Article: Why More Young Women Are Leaving Church [65% of JW members are women] (page 2)

Scully

Personally, the subjugation of women was something I just couldn't tolerate anymore. Not just for me, but for my daughters. I didn't want them growing up being taught that their being female made it permissible for them to be treated inappropriately on any level.

Joyzabel

"As far as I remember, woman weren't even allowed to hold microphones"

"Actually they are allowed to, but ONLY IF there are no brothers available"

I'm SHOCKED!!!! Sisters get to hold a phallic looking object??? (lol @ only when someone who has a phallic organ is not present) I bet they have to have a head covering on while doing so! (condom??)

ROTFMAO

Xanthippe

Scully I wanted to like your post five times over. I wholeheartedly agree that I couldn't have anything to do with that religion now because of its treatment of women. I couldn't allow my daughter to grow up believing that women are second class citizens. I can't tolerate sexism anymore and I'm certain my daughter wouldn't.

smiddy

DJS

That made me laugh ,I hope your wife doesn`t read that post .

smiddy

maybe more women are leaving , however I bet more males are leading double lives .

just an observation I had with my two teenage sons many years ago,when they confided in me .

Quote :" If you knew what we got up to in our youth ? Use your imagination ,enough said "

Just saying

smiddy

Bugbear

Thanks for your post Barbara.. Interesting stuff…

There is un organization that makes yearly investigations about what people actually believe and They call are called “world wide survey”. In their latest presentation some countries stick out extremely when it comes to religious believes. You will find that in the northern European countries all kinds of religion is declining. Especially Sweden is on their map extremely secular. Less than 23% of the interviewed persons claims that they had any sort of believing in a “higher power” . Less than 4 % of the populations goes to any church ceremony. In fact those JW:s who are doing their “preaching” work, are looked upon as lunatics. Hence the number of JW,s in Sweden has declined from 25.000 (1980) to about 19000 in the year 2014. I am sure that this numbers 19000 is even that a fake. Lots of “faders” are still registered as witnesses.

Bugbear

DJS

Smiddy: ". . . . I hope your wife doesn`t read that post."

Smid,

I've been single for over two decades, so I don't have to worry about saying things like that (could that be a clue?) Even if I were married, I wouldn't change anything (a clue?).

Bugbear, as we have pointed out before, the happiest, most ethical and functional countries in the world are in N. Europe, which is also the least religious and most secular and atheistic area on the planet. Evolution at work (to my slow moving zombie (not the fast kind with cognitive ability) theist pets - could that be a clue).

Heaven

DJS said: Thanks Heaven,
You just outed yourself: "My mind is very logical."
You are really a guy!

I do love power tools!

DJS

Thanks Heaven: "I do love power tools!"

I have about six different responses to your comments, none of which I can use on this site!

OrphanCrow

Patriarchy is the backbone of almost all religion. Elimination of patriarchy would result in a significant reduction in religious influence. It is no surprise that the countries that have the most egalitarian societies have the least religious people in them. Those people don't need religion - they are already self-empowered because their society treats them fairly.

DJS: Thanks Heaven: "I do love power tools!"
I have about six different responses to your comments, none of which I can use on this site!

Yeah...and I bet none of those responses have anything at all to do with Heaven's most powerful tool of all - her mind.

Article: Why More Young Women Are Leaving Church [65% of JW members are women]

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