w92 7/15: "It is the obligation of all JWs to hate apostates"

by cedars 41 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Roberta804

  amazing
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  FingersCrossed

  I wonder if someone could compile a list of hate speeches from the WT publications and give it to the proper authorities what would happen?

  It would be a great idea to show to all how this religion is a religion that promotes hate.
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  Change Name

  "The obligation to hate lawlessness also applies to all activity by apostates. Our attitude toward apostates should be that of David, who declared: 'Do I not hate those who are intensely hating you, O Jehovah, and do I not feel a loathing for those revolting against you? With a complete hatred I do hate them. They have become to me real enemies.'

  Are you saying it is wrong to hate lawlessness and the activities of apostates?

  Context... all of it.

  "Jesus’ counsel to love one’s enemies is in full harmony with the spirit of the Hebrew Scriptures. (Mt 5:44) Faithful Job recognized that any feeling of malicious joy over the calamity of one intensely hating him would have been wrong. (Job 31:29) The Mosaic Law enjoined upon the Israelites the responsibility to come to the aid of other Israelites whom they might view as their enemies. (Ex 23:4, 5) Instead of rejoicing over the disaster of an enemy, God’s servants are instructed: “If the one hating you is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.”—Pr 24:17, 18; 25:21."

  "In true loyalty to Jehovah, his servants hate what and whom he hates. (2Ch 19:2) “Do I not hate those who are intensely hating you, O Jehovah, and do I not feel a loathing for those revolting against you? With a complete hatred I do hate them. They have become to me real enemies.” (Ps 139:21, 22) But this hate does not seek to inflict injury on others and is not synonymous with spite or malice. Rather,it finds expression in its utter abhorrence of what is wicked, avoiding what is bad and those intensely hating Jehovah. (Ro 12:9, 17, 19) Christians rightly hate those who are confirmed enemies of God, such as the Devil and his demons, as well as men who have deliberately and knowingly taken their stand against Jehovah."
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  FingersCrossed

  Modern-day apostates have made common cause with 'the man of lawlessness,' the clergy of Christendom. (2 Thessalonians 2:3)

  Not only they promote hatred for the "apostates" but also the Christendom. They are obliged hate everybody!
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  smiddy

  Jehovah`s Witnesses / WatchTower speak out of both sides of their mouth .That way they can justify any contradicting statement made, and be unfazed by it.

  smiddy
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  WTWizard

  Blatant hate speech. As a group, are "apostates" a parasite on humanity? Do "apostates" seek to enslave mankind as a group? If not, then they have no reason to hate them. They are merely people that realize that the whole religion they were abiding by is a scam or are sick of the bad treatment and ridiculous demands placed on them by such religion. It's the religion that seeks to enslave mankind. The leaders are inherent parasites seeking to enslave mankind, and as such deserve hatred. You have every reason to hate those who seek to enslave you and drain your resources, not those who resist such enslavement.
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  Phizzy

  This is typical of the WT writing, they know because of the mind-control already in place that every R&F JW will read this as a racist would read a diatribe against his or her hated race, in their mind they take it much further than the words suggest.

  This leaves it open for them to say, "No, we only said hate the works and propaganda of Apostates, not the person, we hope the person will come to their senses and return to the fold".

  But having quoted the hate speech from Psalms as a directive they have made the whole thing in to a hate speech, something illegal here in the U.K
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  bats in the belfry

  Some people have caused human death willfully or through carelessness. Others have taken part in collective killing, perhaps persuaded by religious leaders that this was God’s will. Still others have persecuted and killed servants of God. Even if we have not done such things, though, we share community responsibility for the loss of human life because we did not know God’s law and will. We are like the unintentional manslayer ‘who killed his fellowman without knowing it and who did not hate him formerly.’ (Deuteronomy 19:4) Such individuals ought to implore God for mercy and should run into the antitypical city of refuge. Otherwise they will have a fatal meeting with the Avenger of blood.
  w95 11/15 p. 16 par. 5

  Isn't that exactly what they encourage their flock to do?
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  Room 215

  What else can one expect of an organization whose worldview prepares its followers to trod over the violently dispatched cadavers of "the others" - 7-plus billion men, women, infants, neighbors, relatives, workmates - on their way to paradise?
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  Pistoff

  No witness will see what a dishonest position this is.

  1. It paints apostates with a broad brush, assuming that they 'hate Jehovah', that they hate anything, really.

  2. " Our attitude toward apostates should be that of David, who declared: 'Do I not hate those who are intensely hating you, O Jehovah, and do I not feel a loathing for those revolting against you?"

  From David!! The WT is perfectly OK with giving us a man who was a murdering adulterer as a moral touchstone on who to hate!

  Moral: OK to spend a lifetime killing people and stealing a man's wife, but don't 'hate Jehovah'.

  No irony in the WT writer universe, I guess.