What About Works Without Faith?

by metatron 1 Replies latest jw friends

  • metatron
    metatron

    Yes, what about works without faith? This is one of those topics
    that exposes the sick, unspiritual nature of the WTS. They worry
    endlessly about faith without works (gotta keep selling magazines)
    but when do they concern themselves with works without faith?
    Apparently, real faith is not a priority with them. In the world,
    there are plenty of examples of religious devotion - without
    faith - for example, Jews who keep kosher and follow tradition
    but are personally agnostic - or Catholics who stick to traditions
    but personally have no deep conviction about any of it.

    And Jehovah's Witnesses with works but without faith?

    Teenagers leading a "double life" until they can leave home.

    Publishers who zealously put in hours and never miss meetings
    NOT BECAUSE THEY HAVE FAITH, but because they are obsessive -
    compulsive (lots of these! they love rules!)

    Drunken, lying, corrupt elders (more and more of these)

    C.O.'s who don't give a rodents' posterior about the flock but
    love the adulation.

    Any idiot who insists on "house to house" records and endlessly
    calling back on not-at-homes. (What? no holy spirit? Isn't Jehovah
    directing this work?)

    And of course, Witnesses who molest kids or cover it up ( I guess
    they don't have faith that God exists or cares)

    metatron (religion just becomes a series of habits, for some)

  • Jimmer
    Jimmer

    I know about that teenage double life routine. That was me in the seventies. Thankfully I pulled it off until I was able to go out on my own.
    Now I've got faith AND freedom! (Feels good.)

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