Samuel Herd... ''The Source of True Courage.''

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  RULES & REGULATIONS

  2018 “Be Courageous”! Convention

  Jehovah—The Source of True Courage

  

  Here is Samuel Herd on the subject, ''The Source of True Courage.'' He goes on to say,'' As world conditions worsen, all of us can expect to face greater tests of our courage in the future.''

  Here is a scenario Jehovah's Witness will confront to test their courage as for told in last days of '' the Great Tribulation '' :

  

  Seriously Watchtower Society? On what grounds will a policeman arrest a Jehovah' s Witness preaching? This photo depicts a Catholic woman calling the police to complain about what matter? That someone knocked on her door? She didn't like the subject matter? She had her own religion? Jehovah's Witnesses visit too often/ are a nuisance?

  Farfetched anyone?

  
  
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  Simon

  It isn't as far fetched as it was a year ago, with churches shut-down and threats of arrest for holding services when government wants everything shutdown because of COVID.

  I doubt JWs are going door-to-door anymore right now, of their own volition, for the same reason.
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  waton

  happened to a group of us in the Duplessi years. Protective Custody.

  Not really as bad as if they had used the crow bars they used to chase us with out of a nearby village.

  P.S: when you think of the execution in Europe during WW2, the rapes in Malawi, when the wt god did nothing, what else, worse can go wrong Sam?
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  RULES & REGULATIONS

  waton2 hours ago

  happened to a group of us in the Duplessi years. Protective Custody.

  Not really as bad as if they had used the crow bars they used to chase us with out of a nearby village.

  Can you expand on that information?
  
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  RULES & REGULATIONS

  PERSECUTION OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES IN CANADA: DUPLESSIS ERA

  From 1936 to 1959, Jehovah's Witnesses faced religious and civil opposition in Quebec. Historically, the Roman Catholic Church had been the dominant institution in the life of the province of Quebec and a major influence on French Canadian culture. It nurtured the young people of Quebec, in language and faith; and at the same time it endorsed the legitimacy of British rule and of the established economic order.

  For generations, the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec worked with the government, schools, and the courts to maintain the values and attitudes that supported the Church. This encouraged people to vote for politicians who favoured the status quo, the existing political, economic and social order.

  Under the premiership of Maurice Duplessis, politics and the Church were intertwined as the latter continued to maintain a firm and influential hold on the people of Quebec. Throughout his political career, Duplessis courted the support of the Church.

  After World War II, the Church came under attack by the Jehovah's Witnesses who challenged its doctrines. They were determined to seek Catholic converts. In response, the Duplessis regime mounted a campaign of persecution against Jehovah's Witnesses and communists. The result was a legal struggle between the Duplessis regime and lawyers such as Frank Scott and Pierre Trudeau who argued in defence of the rights of minorities.

  The clash between Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church became an issue of the competing ideas of freedom of speech and the freedom of religion. Jehovah's Witnesses went to court to establish the right to distribute their literature on the streets of Quebec. They also became political dissenters because during the Duplessis era, a challenge to the Church was tantamount to challenging the government. Any limitation of the Church's authority would mean limiting Duplessis's authority.

  Duplessis' efforts to rid the streets of Jehovah's Witnesses took the issue all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. The legal issues concerned freedom of speech as much as it concerned freedom of religion. The Supreme Court held that there can be no freedom of religion without freedom of speech.
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  waton

  Can you expand on that information

  RR: You did your R&R research and reporting well.

  In the rurals of quebec, wt foot soldiers were pretty much on their own. In one village, , were we had entered from all the different roads to flee easily, the priest got the carpenters working on the rebuilding of the Church. to literally grab their crowbars to chase us out, to our cars. (social distancing is not a covid invention!)

  The police custody, was prompted by such a nuisance call, like depicted in the OP

  Glen How send a warning, calling the gen d' armes "Enforcers of Her Majesty's laws", which did not go over well, and " If the priest has the right to ring Church Bells, we have the right to ring Doorbells".

  Wt warriors like he and Covington were very combative. provocative.

  Stuff like this is not going to prompt the angels into action.

  S. Herd is a more pleasant person to talk to than them bsw.
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  smiddy3

  I remember reading about those times in Quebec and the trials JW`s faced in the 60`s.When I first came into the "struth" as I now refer to it.
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  Drearyweather

  Happens a lot in India

  You can simply call the police and say that this person came to your door for 'religious conversion'.

  The word 'conversion' is enough to get you escorted to the police station, and get beaten, and then left off with a warning.
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  waton

  Incredibly, in circa 2000 a municipality in the same latitude, tried to have the police action again ( Blainville, shut down the tough Hell's Angels, but lost in court.) D Splane celebrated by playing the Grand at the hall.

  Valid point Dreary W. and how about the religious violence, ethnic cleansing in Armenia Azerbaijan again?
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  EverApostate

  The work of JWs are banned in Singapore, North Korea ,Saudi Arabia and numerous other countries.

  Let Jehovah show his courage there first.