Here are two translated articles from MLADINA magazine:
Awake!
Excommunicated members are criticising their former organisation.
Recently there was Jehovahs Witnesses assembly in Tivoli Hall, Slovenia. The ceremonial topic of the meeting was the apocalypse which is already knocking at our doors. Brother Leon Miklavcic explained to all the present audience the plan about the annihilation or transformation into non-existence of five billion individuals who do not follow the right rules and do not believe in the right god.
Some similar convincing effort can be found in their publication Awake! which some indefatigable activists delivered to passers-by.
The previous issue wrote about the world peace, Gods violent instructions and eternal punishment. The latest edition is almost entirely dedicated to the police, without it our world could be governed by anarchy.
Although the state internal organs are still needed they will not be necessary in the future anymore. Jehovah will establish a heavenly kingdom where the police should not be needed and we shall all be sitting everyone under our own vine and under our own fig-tree and we shall not be scared by anyone. There will be no pornography which is one of the main topics of this fanzine.
Pornography and even a thought about fornication are in the opinion of Jehovahs Witnesses directly linked to rape and violence. In the course of time pornography users force their partners to practise unusual sexual activities which may put them away from God.
Pornography is improper, because it exhibits publicly the most intimate personal activities. It is disgusting because it humiliates man and makes him behave as an animal. It is unloving since it does not stimulate tenderness or respect. It stimulates but egoistic lust...Anything offered by pornography is harmful. This is not quite compatible with the scripture. Besides some detail instructions for sexual relations can be found right in the Bible: May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe, a graceful deer- may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love. (Proverbs 5:18,19)
The former members do not agree with the teachings of the organisation. They designed their own website where they call public attention to the inadmissible policy of the leadership. They came to the assemby of their former brothers and sisters and stack flyers about their hiding information and mind control. Nevertheless they were not able not carry out the action up to the end because the guards drove them away and destroyed the flyers. Obviously the public has no right to be informed that the leadership through the harmful policy against paedophilia hurt many children, and that the prohibition of abstaining from blood owing to the sanctity of blood overlooked the sanctity of human life itself.
By Sebastijan Ozmec
The religious fight
How to treat excommunicated believers
If you are an independent thinker and you do not like to accept any idea that is served to you, you are likely to risk the disfellowshippment from your favourite religious organisation. This has happened to some Jehovahs Witnesses as well. In the 32nd issue of our magazine we reported about their dispute at the recent Jehovahs Witnesses assembly. The ex-members revealed us some details which do not have much in common with spirituality. The magazine Watchtower which is printed in numerous languages is in the opinion of their former members one of the biggest publishing houses in the world. Religion is used only as a mask so as to hide the business.
In the latest issue of their internal publication Our Kingdom Ministry the leaders of the Society warn their members against using the electronic mail and making their own websites since their official websites should be enough. One of the next serious charges is the prohibition of abstaining from blood which kills people and also little children. Loyal Christians should not mix with a disfellowshipped person. The Scripture says that we should not even eat with such a man. We should avoid any social contact with the excommunicated one..., even with your relative. In the publication it is said that those Christians who respect this rule should have much benefit from it, for in such a way they can show their love for Jehovah.
The apostates say: we and all those who have left the organisation are shunned by our former friends. This is probably the worst thing which can happen to you. The society stigmatises the disfellowshipped persons and throws them away as trash.
By Sebastijan Ozmec
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Edited by - izobcenec on 24 October 2002 8:38:50