by Gopher 36 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
I guess you have looked at the other thread, Shawn/jwactivist. I suspect the sponsors could be somehow affiliated with the JWs, at least in a possible business sense, but it's just a suspiscion on my part. Who would want to sponsor an article promoting a cult religion.
BTW, that area of my state is the loveliest place! Wish I were there now!
I think this is just super spin control. They realize that people are hitting the internet to find info. To try and cut them off at the pass they are having these press releses and community invites. They figure if they can put a good face on themselves maybe they can warn them about the 'lies' they will find on the internet.
Are newspapers supposed to give facts or spread propaganda?
depends on who owns and/or sponsors the newspaper . . .
My letter was printed by the paper; they even put their own caption to it. A copy can be found here:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/143701/1.ashx
Sylvia
Oops! Had to re-write because I did not sign the first one:
Dear Editor:
As a person "born and raised" as a Jehovah's Witness, I must take issue with the wording at the end of Johnson's article regarding their "loving arrangement" called disfellowshipping.
Disfellowshipping is often permanant for members and it is done for a variety of petty reasons that induces members and elders to unnecessarily harass each other in a highly-controlling setting.
This religion operates strictly by cult-like rules and programming that begins with lovebombing and often ends in disfellowshipping, leading to loss of long-time friendships, business associates, and related divorces and broken families, often all simply the result of a personality difference, or a difference of opinion; and sometimes disfellowshipping is the consequence of mental illness, exacerbated by the cult's Armageddon-fixation.
You can meet many of the people who have experienced this as a direct result of either being reared as Jehovah's Witnesses, (or having converted during a vulnerable time in their lives during which they were love-bombed), at a number of ex-jehovah's witness websites and support groups if you care to Google it up online.
I highly recommend that the innocent advertisers associated as "sponsors" next to your JW apologetic article remove their ad from that page.
They must not realize their images are being associated with a nasty cult religion.
Sincerely,
Madame Quixote
A copy of that was also sent to the innocent sponsor whose ads appear next to the apologetics article:
I would like to encourage you to consider my suggestion at the end of this
Letter to the Editor, regarding an article about the cult religion known as Jehovah's Witnesses. Your company ads are prominently displayed next to what many regard as an apologetics' article for a cult religion. Just thought you'd like to know, because the JWs have recently settled an enormous sex abuse case and demanded "gag" orders for the victims as part of the settlement terms. I can't help but wonder why any business would want to be associated as a sponsor next to an article that is an apologetic for a cult religion involved in the cover-up of its widespread pedophilia. I also noticed that a local Waynesville man has recently pled guilty to sex abuse of a 12-year old, and that the family and victim are apparently not cooperating with the prosecutors. This make me wonder . . . and I also see your ad as a sponsor next to that.
