It just doesn't add up (page 2)

Stefanie

Aztec,

In your JW story you posted the following:

"When I was almost 19 I met a "worldly" guy who I decided immediatly that I liked. I snuck out of my parents house to go on a date with him. The date turned out badly because he took my back to his house and raped me. I won't go into details but it was a very bad experience and destroyed any faith I had in a god."

Help me understand how God was supposed to protect you after committing such indiscretion?!

9 times out of 10 we bring about our own problems and God hasn't a darn thing to do with it.

IMO That was rather insensitive to say.

Sassy

It wasn't just one day, one thing. i left because I just plain didn't want to be a JW anymore.. and then I actually as I spent time here... you guys gave me reason to doubt and it all then started adding up. Not just one thing but everything everyone talks about here.

micheal

9 times out of 10 we bring about our own problems and God hasn't a darn thing to do with it.

You don't even know the whole story. How could you assume she brought this "problem" on herself?

Come on.

pettygrudger

My "adding up" didn't begin until after I had been out for 7 or so years, when I finally felt good enough about myself again to start reevaluating my spiritual side. I began with trying to "relearn" my JW teachings, but by this point I had a few friends that also had their own religious beliefs. As I began discussing "God" with friends, I realized that some of the things they were saying made much more sense then anything I had been raised to believe. Even Hindu based beliefs started making more sense.

I guess I just realized that it is an individual experience, and God bases his judgements on what we as individuals do, not what religion we happen to practice.

tink

Help me understand how God was supposed to protect you after committing such indiscretion?!

ummm, maybe god shouldn't have created imperfect human beings if he is so coldhearted as to wish rape on a person who maybe made a freaking mistake. (not that i believe in god, i'm being completely hypothetical here.)

Stefanie

I dont know the whole story, but going on a date doesnt mean she deserved that cruel inhumane treatment.

AZTEC Glad to know you. You go girl!

iiz2cool

DY:

9 times out of 10 we bring about our own problems and God hasn't a darn thing to do with it.

There is NO INSTANCE WHATSOEVER where a sexual assault is justifiable, or the fault of the victim.

In my opinion, someone who would justify a sexual assault is every bit as low as one who would perpetrate it.

Walter

xjw_b12

Michael:

The start of things for me was when I realized that the coniving, deceitful JW couple and their pathalogical lying daughter,who lived next door to us in the Duplex, where going to survive into "The New System" and the kind, loving, do anything, give you the shirt off of your back Catholic family next door to us were going to die at Armageddon.

btw Doubtfully Yours. Have you taken the test? What type are you? http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/64871/1.ashx

Doubtfully Yours

I'm not justifying any awful behavior. Just don't blame God for things he had nothing to do. Plain and simple.

DY

Nosferatu

I'm not justifying any awful behavior. Just don't blame God for things he had nothing to do. Plain and simple.

I doubt that was the point being made. For people who believe (or once believed) in God, the sheer disgust at what he allows to continue on earth is enough to turn people away from him.

Faith doesn't solve problems, it brushes them aside.

It just doesn't add up

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