If we could just walk away from the JWs, with our dignity, our reputations, our friendships and our family relationships intact, we wouldn't have anything to complain about.
That's not the case, is it? Even in this talk, the CO defames us, calling us rabble rousers, implying we are only interested in stirring up trouble. The WTS calls us "mentally diseased." They label us with pejorative terminology, like "disfellowshipped", "disassociated", "sinners", "revilers", "evil", "apostates", "satanic", etc. while instructing family members and friends to cut off contact with us, and then expect us to "shut up" and "just leave quietly"?? Oh, HELL NO.
You can't even miss a Meeting™ without getting looked at sideways and gossiped about. If you aren't Regular™ in Field Service™, you start getting shut out socially. They take away Privileges™ which makes things even worse for you socially, because more JWs start avoiding you like a leper.
If we could just walk away from the JWs, the way we decide to never frequent a place of business that wasn't to our liking - or worse treated us unfairly - without having it destroy our family relationships, our reputations and our friendships, there would be nothing for us to complain about. But the WTS doesn't treat us in a way that allows us to leave with dignity - the beatings begin early on, and they escalate the further away from the JWs you get. They get your own flesh and blood to participate in your mental, emotional and psychological abuse.
The WTS fought for the right to exist as a religious belief system as a matter of basic human rights, and yet they deny us our basic human rights of free exercise of belief, freedom of thought, freedom of worship, and freedom of association. How can we NOT expose this hypocrisy, this tyrrany, this injustice?
