Are we really apostates?

by JH 23 years ago 16 Replies latest 23 years ago jw friends

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  Big Tex 23 years ago

  If Jehovah's Witnesses are the only people approved of by the one true God, then don't wait for Armageddon. Destroy me now. I want no part of their arrogant, self-righteous, lying, hypocritcal and bigoted world. If that is what is right and proper, then call me an apostate and I am PROUD to be one. Damn straight.

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  Sentinel 23 years ago

  Hi John,

  No, quite honestly, I don't consider "myself" to be an apostate. Some jokingly refer to "us" that way, only because that is the lable that the borg places upon us. I refuse to wear that label.

  Since the JW's do not, nor ever did, have "the truth", why would we want to accept such a lable? As far as I'm concerned, "the truth that sets one free", is the knowledge that by getting totally as far away from all the religious dogma, we will be truly spiritually enlightened. We will be free!

  Edited by - Sentinel on 28 November 2002 20:14:56

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  DanTheMan 23 years ago

  When I became a JW, it was an emotional decision, not an informed one. So they cannot rightly say that I turned against what I knew to be right. I turned against what I progressively learned was utterly wrong.

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  izobcenec 23 years ago

  "I like being apostate"

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  Beans 23 years ago

  Because we can!

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  LB 23 years ago

  Hello, my name is Al. I am an apostate.

  By the websters dictionary we are apostates. Anytime you leave something and oppose it you are an apostate to that particular belief. So if you were a republican and became a democrat you'd be an apostate republican.

  No big deal.

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  Quotes 23 years ago

  Let us not forget that Pastor Chuck Dazed Russell was also an apostate: he left his former religion and started his own. Classic apostacy! How many JWs think of their founder as an apostate?

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