i assume you dont work in the medical profession? if you do your very old fashioned. sorry to be blunt. but im english, your argument is flawed i am afraid, you may be blinded as anger towards witnesess is ever increasing for whatever reason. but this is an old subject that will only go away when the MEDICAL PROFESSION and GOVERNMENT educate and promote the correct facts. i am not a witness, i WAS a bible study and my father is very respected elder. i see both sides but im afraid yours is very odd and un factual. if that is a word! you see blood very rarly saves lives, it increases disease through the globalization subject eg. virus in remote village in africa reaches londons black communities. it has happened. HIV the early stages can be missed in blood screening.
Jehovah makes it clear in leviticus and in acts 15; 28-29 how black and white. do you want it, if it was any clearer it would anger you that he thinks your dumb and it needs to be written word for word. like a childrens book.israelites were thousends of years ahead in their hygiene conditions because god knew that, if people had to drop a dump in the middle of the camp near food things like e coli would kill an unvaccinated population, cholora to! just to name a few of the possibilities. god had standards of cleaness... and washing your hands! how clever! except it isnt its just blatenly sensible!!!
blood carries thousends of diseases, and impurities. its a human fluid and its droplet and what do most severe viruses and diseases come in? DROPLET! and what the quickest way to infect? IV! so you see god was making it very clear that it was unclean. let alone that it represents life. because you just cant live without it can you? the answer is NO! two very good reasons why you should listen to god. youl piss him off and youl get ill most likely.
the fact is that most people dont want blood any more. because its dirty and trauma patients can have other blood less curing techniques even though they push it because frankly...its cheaper- a whole other subject. my sister could have had it but my parents stayed loyal to their god and her volume was increased another way. it saved her from blood loss.she only died because of other in curable problems.
so please do not critisize mr rutherford, or their god. they follow the bible the way it should be, they are respected in the medical world alot and have helped in pushing reasearch to a greater depth which has saved people from taking blood and therefor has saved lifes where they could have been lost.
one other point is it is a FUNDIMENTAL rule of a proper christian eg JWS not to have blood.
would you make a jew it pork?no
would you make a hindu eat a beef? no
i rest my case...never ever has anyone got the right to say jws like killing children.
people have left this subject in the last decade. i think you should too, most professionals in the medical field are being trained (like me a student nurse) to give medication with out blood transfusions.
i apologise if i seem rude and my spelling mistakes.
super hooper