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  A Mormon becomes a JW in the Feb 2013 Watchtower...

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  glancing through the feb 2013 "public" watchtower edition, an interesting article appears on page 8.. here is the pdf download link.... http://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=pdf&issue=20130201&output=html&pub=wp&langwritten=e&option=trgchlzrqvnyvrxf&txtcmslang=e.

  it's interesting how, in the story, the young man's jw aunt and uncle switch him from mormonism to the jw faith using third-party material (the nov 8, 1995 awake!

  article), and he ends up becoming a jw after confirming on the official mormon website that the claims in the awake!

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  Joe Grundy

  Thanks!
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  A Mormon becomes a JW in the Feb 2013 Watchtower...

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  glancing through the feb 2013 "public" watchtower edition, an interesting article appears on page 8.. here is the pdf download link.... http://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=pdf&issue=20130201&output=html&pub=wp&langwritten=e&option=trgchlzrqvnyvrxf&txtcmslang=e.

  it's interesting how, in the story, the young man's jw aunt and uncle switch him from mormonism to the jw faith using third-party material (the nov 8, 1995 awake!

  article), and he ends up becoming a jw after confirming on the official mormon website that the claims in the awake!

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  Joe Grundy

  This is an interesting article about the Mormons' 'Book of Abraham' and comments on their progress towards 'mainstream:

  http://richarddawkins.net/foundation_articles/2012/10/23/mormonism-in-the-mainstream#.ULNF3u_6msM

  (Sorry, don't know how to make the link 'clickable'.
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  Religious Genital Mutilation

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i never was a jw.

  i am an atheist.

  (i keep introducing my posts that way, but it's for the avoidance of doubt).. on an entirely different mb, someone just raised the issue of fgm.

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  Joe Grundy

  Thank you.

  This is an issue which I don't think we should overlook, however 'politically incorrect' it may be.

  I will be writing to my newly-elected 'Police and Crime Commissioner' but I don't expect any great response.

  In the meantime, here I am. To those who promulgate FGM - I condemn you, and if you do it in the name of your god, I condemn him as well.

  I am Chris Pope, of 27 Tudor Way, Haverfordwest, Pembs., Do your worst, I defy you.
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  Religious Genital Mutilation

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i never was a jw.

  i am an atheist.

  (i keep introducing my posts that way, but it's for the avoidance of doubt).. on an entirely different mb, someone just raised the issue of fgm.

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  Joe Grundy

  And, of course, it's so difficult (politically incorect) to question, let alone criticise, anything done in the name of religion.

  Well, here I stand. I absolutely condemn this practice. I condemn Allah or whoever condones this. I say that you are child abusers in the worst way. Am I allowed here to publish my name and address? Happy to do so against this vile practice.
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  Religious Genital Mutilation

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i never was a jw.

  i am an atheist.

  (i keep introducing my posts that way, but it's for the avoidance of doubt).. on an entirely different mb, someone just raised the issue of fgm.

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  Joe Grundy

  "Damage done to children---babies----no consent required."

  No, that's not quite right. Sadly, and in a life I'm glad to be away from, babies were abused. I never came across a case of FGM but if I had then believe me the abusers would have been arrested. (one benefit of being a UK cop, you hold power under the Crown under a personal oath and nobody but nobody can interfere with that).
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  Religious Genital Mutilation

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i never was a jw.

  i am an atheist.

  (i keep introducing my posts that way, but it's for the avoidance of doubt).. on an entirely different mb, someone just raised the issue of fgm.

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  Joe Grundy

  Thank you for the response.

  FGM has been going on for centuries, I guess. MGM has been going on for longer, all in the name of a bronze-age supernatural being.

  I can't give 'Awake' any kudos for this. They perpetuate the belief in a bronze-age (stone-age?) god that sanctioned this sort of stuff. Their religion, in promoting theit god, is just as culpable.

  Try standing up in a KH and proclaiming that 'Your God' sanctions lopping off foreskins and clitorae'. See how far you get.
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  Religious Genital Mutilation

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i never was a jw.

  i am an atheist.

  (i keep introducing my posts that way, but it's for the avoidance of doubt).. on an entirely different mb, someone just raised the issue of fgm.

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  Joe Grundy

  This was the link posted to another site which prompted my post:

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/nov/18/female-genital-mutilation-circumcision-indonesia

  (Sorry, don't know how to make it 'clickable')

  I spent much of my working life investigating child abuse. This, it seems to me, is as bad as anything. But to challenge it, because it's part of 'religion' is or seems to be unacceptable in most societies.

  Do you wonder why I count most religions as 'evil'?
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  Religious Genital Mutilation

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i never was a jw.

  i am an atheist.

  (i keep introducing my posts that way, but it's for the avoidance of doubt).. on an entirely different mb, someone just raised the issue of fgm.

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  Joe Grundy

  (Replying to my own post, sorry!)

  I really don't care what people choose to believe, their choice. What really winds me up is the damage done to people in the name of religion. And the fact that there is so much pressure NOT to criticise 'religion' as if it was off-limits.

  Well, it isn't, and I for one will criticise and make comments where I think it's due.
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  Religious Genital Mutilation

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i never was a jw.

  i am an atheist.

  (i keep introducing my posts that way, but it's for the avoidance of doubt).. on an entirely different mb, someone just raised the issue of fgm.

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  Joe Grundy

  I never was a JW. I am an atheist. (I keep introducing my posts that way, but it's for the avoidance of doubt).

  On an entirely different MB, someone just raised the issue of FGM. Horrific. MGM is no less evil, I suggest.

  By coincidence, I happened to watch a youtube Christopher Hitchens debate and this - poorly summarised - is what he said.

  'How many of us, seeing a new-born baby, have asked to be passed a sharpened stone so that we can mutilate his/her genitals?'

  We (humans, I mean) have a vehicle on Mars and yet this barbaric practice in the name(s) of discredited supernatural beings continues?
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  Ex Dubs Deserve To Be Happy Too!

  by Joe Grundy in

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  2. entertainment

  so here's a link to some good music - enjoy!.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sigjqbxgxr8&feature=related.

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  Joe Grundy

  So here's a link to some good music - enjoy!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIgJQbxGXR8&feature=related