Blood issu

by happy man 23 years ago 5 Replies latest 23 years ago jw friends

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  happy man 23 years ago

  I find this on an US site fore religius disskusion,

  June 14, 2000, Wednesday, FINAL

  SECTION: News; A1 / Front

  LENGTH: 531 words

  HEADLINE: Jehovah's Witnesses okay blood transfusions

  BYLINE: Ruth Gledhill and Petti Fong

  BODY:
  Jehovah's Witnesses are to be allowed to accept blood transfusions after an extraordinary U-turn by leaders of the
  controversial religion.

  Elders have decreed that Jehovah's Witnesses who accept blood transfusions under life-or-death conditions will no longer
  face excommunication from their religion.

  The move represents the biggest climbdown in the movement since the predicted Armageddon failed to materialize as forecast in
  1975. The decision, arrived at by a secret meeting of the 12-member world governing body at the movement's headquarters in
  New York, was dismissed as a ''slight adjustment'' by the religion's leaders.

  This muste bee some form of missunderrstanding , or what?

  perhaps it is that we can not dfd persons whotake blood, but the GB told us to look at them as dfd ,

  i have some weak memory that we have this info on some eldermeting, some here who now?

  then I reead a lot of this Hemopure, what is Hemopure,never heard of it?

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  A Paduan 23 years ago

  If it was about eating vegetables even the borg would have looked further into it long ago - fact is, most people aren't into blood, so it's not too hard to put people off it.

  But in the information age, even the dubs will see an end to it - soon enough transfusions will be accepted, not just tolerated, and more so as people in science work to make it even safer - funny thing how that 'new light' just keeps coming.

  paduan

  Edited by - A paduan on 1 September 2002 18:54:4

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  Farkel 23 years ago

  happy,

  It's not true.

  Farkel

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  ISP 23 years ago

  Thats some feedback following the June 15 WT QFR on blood. The article you quoted was not quite right. The WTS have not U-Turned on blood.

  ISP

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  Elsewhere 23 years ago

  The article is ALMOST correct... it is true that a person will not be disfellowshipped for accepting blood. HOWEVER... the person will be recognized as having disassociated himself.

  The consequences of being DFed and DAing oneself are one and the same: Shunning.

  (Edited to correct grammar)

  Edited by - Elsewhere on 1 September 2002 19:8:23

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  sunshineToo 23 years ago

  Happy, are you related to comfy the Comforter? For some reason you remind me of him.

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