a police officer for thirty years and have experienced the dreadful problems which can be caused by ‘broken families’. It seems to me from this article that the author equates leaving the religion of ‘Jehovah’s Witnessess’ with ceasing a relationship with God and/or Jesus. I am uncertain as to whether this was the intention of the article or merely an unfortunate implication. Perhaps you could clarify this. The overall impression I gained from the article is that if someone leaves the religion they are effectively isolated from their family. I am sure that this is not correct within your teachings, and that no doubt you will wish to correct this. It may well be that I have simply misunderstood. You will no doubt agree that particularly in these days of increasing numbers of ‘broken homes’ the love and example of a united family and the exhibition of unconditional love is a supremely important matter, and one which is fully in accordance with Biblical principles. I must confess to having been concerned by the implications of this article. I appreciate, of course, that sometimes articles may be included in publications which fail to reflect the true principles intended. This may be what has happened here, but I would in any case be grateful for clarification. You may wish to respond to my enquiry by e-mail: my address is [edited] . Yours faithfully [name edited by request]
I am open to suggestions for amendment.
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steve2
At first gloss, the article has a superficial appearance of compassion with lots of examples of goody-two-shoes JWs boo-hooing all over the place about their wayward loved ones. But, oh my, how it shovels on the familiar rigid JW self-righteousness.
I'm sure the article will shore up the "shakey" faith of JW parents whose egos smart over their sinful ex-JW children. It'll probably also scoop back up a few "guilty" ex-JWs who bother to read it.
Hopefully, though, any reader - JW or not - with even a few active brain cells will see the intent of the article for what it is: Disgusting, self-serving emotional blackmail.
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Joe Grundy
I'll be going out for my 'sunrise' walk in about 45 minutes (0600 local) and had planned to print and mail this en-route.
Any suggestions?
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Joe Grundy
bttt (again - sorry!)
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Cabin in the woods
EXEMPLARY!!!
CAB
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