by snakeface 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Marking...
And crying at the cruelty shown by supposedly "loving" Jehovah's Witnesses...
And laughing at some of the responses!!!
Lola-Rabbit, I don't know you, but I'm awfully proud of you!! You showed more kindness than the entire rest of your congregation!!
Zid
It's the classic falacy called "The ends justify the means."
Whereas a Witness might reason, "Shunning will lead to repenting or spiritual cleanliness for our organization, therefore shunning is of the utmost priority",
a true Christian will try to discern where a person currently stands (morally), and act accordingly.
The good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son come to mind.
rebel8, good point. Of course I knew that scripture, which says "whoever says a greeting to him is a sharer in his wicked works" and another that says, along with not eating with them, "Not even saying a greeting" but I thought of it as, Whoever initiates a greeting, whoever goes up to them and opens a conversation with them. I wasn't intending to stand there and engage in a long discussion. If I had dropped by book and a DF person picked it up for me, should I not say "Thank you" to that person? (I am sure most witnesses would not in such a scenario.) All this is the way I apparently understood that scripture from the very beginning, although I never really thought about it or discussed it with anyone. I spoke and acted from my heart. My conscience was my guide.
To ignore the person's greeting would by extension imply I have determined that the person is not worthy of my greeting and that the ransom has not yet covered that person's sin. I believe that's what these witnesses feel, that Jehovah hates this person and they are not worthy of forgiveness unless they jump thru hoops in which case the elders get in between the person and Jehovah and try to get Jehovah to change his mind about destroying them.
The underlying principles should be Love and Mercy.
lola-rabbit, that is so sad, the way that sister was basically thrown away. The elders probably made that up. The person probably had repented long long long before then.
The WT LOVES the idea of talking to worldly people in the unlikely event they will learn 'the Truth'.
Those who have been in the 'Truth' and decided it wasn't for them are just too dangerous for vulnerable witnesses; they are kicked to the curb.
I'm sickened by that. Absolutely disgusting behaviour, but I don't expect any different from people in the nasty jehovah wickedness organisation.
In fact, my sister who is thankfully no longer active has stated for years she never cared about their bullshit shunning rules, she always felt it was wrong. She recalled one time at the memorial where everyone looked at her in disgust because she dared to greet and chat to a disfellowshipped former elder who used to help look after and bring food for our mother before she passed after a long battle with cancer.
She said that elder helped our mum while she was alive so no made up bullshit rule from the society was going to stop her from being polite to someone who cared for our mother on her deathbed. At least HE was one of the few decents JWs in that nasty organisation and thankfully he finally left the cult.
So the GB and all their die hard followers can take their rules and shove it up their collective asses and leave the rest of decent humankind the hell alone!
The DF thing just re-inforces to the rank and file that they're a cut above everyone else. They can be as snooty as they want because their imaginary sky friend 'Jehovah(TM)' supports such bigotry.
It's an excuse at supreme arrogance. They have learned this well from the GB's own putrid example in conceit and hatered.
And they claim to be followers of Jesus when he didn't even shun the devil himself or Judas.
