I was looking at the Jehovahs Witness website for the infobyte about disfellowshipping, the one which said that disfellowshipping does not severe family ties. I think it was in response to the question 'Do Jehovahs Witnesses split up families?' Or something like that.
I wanted to compare it with the latest KM article which says of a disfellowshipped person 'Former spiritual ties have been completely severed. This is true even with respect to his relatives, including those within his immediate family circle...'
Anyway, I havent found it yet. I wonder if they removed it because it was an obvious contradiction.
What I did find was evidence of shoddy proofreading. When I did a search for Dfing a list of eight possible selections came up. This was one of them:
God's fatherly discipline, can take many forms. One is his arrangement to exclude from the Christian congreatgation a person who no longer wants to live by God's standards.
(Oh yeah? Who says? Don't they mean those who will no longer toe the party line?)
Also, on the main page, was this link:
View DisfellowshippingPracticing a Bible Standard.
Now, I don't know about American usage, which may be different from ours, but in the UK practice with a c is a noun while practise with an s is a verb. So it should be 'practising a Bible Standard. '
Not that spelling congregation incorrectly or misusing nouns and verbs is proof of anything, except perhaps the dumbing down of bethelites, I just thought it was interesting.
Edited because cutting and pasting from Word loses half the punctuation.
Edited by - dmouse on 20 July 2002 8:59:17