Reviewing The Steve and Selma Saga from a Year Ago...

by LoisLane looking for Superman 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  LoisLane looking for Superman

  When I read my copy of the Watchtower and read this "supposed" story of Steve hitting Selma, her JW "Bible" teacher, reading her a scripture, telling her she needs to be a better wife, so this good hearted, God fearing, passive, already abused woman, who wants to be a Christian, and wants to obey the "will" of God, stays with an abusive mate for 17 more years...then Hallelujah...he becomes a JW!

  What a screwed up scenario!

  What if the "Bible" teacher said, "You need help! Jesus preached love. You can't be a Christian in a household with an abusive mate. Plus, it is against Caesar's Law to touch another person, with intent to hurt. Let's call the proper authorities, right now!"

  That would be teaching proper procedure.

  "Selma", a passive abused woman, with proper help from Professionals, could have left "Steve", gone back to School, got an Education, helped others, and made her life...worth something...other than a bobble-headed robot, regurgitating the "latest" "new light", as God's honest truth, this time. lol

  Just Lois
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  sd-7

  It does seem odd that a woman who was hit by her husband for 'trying to make a point' is then told that she needs to be more loving. Would being more loving have prevented her from being hit? Leaving would probably work a lot better if your man is hitting you. Odds are it wasn't the first time and wasn't the last time, either. And since the WT rule is 'extreme physical abuse' to allow for separation, poor Selma is just digging a hole big enough for her now-JW husband to shove her into.

  But this is nothing new. WT has been teaching a warped view of women for decades now (I'm sure there are still some women being interrogated by elders after being raped, to be sure they haven't 'committed fornication'), so...there you have it.

  --sd-7
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  frankiespeakin

  Lois,

  Well the Governing Body all belong to the good old boys club so they can sypathize with the guy getting violent and would rather put the blam on the women being a better wife according to the the way the scriptures recomend. These guys of the GB are all over the hill and very simplistic in their thinking and they like to think they got all the answers.

  BTW I sent you a pm. How do you know Sweet Honey?
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  jgnat

  Nor do they mention that Selma goes to an early grave from a stroke brought on from extended brain trauma.
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  Oubliette

  The Writers of WT Publications are abusive men. If nothing else, at least we can say that their behavior is consistent.

  Abusers gotta abuse!
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  sd-7

  Abusers gotta abuse!

  Sounds like something 00DAD would say. But good point. "It's called an oubliette. That's French for 'a place of forgetting'. No bars, no locks...just walls of air."

  --sd-7