My father is still in the truth but keeps in touch with me
from time to time. The other day, he sent me an email about how the Generation
could be a 120 years like it was for Noah. So, I responded saying that it’d be
a good thing if it turned out to be true; that he may believe it to be true, as
long as he doesn’t judge people who don’t feel the same way. In the end, all
that matters is love and good works.
He responded to my email, and, inline my comment, added “and
doing God’s will”.
This boiled my blood. He obviously meant: Going door to
door, regularly attend the meetings, anything related to the JW. So I sent an
email outlining how Jesus talked about doing God’s will in the Sermon on the
Mount. Jesus seemed more concerned about encouraging people to display love in
their day to day activities rather than actively take part in their religion.
On the contrary, he exposed the religious leaders for their hypocrisy.
Love and good works (baring good fruits) is “God’s will”. Preaching
is to actually encourage people to do God’s will. Religion is intended to help
people in doing God’s will. Thus, it is not, in itself, God’s will.
Anyways, I am oversimplifying a huge email exchange that I
had with him to the point that he said he wanted to wrap up that conversation
in person as he wasn’t sure he understood what I meant.
My issue here is that I need to have some respect from my
father… If he wants to keep in touch simply to let me know that God is
displeased with me, I don’t see the point of keeping that relationship alive. I
need him to acknowledge that if one day, I stand in judgement before God, I
will have the same odds as any other JWs he knows.
I felt compelled to leave the JW specifically for their lack
of love and their judgmental attitude over everyone. Now, I realize that my own
Dad could actually be judging me as displeasing to God simply for not being a
JW – nothing else.
