Unusual "Experience" at the DC yesterday - Apostasy & Honor Killing

by Ultimate Reality 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  Ultimate Reality

  During the concluding part on Sunday's DC at the Stanley Theater, a missionary was interviewed and asked to give an encouraging experience from his assignment in an African country.

  He started off by saying his "experience was bitter-sweet". It was about a woman in her mid-20's that became a witness. But she was a muslim and her mother had her hunted down and murdered as an honor-killing. Why? Because, as the missionary stated, "she converted to Christianity and they [Muslims] view that as apostasy."

  He then tried to connect that horrific story to the story of another unrelated man that was muslim and eventually got baptized. I found it quite unusual and wondered if this brother went off-script by mentioning this murdered sister.

  Especially in light of:

  “We are not living today among theocratic nations where such members of our fleshly family relationship could be exterminated for apostasy from God and his theocratic organization…”

  “Being limited by the laws of the worldly nation in which we live and also by the laws of God through Jesus Christ, we can take action against apostates only to a certain extent…” – Watchtower, November 15, 1952
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  jeeprube

  They would kill us in a second if they could.
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  anewme

  Yes I believe the Theocratic Nation would kill us if it were legal to do so. Bittersweet they would say also.
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  WTWizard

  And, if they have their way, they would seize the government. At which point they would make the laws they want, including stoning to death anyone that so much as questions a doctrine. It would not be necessary to trash the whole religion--even if someone thought it was a generally sound religion (which it is not) but with a few minor flaws, and tried to correct the minor flaws to make it even better, they would still get stoned to death.

  And that's only half the problem. Everything you do is what the hounders or the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger tells you. You own nothing--it all belongs to the Washtowel Corporation. Knowledge is what the official doctrine states--no need to update it, since there is no world to have to defend it against (so they can totally ban fun, school, blood, and whatever they feel like without having a fight with the nations). In effect, we would have the Second Dark Ages--anyone that doesn't think they are looking for a way to start the Second Dark Ages is not familiar with the way that religion operates.
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  Ultimate Reality

  Personally, I think the missionary went off-script and made a point about apostasy. He could have just said that she was killed for changing her religion. Perhaps he isn't fully on-board.
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  villabolo

  I was told at my judicial commitee that if I were in Israel I would be stoned.

  villabolo
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  Cadellin

  Villa: Yikes! How's that for making you want to stay with such a warm, loving organization????
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  Mary

  It never fails to amaze me how Witnesses get their nose out of joint whenever someone from another faith is either shunned, or in this case, executed for "apostasy", when they join The Borg. They sit there and shake their heads, click their tongues or roll their eyes at the heartlessness of family members who shun, or religious organizations who also shun or even worse, murder members who deflect, without ever stopping to acknowledge that the WTS itself has a double standard on this issue.

  Members are told outright to shun family members who deflect, and as noted above, the only reason they don't execute us, is because Caesar's Laws prevent them from doing so.
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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Wow, you'd think Jehovah would protect one of his sheeples from this "honor-killing". Guess not.

  What happened to the good ole days? You know, when the "experiences" would involve a sister working all alone at the door of a mass murderer, but he doesn't attack her because of the two big dudes (angels) standing on either side of the helpless sister.

  I guess some sisters are worth saving... some aren't. Jehovah can be fickle that way.