After reading "Ex-Born Again" websites, they say many things like ex-jws

booker-t

I was curious the other day and just wanted to see what Born-Again Christians that left the fold had to say about their former churches and religions. It was amazing to see that they say many similar things like ex-jws. Many of these people were ex-pastors, ex-ministers, ex-missionaries. I think that JW's and Born-Agains need to stop being at war with one another and realize the damage they are causing so many innocent people especially children.

bigmouth

I was talking to a nurse who visits me from time to time last week about my experience as a JW. She had been a member of the New Life church for a couple of years. They are a Pentecostal type. She couldn't speak in tongues or be healed from an illness and so got dropped like a hot cake for not fitting in.
She could relate to many of the things I told her about Witnesses.

Junction-Guy

I have attended kingdom halls and I have attended born again churches, and the difference is like light and day. If I had my choice I would have much rather been raised born again-no doubt about it. At least I would have been able to play sports,date, go to college, celebrate holidays, and the list goes on and on.

Why are you so against born again religions?

Shazard

Strange that you mark "born-again" as one big group with one center like JW. "Born-Again" is very longstretching term!

Pahpa

There is a lot of fanaticism in many of the smaller fundamentalist religious groups. My cousin who is a "born again" Chrisitian has joined and left several of them because they weren't accepting some of her views with regard to doctrine. Although they didn't excommunicate her, they were cool and indifferent. (Similar to the old JW policy of "marking"?) She felt uncomfortable until she found a group that was accepting her for what she was....not for what she believed.

drew sagan

I think the issue here is religious fanaticism and the extremes that followers of it will go to. I also agree that 'born again' is quite a broader term that selecting a denomination like JWs. While similarties in behavior can be seen in particuliar parts of the 'born again / evangelicial' movement when compared to the JWs, I think this is as far as it goes. The Born Again movement is so much more diverse and complex than the basic 'rank and file' order of the JWs. To make a proposition like 'Born Agains are just like JWs' would be incorrect.

nvrgnbk

I think that JW's and Born-Agains need to stop being at war with one another and realize the damage they are causing so many innocent people especially children.

Though I agree with some of the other posters about exercising care in making generalizations, I think you're on the right track with this Booker-T. Human beings getting together to discuss and heal from similar, shared, painful experiences is a good thing.

Nvr