by Marvin Shilmer 11 Replies latest jw friends
Watchtower’s Email on Blood
Most Witnesses are shocked to learn that under Watchtower’s blood doctrine Jehovah’s Witnesses can accept a component that is more than 50% of the volume of whole blood.
I just uploaded a new blog article showcasing this piece of information.
See the presentation Watchtower’s Hospital Information Services Email, available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/02/watchtowers-hospital-information.html
Marvin Shilmer
Thanks for this, and all your work, Marvin.
I wonder whether this is a divisive topic within the higher eschelons of the Watchtower. My guess would be that this is something the lawyers wish would simply go away but the hardline true believers in the Borg are only capitulating in fractions (pun intended).
It has gone from a useful control mechanism to a huge PitA for the Watchtower, one would think.
Marvin your the best
Blood transfusion to Jehovah Witness is like psychiatry to Scientologist
I carefully read that legally-couched email to that inquiring sister. I see nothing different than their boilerplate from the 2000 and 2004 Watchtowers
*** w00 6/15 p. 31 Questions From Readers ***
Beyond that, when it comes to fractions of any of the primary components, each Christian, after careful and prayerful meditation, must conscientiously decide for himself.
Reading between the lines -- but if you decide for yourself to accept the fractions we will cut you off like Lorena Bobbit did to John .
Len
Thanks so much for that information Marvin. I wonder how many Witnesses have needlessly died because they did were not aware of this.
Ironic isn't it, that we, as ex-Witnesses, probably know far more about the blood doctrine, fractions, plasma, etc. than what most active Witnesses do.
Please go to MS's blog, click on WT e-mail and read text in red regarding this confidential and privileged information.
CC
Hi CC,
You mean that image file? Here is similar boilerplate -- having to do with Twitter & Facebook matters, etc.
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This message is intended only for the use of the Addressee(s) and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that any disclosure copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please destroy all copies of the message, whether in electronic or hard copy format, as well as attachments, and immediately contact the sender by replying to this e-mail or by phone. Thank you.
more than 50% of the volume of whole blood.
When debating the issue, my family have the impression that "minor fractions" are tiddly little amounts that would be injected ...
Not so, is it?
Not always prohibited by the Watchtower Society in the past, the current prohibition against blood transfusions is more contentious and polarizing than few other issues pertaining to the Jehovah's Witnesses. Seen by most outsiders as a ghoulish mediaeval ritual reminiscent of the occult and finding no valid support in the Bible, the prohibition against receiving blood in the form of a blood transfusion is regarded by the Jehovah's Witnesses as a mandate, one of God's immutable laws.
http://www.144000.110mb.com/directory/jehovahs_witnesses_beliefs_blood_transfusions.html
As the information below illustrates, not only are the Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs with respect to blood transfusions indefensible in light of scripture and tradition, the Jehovah's Witnesses' beliefs as put in to practice verge on the hypocritical; allowing the transfusion of some blood components but not others has become a deadly farce. Prohibiting blood transfusions based on snippets of scriptural text taken out of context and indifferent to sound, thoughtful biblical scholarship has caused untold misery and pain, and death; the senseless, unwarranted infliction of emotional distress on thousands.
The Jehovahs Witnesses beliefs regarding the prohibition of blood transfusions becomes all the more heinous when it comes to young children, many of whom have died in furtherance of their parents' misguided beliefs. The blood transfusion prohibition is astounding in light of Jeremiah 32:35 which provides in part, "They built high places to Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, and immolated their sons and daughters to Molech, bringing sin upon Judah; this I never commanded them, nor did it even enter my mind that they should practice such abomination." Here, God instructs man NOT to cause a child to be killed as a form of sacrifice to God. Clearly, sacrificing a child by denying him or her a needed blood transfusion is no different. In no way does such a denial of blood and the child's resulting death please the Almighty. It never entered God's mind.
Any individual contemplating joining the Jehovah's Witnesses religion is forewarned to research this issue carefully, study the history and biblical context of the blood prohibition and understand what it means to not 'eat blood' because the Jehovahs Witnesses' beliefs with respect to this gruesome act is not approved by the Almighty, finds no reliable support in scripture and comes close to being a homicide or a suicide. Avoid the anguish for everyone involved and think clearly on this matter. The Jehovah's Witnesses' beliefs on blood transfusions are not to be taken lightly.
jwfacts.com and ajwrb.org and marvinshilmer.blogspot.com are good places to start.
I don't think that Jesus meant for Christianity to be so dam confusing. The GB has it all wrong!
