Lainey-
Wow girl! After four years of being out that still send you that crap?
Baptized at 5.
by Lainey 78 Replies latest jw friends
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drwtsn32
I am still on this JW's mailing list,
Is it "Fellow Workers"?
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caspian
Not sure I believe this one Lainey.
Sounds like it has a ring of truth, but has been coloured up for email, sites such as The Virtual Gathering (a sickly pro JW site) actively promote this sort of crap.
Mind you at first I thought it was sweet little lainey describing what a good little witness girl she was
If it is who I think it is emailing you, then my suspicions are aroused even more.
Cas
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MrMoe
Unfortunately, with the separation of church and state, it would be hard to pass a law that interfered with a family's religious rights.
Well.. let them be baptized... but they should not be subject to being shunned for a choice made as a BABY! You know what I mean?
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wheres caleb?
I have heard stories like this before. As a parent, you are left wondering if you are raising your child correctly or not. Have I failed because my daughter didn't get baptized at this age? Sounds like a competition. To JW's, this little girl is probably regarded as a success story. She hasn't lived long enough. I used to hear young ones say that they were mature for their age, just because they had been exposed to things at an early age. That may be true, but their limited life existence betrays their true maturity.
This little girl may very well accomplish all her goals. Only time will tell.
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blondie
Yes, I understand, Mr. Moe. Unfortunately, that is part of the worship/tenets/doctrines of the JW religion too and the government feels they cannot interfere. I know it is not moral or ethical but it is legal. I was baptized when I was 16.
I was just reading the post about the young girls in a religion out west that makes them get married very young.
When I was an active JW, I never could understand anyone getting baptized who was under 16. Marriage, driving, drinking alcohol are all age regulated.
Blondie
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freedom96
Getting baptized as a child within the witness organization is a scary thing. What if they grow up to be normal teenagers? They could get df'd, and lose everything they have ever known, and maybe go further off the deep end without that support group.
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Badger
There's a lot of peer pressure to baptism, too. Not only do you have to try to please you parents, but If you're in a hall with a lot of youths your age, you're put up for a lot of comparisions. I baptized at 15, among the last. the average for the others was 13 or 12. When I made a move to handle mikes shortly thereafter, The elders clicked and said "I'm not sure...Brother Double Life and Brother Incompetent have been baptized longer than you.
I was penalized for pondering an important decision...my son is five, and there's no way I'd seriously let him consider making that kind of decision.
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MrMoe
I was just reading the post about the young girls in a religion out west that makes them get married very young.
HUH? Where? What age?
I am sick of relIgion in general and the abuse it gets away with!! There HAS to be guidelines. Something NEEDs to be done. What is next? Allowing minors to smoke tobacco because it is part of thier religion?
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Badger
Moe:
I do know of a far off sect of the Mormons that may endorse such teachings. Read "Under the Banner of Heaven" by John Krakauer. he talks about how they still practice polygamy and hold some of the really old school Calvinist and Mormon beliefs.