Did they also 'ban' CB radio when it was a fad?
They don't ban things as such, just demonise 'em so any self-respecting JW would 'choose' not to use them.
Awake 1977, 3/8 5-9
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Also, in view of the sound Biblical principle that "bad associations spoil useful habits," can one say that because many of those who use CB equipment are not lawbreakers, foulmouthed and immoral, one is justified in spending a lot of time on the air with them for other than purposeful information? Would you pick up a telephone, dial any number at random, and associate with whoever answered??1 Cor. 15:33.
It is worth while to consider the practical outlook of the Bible on this matter: "Someone will say, ?I am allowed to do anything.? Yes; but not everything is good for you. I could say that I am allowed to do anything, but I am not going to let anything make me its slave." Hence, one would not want to become enslaved to one?s CB equipment any more than to a television set or to any pursuit that can squander valuable time.?1 Cor. 6:12, Today?s English Version (1976).
If a person has a CB radio for his personal or secular business?fine. But why not use it as a tool, not a toy? "If the individual CB user would be a little more polite, a little less talkative, not trying to hog the airways," says the FCC?s head of CB operations, "it would make our problem less severe. You know, there?s a lot of people who don?t want to talk indiscriminately; ?they have installed their units for a very specific purpose." Certainly this is the view that a Christian would take.
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