What kind of scandal would cause most JW to leave the "truth"?

by Iamallcool 62 Replies latest jw friends

  • AuntConnie
    AuntConnie

    Force Jehovah's Witnesses to practice authentic first and second century Christian compassion and love. Make them invite all the poor and undesirables to their "love feasts", bust up the same car-groups that work in field service with each other every day the "elect" show up. Force the Witnesses to spend time helping at a Food Bank and instead of accepting food from "Meals on Wheels", make them drive the route one week out of each month. Force them to behave like good citizens and tell them if they don't act this way, the Governing Body will kick them out!

    The Kindom Halls would be ghost towns, the thrieving wholesome pioneers would quit and look for another person to spend the rest of their life with someone who appreciates how pious and superficial they are. The elders would fade too, a few who are helping charities secretly with time and energy the Watchtower and their fellow elders covet would finally be free as the fake elders quit and find something to else to fill their void.

  • yadda yadda 2
    yadda yadda 2

    Nothing, I repeat nothing would unless they changed one or more of their core doctrines on the trinity, soul, hellfire, heavenly and earthly hope, or divine name. They could change everything else and would always have a majority of followers.

  • jambon1
    jambon1

    I was once told by an up and coming JW (previous waster) that if the entire GB was found to be paedophiles it still wouldn't stumble him against the truth.

    Not that they're brain washed or that.

  • John_Mann
    John_Mann

    I think the WT nemesis is the internet.

    And they will in great trouble as internet are becoming smart.

    There's a lot of information noise on internet, but with the advance of AI we will not have a pain for searching things.

    All you have to do is just ask something and you will be fed with precise information.

    What you gonna do if the Google machine just show you facts about your religion?

    http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/09/are_search_engines_and_the_internet_hurting_human_memory.html

  • metatron
    metatron

    Guys, the only example we have is the rare incidence of a congregation collapsing. Doesn't happen very often, they get the C.O.'s in those situations quick.

    You need an open, obvious scandal that hits the elders as a whole. Witnesses worship the Organization as God, so you would have to 'hit' that and kill off the credibility of the leadership.

    That said, I continue to hold that a different end is more likely: the organization slowly compromises itself out of existence. The leadership lose faith in their own bullsh*t and pull back from everything.

    metatron

  • Anony Mous
    Anony Mous

    What does it take for Catholics to leave their religion en-masse? Absolutely nothing! They are going to believe what they believe and there is nothing rational that you can say that will change that.

    - The pope has been replaced by another pope because of child abuse scandals

    - None of the bishops agree on the faith (creation, gay rights, child abuse, sainthood)

    - Their history is filled with events that the church either committed or supported (holocaust, most wars were in name of the Catholic Church, still support terrorism in Ireland, inquisitions, crusades, ...)

    - They have no internal consistency in their cathechesis, they don't even recognize their own holy book as accurate anymore

    - They deny scientific facts which have been proven time and time again to be correct

  • Finkelstein
    Finkelstein

    Jehovah's Witnesses are already in a scandal called the Watchtower Corporation.

  • Aunt Fancy
    Aunt Fancy

    A lot of very good points expressed. I think you have to be tired of it and something has to happen to you or someone you love. That is what happened to me and once I started to read and research I was shocked because I knew of none of it. I also feel the internet is one of their biggest enemies right now. There is no way they can hid the lies and the crimes against children and all others. I agree with Quendi that it could fall in the near future just like governments do. I would honestly love to see them taxed, they will really pump up the reteric.

  • Phizzy
    Phizzy

    The one thing that might do it would be if a genuine expose of their financial dealings and situation were to surface.

    If say, it was shown that they have huge off-shore funds containing Billions of dollars whilst asking poor families and little old ladies to make the pips squeak and donate more.

  • MissConfused
    MissConfused

    When i asked me TURTH-ful friends, one of them said, if Aliens would visit earth, that would be it!

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