JWs Were Right About Something

by minimus 23 Replies latest jw friends

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  peacefulpete

  The current narrative within the religious elements of the far right is parallel to the JWs in claiming victimhood from oppressive governments. Both are spawned from paranoia and a need to justify hostility toward outsiders. Playing the victim is also a powerful emotional tool to cement sectarian/political bonds.

  REALITY: There is greater religious freedom now than ever before. More laws protecting freedom of religion, more legal precedent more public tolerance. Religion in many quarters is losing its influence due to greater freedom of information and individualism. The anti-Christian narrative within the political right is just as baseless as the JW's. What has been pointed to as governmental antipathy to religion is often actually an appropriate rejection of intolerance and bigotry by religious people in the workplace or public employment.
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  Sea Breeze

  
  

  Biden announced Tuesday he had chosen Dr. Richard "Rachel" Levine to serve as the assistant secretary of health for the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Levine enjoys cross-dressing, homosexuality, and divorced his wife to pursue this lifestyle.

  IMHO, at some point many churches will be shut down for not performing same sex marriage and allowing transgender employees....This is how conservative bible-believing churches will be ended. They will shut down and only the high liturgical type churches will exist.
  
  
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  peacefulpete

  Dr. Rachel Levine is highly qualified and experienced for the role she has been nominated. She also happens to be a practicing Jew. She also is transsexual. Her exwife is also a doctor. A psychologist who encourages "self-discovery, self-acceptance and improved self-confidence".
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  Zoos

  They got *THIS* right.
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  peacefulpete

  zoos...Vest pockets?..False prophets! lol

  And I don't get the connection to Jesus calling the dead. Are they saying Jesus would use a cell phone??

  btw..mobile phone technology goes back to the '20's and earlier so I'm guessing someone had a subscription to popular science magazine.
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  Sea Breeze

  

  This high school girl is receiving treatment from a similar "highly qualified and experienced" man with gender identity disorder.

  Her athletic dreams were cancelled so his delusions could be lived out.
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  Sea Breeze

  The Left, like Jehovah's Witnesses are a dangerous CULT that indoctrinates people with ginned up fanaticism, transforming them into obedient puppets filled with emotional rage and bigotry. You can’t reason with cult members, as they are immune to logic and facts. They live in a delusional bubble of contradictory lies and hate-fueled disinformation that’s shoveled out by the corporate media, the CIA and communist-infiltrated tech giants like Facebook and Twitter.

  There, I said it.
  
  
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  Diogenesister

  PeacefulP What has been pointed to as governmental antipathy to religion is often actually an appropriate rejection of intolerance and bigotry by religious people in the workplace or public employment.

  Absolutely. It’s not religion per sa they object to, but rather the loss of basic legal rights of their adherents. Such as victims of CSA and the treatment of apostates who leave the faith.

  Interesting Pete when you stated Dr. Levine is fully qualified for the job, (and more than likely was encouraged by her ex to be herself), someone posted something unrelated to the job of minister. A picture of a frankly dangerous (to anyone sensible) scenario of someone whose gone through male puberty with fully grown male anatomy, wrestling at elite level with someone who has clearly not.

  Now THAT is using emotion to counter an eminently reasonable initial statement.
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  DesirousOfChange

  Dr. Rachel Levine is highly qualified and experienced for the role she has been nominated. She also happens to be a practicing Jew. She also is transsexual. Her exwife is also a doctor. A psychologist who encourages "self-discovery, self-acceptance and improved self-confidence".

  (S)he is obviously fucked up mentally and has been unable to even accept who (s)he is. Many who pursue psychology are attempting to heal themselves. Guess it's still "a work in progress".

  (And we should teach our kids that this is "normal"?)
  
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  pontoon

  Big catch phrase lately is believe the science. So here's some basic science. If a person has testicles and a penis between their legs it means they're male. Chromosones determined that.