Emery, I don't have any ammunition for you, but this thread may give you an idea of the kind of weapon you can shoot it from.
Project: I need help finding Watchtowers that show hate, prejudice, and name-calling.
by Emery 15 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Farkel
:I need help finding Watchtowers that show hate, prejudice, and name-calling.
Go to your local laundromat and find any typical Watchtower magazine. You will find plenty of what you want.
Farkel
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Newly Enlightened
Well, you may get more evidence now. According to Cedars new post, the Sat morning program of the 2013 DC is all about hating us evil apostates!
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Gopher
Did anyone quote this one?
"Being limited by the laws of the worldly nation in which we live and also by the laws of God through Jesus Christ, we can take action against apostates only to a certain extent, that is, consistent with both sets of laws. The law of the land and God's law through Christ forbid us to kill apostates, even though they be members of our own flesh-and-blood family relationship."
Nov 15, 1952 Watchtower pp.703-704
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Newly Enlightened
Here's another one that I just found thanks to Snarky the Apologists on Youtube:
1961 WT 7/15 pg 420:
Jesus encouraged his followers to love their enemies, but God’s Word also says to “hate what is bad.” When a person persists in a way of badness after knowing what is right, when the bad becomes so ingrained that it is an inseparable part of his make-up, then in order to hate what is bad a Christian must hate the person with whom the badness is inseparably linked. Indicating that Jesus did not mean for us to love the hardened enemies of Jehovah, David expressed this God-approved attitude: “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.”—Matt. 5:44; Amos 5:15; Ps. 139:21, 22.
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FingersCrossed
"Being limited by the laws of the worldly nation in which we live and also by the laws of God through Jesus Christ, we can take action against apostates only to a certain extent, that is, consistent with both sets of laws. The law of the land and God's law through Christ forbid us to kill apostates, even though they be members of our own flesh-and-blood family relationship."
Nov 15, 1952 Watchtower pp.703-704
So, if there wasn't any forbidding, we are suppose to kill apostates, even if they our own flesh and blood??