Jehovah’s Witnesses fail to get state recognition in Lithuania

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News2024.06.06 13:46

Lithuanian lawmakers on Thursday denied state recognition to the Lithuanian Jehovah’s Witnesses Religious Community.

In total, 88 MPs voted against granting Jehovah’s Witnesses state recognition, two were in favour, and three abstained.

According to the Seimas, this community does not comply with the Lithuanian constitution and its requirement that religious teachings and rituals be in accordance with the law and integrity.

The resolution says that the religious teaching of Jehovah’s Witnesses prohibiting blood transfusions is incompatible with the constitutional right to life of a human being and the right to state-guaranteed medical aid.

It also says that the community’s teaching prohibiting participation in the defence of the state with weapons or contribution to the defence of the state by non-military means encourages non-compliance with the constitution and its requirements to defend the state against a foreign armed attack.

NotFormer

"The resolution says that the religious teaching of Jehovah’s Witnesses prohibiting blood transfusions is incompatible with the constitutional right to life of a human being and the right to state-guaranteed medical aid."

At least they didn't fall for the lie used on Bulgaria: "There are no sanctions by us if someone decides to get a blood transfusion". The resolution outright says that that teaching, i.e. the doctrine, is wrong and incompatible with the law.

The question is, is Lithuania important enough for the WT to backpedal on blood (and military service)? On its own it might not be. But there's always the possibility of a domino effect, where other states look at this precedent.

Sea Breeze

It's a fulfillment of bible prophecy! The Water$ of Babylon are drying up. Sometimes people are just so gullible that the State has to step in and provide a little leadership here. We'll see if this catches on. I believe it will.

Douglas Hofstadter quote: How gullible are you? Is your gullibility ...

Biahi

I’m just wondering, how many JWs are in Lithuania?

St George of England

According to 2023 report, there was a peak of 2,945

George

FragrantAddendum

https://youtu.be/7n5mpo1SUh0

LV101

Awesome.

Balaamsass2

Thanks for the post Barb.

No doubt Watchtower will appeal. I think the public perception of JWs has been changing with the easy availability of information on the net. Years ago co-workers seemed to think JWs were some minor religious group of pleasant door knockers who dressed better than Amish. "Amish with make-up". With all the various news stories and criminal convictions, JWs are frequently referred to as a doomsday "Cult" now, with a walled headquarters in upstate NY.

It will be interesting to see what happens next.

Vidiot

Yup.

You can thank Waco, the Hare Krishnas, and the Heaven’s Gate loonies for the general public’s perception of what a “cult” looks like…

…polite, well-dressed door-knockers got an easy pass.

Two and a half decades into a century that wasn’t even supposed to exist, though?

All the increasingly poor decisions they’ve made trying to navigate and survive in an environment they never thought they’d even see have brought them to the “nightmare” stage of “wishful thinking” (any newbies should absolutely Google it, it’s a real eye-opener)…

…and turned Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Watchtower Society into a “toxic brand”…

…which, ironically, wasn’t even a thing when they first started out.

😏

Jehovah’s Witnesses fail to get state recognition in Lithuania

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