Apostate Paul

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  Birthdays

  by 9thWonder in

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  i have been df'd for over 3 years (for the third time... you know it's the charm).

  i have an 8 year old who is being taught by my parents the same things that i was taught, including how we can't celebrate birthdays.

  i have been doing a little research on the origin of worldly customs, such as weddings and birthdays only to find that there are many wedding customs that witnesses have adopted that have pegan origins.

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  Apostate Paul

  It's now a "matter of conscience"? Wow, things have changed since when I was a JW.

  There really isn't any biblical admonition against birthdays; the JW's only instituted it as a rule to maintain crowd control in the Rutherford era. It's essentially an arbitrary, baseless regulation. And yes, it always mystified me that anniversaries and graduations were okay, but birthdays were not. Anniversaries and graduations, technically speaking, are artificial, manmade accomplishments and celebrations. Birthdays are pretty much unavoidable. Never got that.

  I'm amazed that there is, as Truthseeker indicated in another post, a creeping movement of liberalism in the WTS. I hope it continues.