Have you read Crisis of Conscience and still remained a JW in good conscience?

mankkeli

I am just curious if anyone read Crisis of Conscience and still remained a JW with a good conscience?.

Quarterback

Yes, I did.

So did the Author, until they DA's him for dining with his boss.

Iamallcool

stillajwexelder did, he does not post here much lately.

bnybyt

I read CoC back in 2007.

I'm still attending meetings due to having ultra WT loyalist family.

There are a lot of "conscious class" folks on JWN who are still in due to not wanting to be separated from their families, I believe.

breakfast of champions

Read it as well. I really was not surpsrised or shocked in reading the book. It more affirmed suspicions I already had.

Anyone who finally picked up CoC and read it WHILE AS A JW already had gotten past the point of letting others establish values for their conscience. Some time ago I would a NEVER have read that book or seen and R-rated movie. A person had to have standards. Like most good, loyal JWs, I had no problem with letting someone else set my standards for me. That's been the biggest change for me. I am thinking for myself. I now question everything. It's actually kinda bad sometimes. I can't read anything without scrutinizing it to see what kind of scam they might try to be pulling over my eyes. I feel that I have been so deceived for so long, by someone that I was certain was trustworthy.

So, your original question may seem at first like an oxymoron -- how can a good JW read CoC and still have a good conscience?

But it's not. It just means that the JW has grown personally to the point that they have become able to establish their own conscience and standards instead of letting someone else impose their ideas on them.

That kind of thinking will make a big difference in other things in their life as well.

DOC

N.drew

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that anything is either true or false. Real or not real.

I knew that the JWs were not governed by Holy Spirit by the way they reflected darkness, not light.

So when I read the book Crisis of Conscience I was amazed at the many examples of man rule that

were brought out in the book. It was so obvious from page one that it is a man made organization,

not led by Jesus. One needs only one revelation to know that is is either led by Jesus or it is not.

How many examples of man rule are in the book? A thousand? So why is it obscure to all but us

"apostates"? Why is there no outrage? Magic? It does not seem right that the society can get away with it.

How are they getting away with it? If Jesus by his Father is not leading them, which is obvious to us,

then they take the Name in vain. Why is that all right with the world? It is a sin up there with murder.

Why is murder against the law, but taking the Name in vain is not?

jwfacts

My cousin gave the book to my auntie in the 1980's. According to my cousin, my auntie was extremely emotionally distraught about the information, so much so that my cousin took the book off her half way through. My auntie is still a hardcore JW, and simply recalls the book as the "ravings of a bitter man".

My mother and father read bits and pieces of it but dismissed it, just as my mother dismissed any information I raised with her, often without any defence or explanation at all.

wobble

I sympathise JWfacts, my JW family are the same, they will go to their graves having wasted their lives working for no pay for a publishing company who by its cult methods has closed their minds completely.

The O.P asks about remaining a JW in good conscience ? I am not sure if the question is, does what you know trouble even the strangely malleable and plastic conscience of a JW ? or, does not your conscience (not the WT one) now trouble you for remaining a JW ? Now you know there is no truth in it ?

Broken Promises

I can't understand how a person could read COC and still believe the JWs are "the truth".

They'd have to have serious cognitive dissonance in order to remain believing JWs.