by nicolaou 24 Replies latest watchtower medical
BTs have saved millions of lives since its inception as a medical procedure.
Exactly. The WTS promotes its flawed blood doctrine as though abstaining from blood is a good thing when it is not. The WTS, in their promotion of bloodless programs, emphasizes the negative aspects of blood transfusions and ignores the life saving properties of blood transfusions.
Blood transfusions saves lives.
Blood transfusions saved my life.
Of course the JWS jump on this bit of biased information thinking Aha we don't need BTs after all, its all a needless scam, are no blood doctrine was right all along, thank you Jehovah.
Yes, it would be like the Amish using traffic fatalities as justification for riding in a horse and buggy instead of a car.
Sowhatnow. FWIW I personally know a man who as a teen was accidentally shot in his mammary artery. The ER desperately tried to save his life with blood, since most had been lost by then and his chances were extremely low. His mother had been prepared that he was likely going to die. Not only did he survive, but he has no lasting effects of such a blood loss. He is now a successful, happy member of society with a wife and children. So, being " that messed up" to need blood to survive is such a matter of circumstance that the blanket comment you made is not logical in relation to life after the procedure.
The reasoning for a JW to refuse blood should completely and strictly be in relation to the bible, ( which require massive, WT dictated, mental gymnastics) not health reasons and to avoid risks; not emotional reasons, strictly biblical is the only reason. Yet, the WT continually brings in health, risk, emotions, etc etc and now allowing fractions, which is completely absurd to the entire "biblical" reasoning.
** to add, I want to compliment leaving_quietly below for such a easy to understand, logical reasoning of the biblical instruction of mercy.
I usually don't comment on blood transfusion topics, mainly because my opinion on it has nothing to do with the merits of a transfusion versus not having a transfusion. My opinion more has to do with how WTBTS regulates this area of life as law instead of applying mercy. Christ showed what mercy meant when healing someone on the Sabbath. He said, "How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do a fine thing on the Sabbath." (Matt 12:12) Just prior to that, he said, "However, if you had understood what this means, ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless ones." (Matt 12:7).
OrphanCrow - "...it would be like the Amish using traffic fatalities as justification for riding in a horse and buggy instead of a car."
That's a really good analogy.
