The government's actions against Bethany Hughes are just as convoluted and immoral as the Watch Tower Society's. The Watch Tower says blood is sacred because it represents life. Life is not as sacred as blood because blood is sacred because it represents life.
The government says life is not more important than the freedom of religious groups to do business because the government says freedom for the business of religion is more important than life.
I say it's a legal and quiet genocide.
Calgary Dad Wins Partial Court Victory in Daughter's Death
by Dogpatch 55 Replies latest jw friends
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garybuss
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Gill
Gary - It's amazing how both 'religion' and 'government' miss the whole point of their very existence and even the existence of a law abiding civilisation.
Government and religion are there to protect LIFE. However, they both end up protecting concepts that fail to protect life.
Government ended up protecting a 'religious view point'.
Religion ended up protecting a concept that simply represented life.
Bethany Hughes was a victim of two confused institutions who just some how lost their way when in reality it was all very simple.
If Bethany's life in the final instance could not be saved then she should have been given every possible treatment to make her life more comfortable.
How many JWs are denied this right?
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society has become a law unto itself.
It, unlike any other institution, is permitted to demand the lives of its members and punish them if they do not surrender their lives and those of their loved ones and even their children.
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is the modern day equivilant of Molek.
Jehovah's Witnesses parents have to wait for the government to leap into action to save their very own children from the 'fire' of the WTBTS' altar.
But who steps in to save the mature minors and the adults? No one!
When did the world decide that was all right?
When did the world turn and look the other way as people died for a misinterpreted piece of ancient text?
Having laid on that altar myself and survived by the skin of my teeth, I now know that what the WTBTS demands is wrong, evil and should be illegal!
What fears Bethany Hughes had while she suffered we will never know, but she should not have had them and they should not have been fears brought on by the misrepresentations of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and she should not have been afraid of her doctors, her lawyers and most of all her treatment.
Her treatments should have given her hope for survival and hope for a future not fear that she had been violated and was now unclean before the eyes of her very unloving God.
The WTBTS has brought catastrophe to the lives of countless people.
It is time the WTBTS had catastrophe brought down on its own head for its own death dealing lies.
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Quandry
Dogpatch
Thanks for keeping us updated with this news story.
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garybuss
The Jehovah's Witnesses put the seriously ill victims in the worst possible double bind. The victims have choices but no good choices. One choice is they refuse treatment and die. Another choice is they can take treatment but it's a sin and God will murder them at Armageddon or not re-create them in a facsimile body in paradise.
Even if the Witness is willing to die by being murdered by God, they still get the prospect of possibly being shunned by the other group members if they accept blood medical treatment.
The Watch Tower attorneys are not in action at bedsides to force the doctor's to comply, they're there to represent the Society and to see that the Witness doesn't receive treatment. They're seeking martyrs by opportunity and coercion with the government's blessings.
Then there's the guilt and the shame the victim has to deal with by being forced to "sin" by the courts by being ordered to receive blood medical support. That's the real crime. And on top of everything to have to watch the family disintegrate right in the middle of it all. Awful!
The governments are just plain wrong in allowing a business called religion to assist people in suicides.
There are standards and ethical requirements for other businesses, why not for religion when religion steps over the faith and worship line and gets into business and medicine and people get hurt?
How about it lawmakers! Anybody got the guts to look at this? We've got fraud, misrepresentation of facts, mismanagement, deception, and non-disclosure and people are dying and the government is looking the other way or even helping. Why? It's illegal to misrepresent, to use deception and trickery, and to coerce victims in all of the sales and service industries, why not religion?
Why can't a religion be held to at least the same standards as a real estate business or a home improvement contractor? I think when an attorney shows up at a hospital bedside we are out of the religious area of faith, morals, and worship. It's time to redefine "religious". -
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bttt
Great news. Thanks for the heads up on this.
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Gill
I don't understand still, and found it strange when it began, that the WTBTS formed Hospital Liason Committees to 'assist' JWs in dealing with their doctors.
Why do hospitals allow people to interfere and direct their patient's treatment?
Surely when making a life and death decision a patient still has the right to change their minds. How does this happen if there is an authority figure there not permitting any change in that person's choices?
One of the easiest steps to be taken would be to not allow HLC members any where near a patient.
Are there any other 'religions' that use lawyers and unqualified Elders to tie the hands of highly trained doctors?
If not, then why is the WTBTS permitted to get away with it?