Double standards

behemot

Did you ever notice how double standard leads JWs’ life?

If someone who’s joining the JWs gets shunned by his family/friends, that’s “persecution”, if a JW who joins another religion (or does anything outside the rules) gets the same treatment that’s “loving discipline”.

If they are invited to another religion’s ceremony they won’t go, viewing their participation as “sharing in false worship”; yet at the same time they keep on inviting members of other faiths to share in their own celebrations (memorial) and expect them to show up and participate.

They fight worldwide, even in courts, for freedom of speech, yet they don’t grant such freedom to their own members.

They encourage people to question and closely scrutinize their beliefs; but they are discouraged to do the same themselves.

They expect people to read and study their publications; yet they won’t touch other faiths’ literature with a stick for fear of getting polluted.

Other examples?

Behemot

smiddy

You`ve just touched the tip of the iceberg with their double standards behemot,it goes on and on.

passwordprotected

They condemn the Catholic Church for it's wealth and properties, knowing full well how much wealth and property they have.

They point to Christian denominations and say, "they believe the trinity, they aren't from God, because the trinity isn't in the Bible", while they churn out magazines about "paradise earth", "great crowd of other sheep" and "Jesus is Michael".

JWdaughter

As to their wealth and property, do you think that there was enough 'organization' when the original church was only 100 years old to have amassed the kind of capital the WT has? What 'organization' did they have? None, it was organizing the church that well and truly screwed things up, IMO:) When they tried to get them all together and forced agreement on them, that is when the real trouble started, and when the church started down the road of organizational corruption.

Homerovah the Almighty

The truth is only the truth if it comes from them only, its always been a self serving agenda with them that creates support and keeps it

in place. Double standards, hypocrisy, power, corruption its all there.

Thats the true face of religion once its viewed at all angles.

WTWizard

They bashed the crap out of the Catholic church during the past 10 years or so about their pedophile problem. Recently, the Catholic church has admitted that they have been having a problem on a widespread basis, and are trying to clean up the mess. At the same time, the witlesses have had their own pedophile problem, and they make great efforts to sweep it under the rug. They even lie in court to hide their pedophile issues--unlike the Catholic church, which eventually came clean about it.

civicsi00

It's OK for you to lie, as long as it benefits the Organization or advances "theocratic agendas". But "worldly people" lie because they descend from their father, Satan, the original liar.

jamiebowers

A jw wife gets little or no support if she wishes to leave an abusive husband, but breaking up marriags for "spiritual endangerment" is widely practiced.

Awakened at Gilead

Captives of a Concept shows in detail the catch phrases that the WTS uses to define itself as a true religion that makes mistakes as different from false religion that makes mistakes.

kurtbethel

I have noticed the doublemindedness in many ways. I brought up something embarrassing about the WT to the study conductor and he said it was not needed to look back that far. So I showed him in the Revelation ClimaXXX (spiritual pornography) book that there was an account of what the Christians were doing in 1914-1919. I told him I would use the WT standard and only go as far back in WT history as the WT goes in Christian history.

Some time back he mentioned about oral sex being mentioned on TV in front of children. Hoo boy! WT of October 2007 has a study article that mentions oral sex. I bet those children that got to hear about it were thrilled, or puzzled.

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