It goes on and on but as far as telling her what I know I guess I hold my tongue... anyone know of this?
Butterflyleia85
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Persecution toward Jehovah's Witnesses; Charges against them valid?
by Butterflyleia85 inomg if only my mom's eyes could look through mine.
she just sent me this (as it is from jehovah's witnesses literture).
could it happen again?.
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Persecution toward Jehovah's Witnesses; Charges against them valid?
by Butterflyleia85 inomg if only my mom's eyes could look through mine.
she just sent me this (as it is from jehovah's witnesses literture).
could it happen again?.
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CLAIM:
Jehovah’s Witnesses are a destructive sect
because they break up families.
CONSIDER:
In any family, religion can be a sensitive issue,
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Persecution toward Jehovah's Witnesses; Charges against them valid?
by Butterflyleia85 inomg if only my mom's eyes could look through mine.
she just sent me this (as it is from jehovah's witnesses literture).
could it happen again?.
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Are the Charges Valid?
CAN you imagine being denounced publicly as extremist
or as dangerous? The very words are inflammatory,
for they call to mind some of the worst
crimes and the most frightening problems of our
times. The more the claim is repeated, the more the
people believe it. But does that make the accusations
true?
Jehovah’s Witnesses simply invite you to see for
yourself. We welcome you to visit us in our places
of worship, to get to know us when we visit you in
our door-to-door work, or to make our acquaintance
at work, at school, or in the community. Once
you do so, we are confident that you will wonder
why anyone would refer to us as dangerous or as
extremist.
What is the supposed basis for such attacks? Consider
three claims made about the Witnesses, as
well as a brief response to each.
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Persecution toward Jehovah's Witnesses; Charges against them valid?
by Butterflyleia85 inomg if only my mom's eyes could look through mine.
she just sent me this (as it is from jehovah's witnesses literture).
could it happen again?.
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CLAIM:
Jehovah’s Witnesses endanger the State by
sowing religious discord, claiming that theirs is the
only true religion.
CONSIDER:
Do you know of any religion that does not
claim to be the true one? After all, why would people adhere
to a religion if they did not believe its tenets to be
true? Really, then, all religions are equally liable to the
same charge. Perhaps it is more meaningful to ask, ‘How
are the adherents of a particular religion taught to treat
those with different beliefs?’
FACT:
Jehovah’s Witnesses are not a danger to anyone.
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Persecution toward Jehovah's Witnesses; Charges against them valid?
by Butterflyleia85 inomg if only my mom's eyes could look through mine.
she just sent me this (as it is from jehovah's witnesses literture).
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They are widely known for trying to live by Bible principles.
They thus reject all forms of violence. (Matthew 26:
52) They obey secular law. (1 Peter 2:13, 14) They endeavor
to make peace in all spheres of life. (Romans
12:18) A reference work edited by M. P. Mchedlov, Chairman
of the Expert Council for State Expert Religious
Studies With the Ministry of Justice, stated: “Jehovah’s
Witnesses view government authority as an arrangement
that exists by the permission of God. They do not violate
the law, they respect order, and they are law-abiding.”
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Persecution toward Jehovah's Witnesses; Charges against them valid?
by Butterflyleia85 inomg if only my mom's eyes could look through mine.
she just sent me this (as it is from jehovah's witnesses literture).
could it happen again?.
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not “enemies of the nation,” but
innocent victims.
The activity of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia was
legally registered by the Ministry of Justice of the
Russian Federation in 1991 and again in 1999.
In Russia today, there are over 157,000 active Jehovah’s
Witnesses in more than 2,000 congregations.
Another 125,000 people in this land enjoy
studying the Bible with the Witnesses. You may
have met some of these people, for they are from
all walks of life—ordinary, hardworking, honest
people. They may be among your relatives, neighbors,
coworkers, and friends.
Yet, recent news reports have made the shocking
claim that Jehovah’s Witnesses are “extremists.” Labels
such as this one and “dangerous sect” and
even “American spies” are widely repeated. Like
the phrase “enemies of the nation,” such epithets
may be used to prepare the way for persecution.
Consider the following.
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In February 2009 alone, prosecutors around the
country have carried out more than 500 investigations
of the religious activity of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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Private medical records have been illegally seized.
