The only 'war' going on between most who have left the JW religion and the JW's is in the minds of the JW's. Most of us are content to have left and to have our lives to ourselves. I am just as content to let JW's be themselves as well. I can't say that I don't wish for the dissolution of the religion, but I can't say that I wish any harm on anone who is a JW and if they wish to continue to believe the religion it is fine with me.
The problem that the witnesses face is not from any so called "apostate", but from the incredulity of their beliefs. Apostates can't help that the ordinary witness might have doubts, merely through their daily life and existence as a witness, not from any idea implanted upon them by any so called "apostate". The witnesses time and again prove to their adherents that they have nothing to do with the God of the bible, that is, if you believe in Him. No banners on the outskirts of a convention are necessary to raise doubts, the faulty religion does all the heavy lifting there.
But the witnesses are facing an added problem. They have reached out to just about everyone they can convert at the doors. Everyone who is of the mindset to converting to the religion already pretty much has. Fewer and fewer of the adherents are coming from the general public, and more and more are the offspring of witnesses. There is an inherent difference in the mindset of someone who converted to being a witness and someone who was forcefed the religion from youth, someone who has seen everything through the eyes of a child, growing up in it, with a knowledge and understanding of the religion that someone who converts as an adult has a hard time attaining. And it is the children, the offspring of witnesses who will be the downfall of the religion.
Right now, most witness youth are living what they refer to as a "double" life, as opposite to a witness standard as can be when away from their parents and the Kingdom Hall. They have a support group in this so called double life in all of their other "double" friends. Should a witness youth decide to leave the religion the concequences are not so grave, most parents decide to go easy on their children should they become disfellowshipped, because of a little thing called "love". You might remember Jesus talked about it with the parable of the prodigal son. Many witness youths are putting off baptism, again because of their support group of other so called "witness delinquents". There again the consequenses for leaving the religion are even less.
So as more and more of the youth leave the religion and les and less people around the globe are able to be snookered into following the witnesses, both through saturation, the fact that the Witnesses no longer have an urgent date or time to sell and that they have become a more mature religion, with more information on them in the public arena than ever before. The witness will become marginalized, an unimportant blip on society, much like the quakers. They still exist, but nobody gives a crap anymore.
This of course will take many years, but it will happen. And it may not be in my lifetime, but hey, I'm not concerned. I'm no longer a member of that religion. In my opinion I already have been saved and my life has begun anew. Thank God. What things happen to the witness religion will only affect me in that I am now merely a curious observer when it comes to their fate. The very fact that they think that they are warring against the likes of me should say much as to their idiological condition.
I wish you a good day!
