by anonwest 16 Replies latest watchtower medical
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=425267&in_page_id=1770
The basis for the Watchtower Society's blood doctrine is so weak - it saddens me that the the org are still letting people die over this issue.
Comments at the bottom brand this poor woman selfish. They don't realise that had the woman accepted blood, she would be shunned by rest of congregation. Interesting that her husband is a non-JW, although her parents have been JWs for 35 years.
AnonWest
I find it interesting that this is possibly the most tenacious belief among people who have left the organization on practically every other mental and emotional level.
Time and again, I've seen news articles regarding folks who have died refusing blood transfusions, saying they were JWs, when the article goes on to mention that they had a common-law spouse, or a child out of wedlock, or suffered gunshot wounds following an altercation with a jealous ex-partner and had been living with another partner, etc. In this article, they are clear that her husband is not a JW. Her parents would have joined the JWs when she was 9 years old - so surely she knew that marrying a non-JW was not something a JW in good standing would do.
It's almost as though these folks think that god will forgive them everything else that they do that the WTS brands as immoral, but accepting a blood transfusion is an unforgivable sin.
It's tragic in the worst way.
Hello anonwest, and welcome to the forum.
Thanks for posting this, though I think it may have been posted before.
Examples like this womans' will be lauded by other jws, but will, I suspect damage the overall reputation of the cult, at least at local level. As you point out, the cost of her accepting blood would be known to her and other jws, but not the public at large. They will most likely view this as a needless death brought about by a ludicrous policy enforced on members of the jws by their leadership, which is in effect what it is.
This sort of thing pisses me off. It isn't bad enough that they take away the "living" of a person's life by filling it with meaningless activities, shallow relationships, and guilt. No, they have to go a step further and set up rules that actually kill people.
Thanks for sharing the article, and welcome to JWD!
Dave
I wonder if any members of the Governing Body feel even the slightest twitch of guilt when the read articles like this, knowing they could put a stop to all this insanity with just one frigging article. Hell, they could even claim "new light from Jehovah"........
Mary,
What I wonder is whether New Light™ would suddenly come forth if one of the GB or top dog in the Legal Department needed to have blood transfusions.
Until it affects them personally, they are going to require JWs to martyr themselves on the WTS's altar.
'Faith' is an evil 'friend'.
It causes men to fly planes into buildings, blow themselves up in trains, and die rather than accept a basic lifesaving medical treatment.
Scully said: Mary, What I wonder is whether New Light™ would suddenly come forth if one of the GB or top dog in the Legal Department needed to have blood transfusions.
Ya, no kidding eh? Either that, or they'd just take a transfusion in secret, justify that they're "Christ's brothers" and surely He'll overlook a moment of weakness on their part, right?
My sister in law is a nurse practitioner, and I shared this story with her. She says given the situation, the doctor's seem to be covering their own butts and using her religion as a scap goat. Doctors make more mistakes than we know about and if they had given her a transfusion she would have die instantly. She works with a number of patients that do not accept blood because of religous and personal beliefs and therefore they use a nuber of substutes if a person needs a transfusion.
its seems that her refusal of a transfusion wasnt the significant factor in her death, therefore from what ive heard JWs can say that it was the operation that killed her and not her refusal of blood.