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Illegal raids have been carried out against public
religious meetings and meetings held in private
homes.
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Lawyers attempting to assist in the defense of Jehovah’s
Witnesses have been harassed and hindered
from participating in court hearings.
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Courts around the country have been trying to
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Persecution toward Jehovah's Witnesses; Charges against them valid?
by Butterflyleia85 inomg if only my mom's eyes could look through mine.
she just sent me this (as it is from jehovah's witnesses literture).
could it happen again?.
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Butterflyleia85
WITH those words, President Dmitri Medvedev
called on all of us to think seriously about what
happened during one of the darkest periods of our
history—the brutal repression of millions of our fellow
citizens. The President’s words, like the Day of
Remembrance, reflect a noble ideal: that recalling
the mistakes of the past should prevent those mistakes
from occurring again.
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Persecution toward Jehovah's Witnesses; Charges against them valid?
by Butterflyleia85 inomg if only my mom's eyes could look through mine.
she just sent me this (as it is from jehovah's witnesses literture).
could it happen again?.
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The purpose of this tract is twofold: first, to share
with you a part of that dark history that you may
never have been told about; second, to alert you to
a serious danger—that history might, indeed, repeat
itself. In fact, there are signs that the process
has already begun.
Scarcely mentioned on the Day of Remembrance
was the story of one religious minority that has
been active in Russia for over a century. This story
involves tens of thousands of believers who were
persecuted for their faith during those dark decades.
Innocent people were uprooted from their
homes and locked away for years in prisons and labor
camps. Husbands and wives, parents and children,
grandparents and grandchildren were heartlessly
torn from one another’s arms. Many were
never reunited.
That sweeping tragedy had small beginnings. It
started with the clever use of rumors, innuendo,
and baseless generalizations. Left unchecked, such
harmful words grew into lies and outright slander.
Then came the bans, house searches, arrests, show
trials, exiles, and incarcerations.
The very people who survived those nightmarish
years to see better times are now seeing the storm
clouds gather once more. A wave of false accusations
and terror tactics has again been launched
against them. What is happening? Is history really
about to repeat itself?
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Persecution toward Jehovah's Witnesses; Charges against them valid?
by Butterflyleia85 inomg if only my mom's eyes could look through mine.
she just sent me this (as it is from jehovah's witnesses literture).
could it happen again?.
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Butterflyleia85
AWave of Persecution
—Will It Return?
PERSECUTION is not new to Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Semyon Kozlitsky, the first adherent to this faith in
Russia, appeared in 1891 but was soon exiled to Siberia
for sharing his faith with others. In the 1920’s
and 1930’s, the Bible Students (as Jehovah’s Witnesses
were then known) were not many in number,
but they were already being persecuted. More
recently, the Witnesses were among those repressed
during the decades following World War II. Consider
a few facts.
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The persecution began with propaganda. Witnesses
were labeled as “anti-Soviet,” as “American spies,”
and as “enemies of the nation.”
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From 1947 to 1951, more than 9,000 of Jehovah’s
Witnesses were exiled to Siberia because of their
faith.
The last of the imprisoned Witnesses were released
in 1990. Thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses
were thrilled to have their reputation cleared, receiving
official documents declaring that they were,
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Persecution toward Jehovah's Witnesses; Charges against them valid?
by Butterflyleia85 inomg if only my mom's eyes could look through mine.
she just sent me this (as it is from jehovah's witnesses literture).
could it happen again?.
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OMG if only my mom's eyes could look through mine. She just sent me this (as it is from Jehovah's Witnesses literture)
Could It Happen Again?
A Question
for the Citizens of Russia
“Today is the Day of Remembrance of Victims
of Political Repression. . . . It is impossible
to grasp the sheer scale of terror that
swept across the country . . .
[ the ] millions
of ruined lives. For people executed without
trial or record; for people exiled and sent
to concentration camps, deprived of civil
rights for having the ‘wrong’ occupation or
the ‘improper social origins.’ . . . Let’s just
think about it: Millions of people died because
of terror and false accusations. They
were deprived of all rights, even the right
to a humane burial. For many years, their
names were simply crossed out of history.”
—President Medvedev, October 30, 2009,