Bradley, logansrun, (I get confused when people have two names...)
I was raised a JW and got out in my mid-teens. Every potentially enjoyable thing that they'd railed against, everything they'd put up on a high shelf out of my reach, I simply had to climb up, take down, open up and try on. Drugs, all kinds, sex (yeah, even tried homosex, lots of suitors but couldn't get it up for another man), alchohol to the point that it cost me something, partied until I was jaded.
In all that, I never once felt then, or now, that I had no morality. I made some bad choices, there are a few (very few) things I would change. But I never lost the bearings on my moral compass where it matters: "Do unto others as you would see done unto you."
I never stole things from others.
I didn't have to become a liar to persue my pleasures.
I never hurt anyone for the sake of my desires. Didn't have to.
Never abandonned a friend in need.
Actually became more aware of my community, the value of volunteering, charitable works.
Learned to take responsibilty for events in my life, good and bad, rather than blaming Satan and his wicked sytem of things or praising Allah, Zeus, Jesus Christ, Jehovah God and his Faithful and Discrete Slave.
So Bradley, I'm asking, with great respect, in what way do you believe my recklessness, or indeed the recklessness of anyone else who left the JW's constitutes a move to "no morality"?
Eric