by Dogpatch 12 Replies latest jw friends
I remember the Elders in my hall saying this was just the beginning. And shortly after 9/11 the "Great Beast" would start by getting rid of religious freedom in the US and elsewhere . . . but apparently the UN didn't get the memo. Oh well.
I'm sure no one remembers now.
I feel badly for Glen and his family but am glad they escaped. Religion = child abuse. The Bible is not a book for children.
One startling experience after we left was the relief my son felt when I told him that we would have gone against WT policy and permit a blood transfusion if needed. That's a cruel notion to hold over a child - I had never thought how he truly felt at the time we made him carry his blood card.
As a teenager, I did not agree with the
WTS 'no blood' policy. I, too, lived in fear that I may need one and be
refused it by my parents. It seemed to me that my concerns were never
considered. My parents never asked me how I felt about this. I think this is typical
in JW families. I did voice my disbelief to my parents about this policy. I told them
that if a blood transfusion was the only way to save a life then that is
what should be done. So they knew how I felt about it. This policy also contradicted their claim that all
people have the chance to be JWs. Not so for anyone requiring blood
products to survive. Logic isn't one of this group's strong points.
Everyone seems to have their different trigger points. While Glen doesn't think he would have put this together, as a teenager I did. I could not fathom why God would kill people such as nurses, doctors, teachers, firemen, farmers, etc... all the people in the world that do things to help and feed others just because they were not a JW. I had done the math on their claim to be preaching to all the inhabitted Earth and I knew that was a farce. I also knew non-JWs who were awesome folks. Again, logic does not work well with the dogma of most religions and WTS is no exception.Sadly, I don't think I would have put 2 and 2 together and see that the God of the JWs had something Evil planned for 99.9% of the whole world's population. I don't think I could have seen then that a God that would kill people the way the terrorists did on a global scale could be Evil. I don't think that I could have seen that the worship of such a God was Evil, that living in a world perpetrated by such a God would be Evil - that Armageddon (per JW lore) would be Evil.
Coded Logic said: I remember the Elders in my hall saying this was just the beginning. And shortly after 9/11 the "Great Beast" would start by getting rid of religious freedom in the US and elsewhere . . . but apparently the UN didn't get the memo. Oh well.
I'm sure no one remembers now.
