Jehovah's Witnesses do not try to influence the political process by legislating their beliefs, imposing them on their non-Witness neighbors
Jehovah's Witnesses are staunchly apolitical and have no connection to what is commonly known as the "religious right." Jehovah's Witnesses would not protest an abortion clinic or lobby against the legalization of gay marriage. They are moral conservatives who refuse to fight in the Culture War."
I find this statement also misleading as it gives an impression that JWs are less fundamentalist than other Christian groups. In reality they fight the "Culture War" every day.
There are 1 million JWs (supposedly) in the U.S. If on any given month only one quarter of them did field service and could attempt to speak to 10 people about their beliefs, that is 1 percent of the U.S. population. If they repeat this monthly then they reach 12 percent of the U.S. poulation in a year. That doesn't include magazines deliberately left behind at the doctor/dentist/optomatrist/unemployment office.
The whole idea of their sect specific "Theocratic Warfare Strategy", is that not fighting a "Culture War" ?
The whole notion of shunning is precisely a "Culture War" which they are the one's who initiate through calling the Judicial commitee and excomunicating the individual to remove them from contact with the flock. Anyone who merely rigorously questions their culture is subject to removal and shunning.
More importantly it completely leaves out why JWs do not get involved in politics: Because they believe that Satan controls the wordly Governments and that the United Nations is the famous "beast" as referred to in Revelation. I wonder: If the maker of this documentary qualified his statement rather than leaving it open to misinterpretation the way he has (that JWs are seemingly less less fanatical than other Christian right wing groups because of their non involvement in politics) would that make the JWs seem as fundamentalist/fanatical or even more fundamentalist/fanatical.
For a guy whose mother is a JW he sure does seem ignorant of their beliefs. I wonder where the "Public funds" are coming from? Brooklyn perhaps? This may seem harsh but given the last thread we had on this and some of his comments that he wrote in his email he seems to have an agenda and a full, complete and honest expose did not seem to be it. I think it's great that he wants to portray JWs as people to not just "cartoon like" but does he have to be misleading to do so? In being misleading he completely insults what many of you nice JWDers have been through....in my opinion.
