good topic Biggs...i've alwasy wondered why they didn't ever tell the whole story.....
Persecution-Why JW's Feel They Are Chosen Ones
by Mister Biggs 20 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Fredhall
Biggs,
If you said to someone that you got wet in a rain storm; does that mean YOU was the only one that got wet?
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Fredhall
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!! It is ALF!! The cat eater!!!!
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dungbeetle
And for supporting citations, you have WHAT..FRED?
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fellow readers
what ridiculous statements you make about jws. im a jw and i dont relish the idea of being persecuted. as if thats going to give me everlasting life . Nor do i go looking for it or have developed some type of persecution complex. actually i got on here to find some intelligent people, to debate with i dont care
who they are, but with the level of childishness i have found im wondering. Any ways lets see in the future shall we. -
Mister Biggs
To anyone who doesn't think the WTSociety purposely leaves out part of the story, I present to you this evidence:
(Especially take note of the last very last sentence of the article)US religions panel seeks ban on Saudis, Turkmens
AFP, Washington
A US advisory panel has urged the administration of President George W. Bush to designate Saudi Arabia and Turkmenistan as gross violators of religious freedoms and impose sanctions against them.
These and other recommendations are contained in an annual report unveiled Monday by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom that advises the administration and Congress on a broad array of international and humanitarian policy issues.The panel said the assistance provided the United States by a number of Arab and Asian states in Washington's war on terrorism should not deter the administration from taking a firm stand on human right and religious freedoms.
"Cooperation in the fight against terrorism does not grant them license to continue to abuse the rights of their own people," the commission said in the report.
The recommendations come at a particularly delicate time for US diplomacy, which has been trying to enlist Saudi cooperation in putting the Middle East peace process back on track and forging a unified front for a possible military operation against Iraq.
But these considerations notwithstanding, the panel said that the Saudi monarchy "denies religious freedom and vigorously enforces its prohibition against all forms of public religious expression other that those who follow the government's interpretation and presentation of the Hanbali school of Sunni Islam."
As many as 14 Christians of various nationalities were imprisoned without charge in the Saudi city of Jeddah last year in what appeared to be a crackdown on a loose network of private Christian "home fellowships," according to the report.
Several of those detained were subject to beatings and repeated interrogations, and all were deported from Saudi Arabia by March 2002, said the document.
As for Turkmenistan, the report found religious freedom conditions in that former Soviet republic "very poor and deteriorating."
The only religions officially recognised by the Turkmen government include Sunni Islam and Russian Orthodox Christianity.
Members of other religious communities, including Baha'is, Baptists, Hare Krishnas, Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostals and Seventh-day Adventists, have been imprisoned, deported, harassed, fined and had their services disrupted, the report said.
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Fredhall
Dungbeetle,
Are you following me?
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Fredhall
Biggs,
I think that issue came up before Congress on April 26, 2002. Not at the WTS. Plus, what is wrong of defending your own brothers? If other religions cannot defend their own brothers then that is their problem.
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Mister Biggs
Fredhall-
And why do you assume or conclude that other religions aren't defending their religion?
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Nikita
There are many Christians persecuted for their beliefs in countries under Islamic law. If you get the chance to check out www.persecution.com you can read their stories. There is also a book out called "Jesus Freaks" by dc Talk and The Voice of the Martyrs.
I have a friend who spent 2 years in Uzbekistan and was watched regularly. He was allowed to read the Bible on his own but not allowed to talk about it or his faith unless they specifically asked him first.
I went to Moldova, a small conuntry in Eastern Europe where Christianity is "tolerated" but trust me persecution of Christians who are not with the Orthodox church exists there.
Nikita