We brainstormed a while back on this forum and pooled our knowledge on how to recognize false religion. I think the list is worth reviewing and adding to if possible. Please feel free to correct and or add insights of your own to this list:
WRONG RELIGION
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 Brooklyn 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 believe that 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.
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 close to 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 must 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, someone 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 through 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 the youngest of the final generation are over 107 years
old.
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. when 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.