Why Apostate?

by wantstoleave 14 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Olin Moyles Ghost

  Wantstoleave stated: Ghost, you bring up a valid point. One I could use with my father, who resigned from his church when he became a Jw. His parents didn't abandon him or stop talking to him.

  And you can take this line of reasoning one step further. Some JWs make statements such as "why can't ex-JWs just leave quietly--why do they have to criticize the Society after they've left?"

  Well, isn't that exactly what Witnesses do after they leave their former church? Don't they go door-to-door telling people that other religions (including their former faith) are part of "Babylon the Great" and will be destroyed by God very soon? Don't they try to get their former church members to leave the church and join the JW religion?
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  AllTimeJeff

  Well, isn't that exactly what Witnesses do after they leave their former church? Don't they go door-to-door telling people that other religions (including their former faith) are part of "Babylon the Great" and will be destroyed by God very soon? Don't they try to get their former church members to leave the church and join the JW religion?

  Bravo!
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  zoiks

  As others have more eloquently brought out, the use of the word Apostate for their own ends is just an example of "loaded language", a common tool of high-control groups and cults. Its misuse by the WTS is blatant and cynical.

  zoiks
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  glenster

  
  "why the organisation feels the need to make such a deal of an apostate":
  
  The JWs leaders have notably harsh disfellowshipping rules because they have a
  concern beyond the usual things disfellowshipping is used for--something they're
  more protective about.
  
  Someone who stops following the JWs leaders might be someone who's wise to the
  methods the JWs leaders use to affect their exclusiveness--the methods they use
  to make a dozen or so rules with bad cases seem like they're supported by the
  best reasoning and evidence.
  
  The JWs leaders send their followers into the public where they could run into
  all kinds of people, and followers will leave now and then who want to keep the
  friends they made. Those who leave might be especially concerned to tell
  friends who still follow the JWs leaders about the evidence they found about the
  JWs leaders' false claims of exclusiveness. So the JWs leaders cast those who
  leave as enemies, like they use harsh disfellowshipping rules for persistent
  disagreement with any of the JWs leaders' distinctive rules, for damage control.
  
  Persistent sinfulness is bad, but the JWs leaders are more concerned to try to
  minimize how often someone will talk one of their customers out of sending the
  JWs leaders money.
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  Lady Lee