Just thought a review the following material many have contributed to might be helpful
You know you are in the wrong
religion:
1. when the all
important question is not: "Do you believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ?"....but...."Do you believe in the "Faithful
and Discreet Slave" appointed in 1919?"
2.
when you will be refused baptism if:
a. you don't
believe Jerusalem was destroyed in 607 BC (whereas all non-JW
scholars, all encyclopedias and all history books say this event took
place in 587 BC.)
b. you, like Cornelius, are a member of the
military.
c. you, like Daniel, Joseph and the Ethiopian eunuch
hold political office.
d. you don't believe the apostles went
door-to-door and that Christians are required to do the same.
e.
you don't believe there the majority of Christians running around
today are not part of the New Covenant, do not have a heavenly hope,
and are not Spirit-begotten or born again.
f. you don't
believe that finding and serving in the right organization (the one
with headquarters formerly in Brooklyn, now in Columbia Heights ) is
necessary to escape eternal destruction at Armageddon.
g. your
hair is too long or you are sporting a beard
3.
when window-washing, JC Penny
suit-wearing elders insist that THEY carry out and handle cases of
child abuse and NOT the trained authorities.
4. when your
organization holds NGO status in the Wild Beast of Revelation for 10 years
running.
5. when your leaders have a 100% failure rate
interpreting biblical prophecy...except of course when it comes to
invisible stuff.
6. when you have to surrender your conscience to men.
7. when independent thinking is labeled as sin.
8. when you are to encourage everyone else to question their religion, but are forbidden to question your own.
9. when you are told not to look into the past history, or failed predictions because that would not be " encouraging ".
10. when your religion enforces medical quackery such as forbidding vaccinations or organ transplants.
11. when you are forbidden to celebrate birthdays because thousands of
years ago, somebody died at a birthday party.
12. when you are
constantly told to wait on Jehovah for answers to your scriptural
questions and doubts.
13. when child victims have to jump thru hoops to expose a pedophile
14. when you have shunned your own children for the last 25+ years.
15. when you just had to suppress the thought that you might be in the wrong
religion.
16. when a generation can last over 100 years.
17. when you are denied life saving medical treatments.
18. when you are taught to distrust your own thoughts.
19. when you were told you didn't need college because you would not
have time for a career in this system and now you a card carrying
member of AARP.
20. when you can't figure out the current teachings
on which 'fractions of fractions of fractions of blood' are
acceptable to Jehovah.
21. when you find out that you and your wife made
love in the wrong way.
22. when all your
friends stop speaking to you because you visit web sites critical of the Watchtower
23. when you will be disfellowshipped
(spiritually executed) if
a. you don't agree that
rejecting the authority men in Warwick is worthy of excommunication
and shunning ex-JW family members.
b. you disagree with
any doctrinal position or change handed down from the current
governing body in New York.
c. you engage in any behavior that
could be labeled as "brazen", and you refuse to "repent"
when called before a kangaroo court.
d. you allow your child
to have a blood transfusion to save his or her life.
24. Humorous
Additions:
You know your in the wrong religion WHEN:
a. you find out that all your pioneer
friends shop at Goodwill, too.
b. your car now qualifies for
antique plates-- no sense buying a new one when Armageddon is
coming- very soon!
c. your Harry Potter Books are kept hidden
under a quilt, behind the cat box in the furnace room
d. you
casually say "i don't think the governing body is the true
channel" the room gets quiet they all look at you pointing and
screaming your cover is blown the alien controlled humans are chasing
you the last remaining human who still has a human brain.
25. when you see the words "Jehovah" and "Witness" juxtaposed.