Posts by DevonMcBride

Jehovah's Witnesses view only themselves as true Christians. All other Christians are in the same boat as Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Atheists, and Pagans. In their view, being a Christian isn't going to score you more brownie points than an Atheist if you have no intention of converting.

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BIG NEWS - UK Gov't to Stop Watchtower Blood Teaching?

by skeeter1 in

this below just came up on the wire and is higher in rank than the globe articlethe watchtower is going into spin control overtimehttp://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?newsid=1725new rules could threaten charity status of jehovah's witnesses.

religious intelligence ltd, uk - 19 minutes ago.

several jehovahs witnesses charities in the uk expressed concern that the draft guidance could affect their beliefs on blood transfusion.

DevonMcBride

A spokesman for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society in the UK said: “There is no evidence that our view on blood causes any damage.”

Unnecesary death is plenty of evidence they are damaging. Wow!

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Possible threat to UK JW charitable status

by dozy in

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http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?newsid=1725

DevonMcBride

I hope it's brought to the Charity Commission's attention how the Watchtower purposely distorted secular information about the safety of blood transfusions.

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My Fiancé Can No Longer Talk to Me Because She is Becoming a JW

by reekster in

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i've been with someone for over ten years.

sounds like a long time to be engaged, but we were perfectly happy with the arrangement, knowing that some of the circumstances in each of our lives needed to be worked out before we could marry.

one day she told me that she wanted to investigate the jws.

DevonMcBride

Sorry about your situation. I read one of Steve Hassan's books and highly recommend it. The book titled Releasing The Bonds was written for those who have loved ones in a high control group. It's very helpful.

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$3.15 per gallon and rising!

by Outaservice in

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has gas prices affected your service time any?

outaservice (who had to quit altogether ) .

seriously, do you think it will affect the good ole society?

DevonMcBride

I'd be happy to pay 3.15 a gallon. In my area the cheapest is 3.26 a gallon.

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Talk with My Mom - My Elder brother Explains Bethel Changes to Her

by flipper in

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talked with my witness mom, 80 years old this morning - and apparently she is pretty stoked up about the bs my ex- bethel brother ( a cloned elder of 35 years ) said to her about all the changes at bethel going on.

obviously he still has inside ties at bethel.

to avoid being redundant ( as i know most of you have heard some of this stuff ), my mom explained to me that my brother told her , " they are selling off most of the buildings in brooklyn as in the next 3 years they plan to move the entire operation to patterson and upstate new york.

DevonMcBride

Apparently Watchtower doesn't believe the big A is coming in the next 3 years.

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LORRI MacGREGOR: "CANADA GAGS THE GOSPEL"

by Dogpatch in

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lorri macgregor: "canada gags the gospel"http://sharpens.blogspot.com/2008/02/lorri-macgregor-canada-gags-gospel.html.

lorri macgregor, co-founder along with her husband keith of macgregor ministries a christian counter-cult apologetics organization in british columbia, canada, will address the theme: "canada gags the gospel.

" the canadian government will not allow any critiques of other religions.

DevonMcBride

While browsing Lori MacGregor's site from the link in Randy's post, I found some things that looked a bit fanatical. Such as her stance against Yoga as an exercise.

http://www.macgregorministries.org/cult_groups/yoga.html

Yoga Exercises and the Christian

YOGA IS POPULAR

Yoga exercises sound so beneficial. Book shops and libraries are full of yoga books. Doctors, clergy, teachers, and professional people practice it. Yoga claims to work on the muscular, glandular, and physical nervous systems. Wonderful physical and emotional benefits are promised. Indeed, yoga is a complex subject, with many different types, but this tract will be confined to the Christian perspective. Many Christians practicing yoga have expressed indignation when its connections to Hinduism and Eastern Mystical Religions are pointed out. Some Christians even declare that when they are relaxing or practicing yoga postures, they keep their thoughts on Jesus, and are therefore protected. Both Christians and yoga teachers are heard to loudly deny that yoga is any kind of a religion, but rather a beneficial exercise.

PRINCIPLES BEHIND YOGA EXERCISES

In truth, yoga exercises are NOT just of a physical nature. They cannot be separated from their mystical, Hinduistic purposes. Yoga teaches that there are some 72,000 invisible psychic channels, which constitute another-dimensional body. This "subtle" body is claimed to connect to the real body in seven predominant places, ranging from the base of the spine to the top of the head. The teachings of Hatha (physical) yoga teach that at the base of the spines lies coiled a great serpent power called Kundalini. A former yoga teacher for ten years, and former vice-principal of a large yoga school, now a Christian, comments

"Every posture is designed to stimulate this power to uncoil itself and rise up through the nerve centers in the spine, which are closely related to the endocrine glands, until it finally reaches the pituitary gland--the thousand petal lotus--and when this occurs after long and disciplined practice, perfect enlightenment is achieved."

A Christian need not be instructed on the significance of the original serpent, Satan the Devil! (See Revelation 12:9)

THE PURPOSE OF YOGA

The purpose of the yoga exercise is to align the "subtle" body with the real one, and thereby alter the consciousness of the practitioner in a specified way. The positioning of the body in the yoga postures opens up the practitioner to "vibrations" which teach him the "wisdom" of yoga. As a person proceeds with the physical yoga exercises, it will not be too long before he is asked to practice the "meditation" along with the postures. Often, this begins with just an urging to "empty the mind of all thought", and then progresses into real Hindu meditation. Christian meditation as taught throughout the Bible is a FILLING of the mind with the words and precepts of God, and is the exact opposite of yoga meditation.

PHYSICAL BUT NOT SPIRITUAL?

Skeptical Christians should go to their public library and read ANY authoritative book on Hatha Yoga (physical yoga). These various books will make it clear that physical yoga is just the first step to spiritual yoga, and its roots are solidly in Hinduism. One Christian authority on Yoga, Mother Basilea Schlink of the Darmstat Sisters warns in a pamphlet,

"...every Yoga posture was originally designed to worship the Hindu god Krishna".

YOGA'S VIEW OF JESUS CHRIST

Jesus Christ is presented by yoga as just one of many great masters like Buddha, Krishna, and Mohammed. Yoga teaches that there are many ways of reaching God, all equally good. If Christians are seeking peace and relaxation in yoga, then they are seeking the world's way, not the Way of Jesus Christ. John 14:27 puts it well, quoting Jesus Christ,

"Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful."

The true peace from Jesus Christ sustains the Christian through all circumstances, not just while exercising or meditating.

IN CONCLUSION

Christians practicing yoga need to cease immediately, repent of it, and ask God's forgiveness.