Would you?

Half banana

Would you join a religion which punishes you if you later on change your mind and choose to leave it?

Would you join a religion which claims to be the only one guided by God and yet has always got their prophetic utterances entirely wrong?

Would you join a religion which changes its beliefs every few years?

Would you join a religion which teaches that all other religions are under the spell of Satan?

Would you join a religion which says that you must obey its ruling and deny yourself or your children blood transfusions which could save your life in a medical emergency?

Would you join a religion which claims to have the only way to get everlasting life?

Would you join a religion which claims that higher education is harmful and mocks critical thinking?

Would you join a religion which demands that obedience to its rulings is more important than the ties to your family?

Would you join a religion which rewrites its history to conceal its glaring mistakes?

Would you join a religion which uses Biblical precedents which allow pedophiles to go unchecked among its members?

I confess I did join but these things were not clearly explained before I joined. . .

MightyV8

Would you join a religion.....

NO full stop.

Giordano

An interesting way to frame a question that begs for an answer. Is this what a JW really believes? Or is this what the JW's are told to believe?

Would you join a religion that has a history of forbidding various life saving health decisions like Vaccines and Transplants?

Would you join a religion that forbids various sexual acts between consenting married couples?

Would you join a religion that has close to a hundred reasons, many of which you will never know about, that calls for you to be shunned for life by close family members and long time JW friends?

scratchme1010

Would you join a religion...

No, end of the story.

I confess I did join but these things were not clearly explained before I joined.

Which is what makes it a controlling cult, not just a religious organization.

Vanderhoven7

Excellent questions to ask people who are studying with Witnesses but haven't a clue!

I have a similar yes/no list to ask JWs to determine their honesty. I'll post later.

Finkelstein

Good poignant questions Half Banana .

If one looks objectively at the WTS/JWs one can easily see the corruption instilled into this religious organization.

It is a commercialized false prophet without question.

Sour Grapes

Even JDubs have not dwelt on those excellent questions.

steve2

Great questions - an emphatic "NO!" I wouldn't join - but I had no say in my grandparents joining.

No of course I wouldn't! The big question is, would I be allowed to leave such a religion after I found out it had lied to me and become disgustingly corrupt? Yes, but I would have to leave 11 members of my family behind and never see my nephews grow up, get married and have babies of their own.