JW view of God too simplistic

by edster 1 Replies latest jw friends

  • edster
    edster

    What really turned me off the JW religion was the way they portray God as an elitist. Their God was one where if you did what the Watchtower told you to he'll bless you with everlasting life on a lush green planet with summer all year round surrounded by fit looking people who wear pearly white smiles 24/7 picking ripened fruit from a tree just out the front door. And If you did wrong, he'll come after you and pelt you will flaming rocks the size of golf balls and football fields. Unless you conform or fit a certain mould that is prescribed you're destined to the scrap heap.

    Well, thank God the world is not as monotonous as that and that each one of us is different. As i've mentioned previously, people develop certain traits because of varying social, environmental and economic factors from the most generous charity worker to the most hardened criminals. Ever since i've stopped studying the JW propaganda, i've come to appreciate that there is a God that understands each of us individually and why we are the way we are rather than the judgemental Big Brother type who incinerates people if you don't follow the borg.
    Thank god for diversity.

  • Silverleaf
    Silverleaf

    I think the JW view of God [as well as other fundamentalist groups] appeals to the basic idea that there is a right and wrong side and all you have to do to be on the 'right' side is follow a set of rules. This gives people a sense of self-righteousness, a blueprint for behavior that will assure them an eternal reward and removes them from the responsibility of making their own decisions. It also separates them from those who are different and assures them they won't be sharing paradise with anyone they don't like. It alleviates the hardship of having to be tolerant of those they don't agree with and gives them a sense of superiority. While it may seem impossible to a lot of people to live this way, on some level it's actually easier than having to create your own personal moral code and live by it.

    JMDO,

    Silverleaf

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