"Flawed Faith vs. Loss of Faith"

by leavingwt 28 Replies latest jw friends

  • leavingwt
    leavingwt

    Below is a quote from a recent thread at the Channel C Forum that caught my attention. It llustrates how the Exit Strategy for some awakened JWs must include a religious alternative. This particular individual is particularly concerned that JW children will become godless, upon learning that WT is not the only true religion.

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    What becomes of the sister or brother with small children or teens, one who has spent their lives as publishers, what becomes of them after they read COC and believe it? A better question is what becomes of their children's faith after their mother or father joins the exJW community?

    How many of these friends, these parents, are able to start what has become the proverbial answer to fellowship in the Christian exJW community, a home study group with friends and neighbors? It is almost laughable. Those proverbial home study groups for former Witnesses, for most exJWs, work only when there is a strong and well founded Christian in the home. For most it is a sad unattainable myth.

    Unless there is a strong Christian in the household who, contrary to popular exJW opinion, is a strong Christian from the first step out the gate of JWism, the family will fail. It takes years for the parents to come to terms with the death of their religion. Years that will not wait for their children. The child grows and sees and learns and does not always wait for Mom and Dad to understand. No, they come to their own conclusions and those conclusions are for many exJW children and teens anti-religion, anti-Bible and eventually anti-God.

    Yes, imo, it is better for a young publisher to remain in a faulty Christian religion than to lose all faith in God. Every Christian religion has faults, the ancient Jews had their own sinful religious leaders to contend with, as did the first century Christians. Is some truth about any Christian religion worth the spiritual death of so many young ones? No, I do not believe so! Let the Catholic young continue to believe in the Trinity if the alternative is loss of faith in God. Let the Baptists continue to believe in Biblical inerrancy if the alternative is loss of faith in God.

    It is easier to adjust a believer's wrong beliefs than to claim a young agnostic/atheist from his dark place. Much easier!

    Jesus did not send us to correct and leave but rather to correct and save. Too many young have been left to find their own way in the darkness, this is not Christian. And this is why I have returned to the Witnesses.

    http://www.channelc.org/ChCForum/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=1&msgid=7977

  • TheClarinetist
    TheClarinetist

    I just love (non)religious discrimination. Don't you?

  • Mickey mouse
    Mickey mouse

    So a JW child will always be better off than the child of an atheist/agnostic?

    Huge generalisation.

    I have been meaning to get hold of this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Parenting-Beyond-Belief-Raising-Religion/dp/0814474268

  • Qcmbr
    Qcmbr

    Sigh. When will religion just die and shrivel away and stop making good people stupid.

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    The child grows and sees and learns and does not always wait for Mom and Dad to understand. No, they come to their own conclusions and those conclusions are for many exJW children and teens anti-religion, anti-Bible and eventually anti-God.

    So the child figures it all out better than Mom and Dad did. Bravo for that child.

    and "well founded Christian" is a total oxymoron.

    I will start the fire: If there is even a kernel of truth in Christianity of the idea that God condemns good people that don't believe in Him when evidence is absent, then DAMN HIM as He damns me.

  • used2beme
    used2beme

    I would prefer my child learn to think and not be forced to recite.

    @MM - great book you will love it

  • LostGeneration
    LostGeneration

    I would say the average kid would get over it like he gets over Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy not being real.

  • Band on the Run
    Band on the Run

    Such drivel. How do you define Christian and strong Christian? There are so many assumptions it is incredible. Why is a home Bible study the only way to go? I love church Bible studies in a university setting. Church Bible studies expose me to many scholars mentioned on this forum. People with different original faiths challenge my assumptions. Nice ties are built discussing the Bible and how it applies to personal challenges. Sometimes I prefer to focus on the text at home. Overall, I love a diverse group of people discussing scripture in a civil manner. It works on so many human levels.

    I don't think you need a strong Christian, whatever that is. If the text is read in context, most Bible books themes are obvious with a casual reading. Another cool thing about church groups is that everyone brings their own favorite Bible translation. Often we compare the different translations. I' ve learned so much from other people. Humans were created to be social.

  • truth_b_known
    truth_b_known

    This logic suggests that:

    1) Prior to Christianity all children were raised to be evil, out-of-control people.

    2) All non-christian families raise their children to be evil, out-of-control people.

    3) All children raised by aethist/agnostic parents turn out to be evil and out-of-control.

    This is an invalid argument. Especially so since there is no evidence to even suggest it. Further more, it is highly inflammatory since it is implying that children raised in non-christian households have no hope of becoming decent adult.

  • Franklin Massey
    Franklin Massey

    "It is easier to adjust a believer's wrong beliefs than to claim a young agnostic/atheist from his dark place."

    Sounds to me like the author is worried about some sort of Darth Vader situation happening.

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