Posts by venus

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Atheism would not appeared if …

by venus in

· if religions were immune to division.

· if scriptures were immune to scientific errors.

· if religious leaders were immune to hypocrisy.

venus

David_Jay

My point is not about positioning of scriptures (whether it comes after or before the inception of religion matters not). My point is that atheists could not find a god that exerts power over religion, scriptures and believers. Atheists who have no problem in accepting things that are real would find no need to reject God if His influence were to be seen in religions, scriptures and believers. The very fact that we are all here shows that we left JWs because we found God exerting no influence over the so-called God’s own people.

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Two (circumstantial) lines of evidence for the real motivation behind the Russian lobbying?

by doubtfull1799 in

1. in bro sandersons latest video (in which he shows a very impressive skill with russian) he mentions two likely results of the imminent russian ban: the liquidation of the branch office and its assets, and the individual brothers capacity to worship freely.

no prizes for guessing which one gets mentioned first!.

2. why have the gb never attempted in the past, and are not interested in attempting now, such a letter writing campaign in other communist countries where the work is under similar restrictions, like china, or vietnam?

venus

More than loss of property, they may be worried how such a ban on sizable number of JWs by what they call the “North” King would misfire on their Bible prophecy—it would also mean that God is not interested in His people. Greatest worry may be about being shunned in a conspicuous way—people who popularized shunning is going to be shunned in the day light by most powerful country on the earth!

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Two (circumstantial) lines of evidence for the real motivation behind the Russian lobbying?

by doubtfull1799 in

1. in bro sandersons latest video (in which he shows a very impressive skill with russian) he mentions two likely results of the imminent russian ban: the liquidation of the branch office and its assets, and the individual brothers capacity to worship freely.

no prizes for guessing which one gets mentioned first!.

2. why have the gb never attempted in the past, and are not interested in attempting now, such a letter writing campaign in other communist countries where the work is under similar restrictions, like china, or vietnam?

venus

Ban news is out

https://sputniknews.com/russia/201703241051936483-religious-group-suspension-extremism/

The worst is yet to come: "On April 5 the Supreme Court of Russia is expected to decide whether the religious group should be banned outright in the country."

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What is in a name - God is Love

by Check_Your_Premises in

during my time dealing with the jw, i was always a bit annoyed by the whole "use god's name" thing.. one day i asked somebody the following:.

"if i murder and torture a child, and claim to do it in jehovah's name, who did i serve.

if i rescue, comfort, and help heal the same, and claim to do it in the name of satan, who then did i serve?".

venus

It's all amounts to not being able to understand what Jesus himself said in Mathew 7:21-23: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!"

Jesus has already disowned those operating in his name!

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Atheism would not appeared if …

by venus in

· if religions were immune to division.

· if scriptures were immune to scientific errors.

· if religious leaders were immune to hypocrisy.

venus

cold steel,

Your comparison would not make sense because of the following reasons:

Religion	Science
Belief in Supernatural	No place for supernatural beliefs
Has godmen	Does not accept godmen or anybody unquestioningly
Essence of religion is miracle	No miracle in science
Based on revelation	Based on Method of Science
Makes predictions that cannot be tested, as in astrology	Makes testable predictions
Religion is static – once formed never changes	Science is dynamic – evolves continuously
In religion, truth represents the opinion of its leaders	In science, truth is not somebody’s opinion. It can be verified, tested and validated.
No built-in correction	Built-in correction present
Questioning is not permissible	Questioning is one’s fundamental right
Godmen have answer for everything	Scientists do not have any hesitation to admit that they don’t know
Parochial	International
Divides the people	Unites the people
Inspired by emotion	Guided by logic

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Atheism would not appeared if …

by venus in

· if religions were immune to division.

· if scriptures were immune to scientific errors.

· if religious leaders were immune to hypocrisy.

venus

fukitol,

Yes I believe that Jesus was a humanist par excellence, otherwise he would not have declared the most revolutionary statement in Mathew 7:21-23 and 21:43. All the exclusive views seem to have been added later by myopic people.

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Atheism would not appeared if …

by venus in

· if religions were immune to division.

· if scriptures were immune to scientific errors.

· if religious leaders were immune to hypocrisy.

venus

I am sorry, heading should have been:

ATHEISM WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN APPEARED IF

One more thought on the word atheism:

The word construction of atheism is like the word asexual which means:

1. without sexual feelings or associations.

2. (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of gametes.

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Atheism would not appeared if …

by venus in

· if religions were immune to division.

· if scriptures were immune to scientific errors.

· if religious leaders were immune to hypocrisy.

venus

· If religions were immune to division

· If Scriptures were immune to scientific errors

· If religious leaders were immune to hypocrisy

When influence of God was not seen on the believers [which means believers were living without God] some decided to live without (a) God (theos), thus came the word atheism (a + theism).

That means theists created atheists. And in comparison with theists who mostly followed their parents’ religions, atheists are better because they have thought out life more than someone blindly religious. Interestingly, Jesus did not support even his own supporters (Mathew 7:21-23) because he knew that belief in God is not factor in the last judgment, but God goes by one’s humanistic attitude (Mathew 25:31-36; 8:11, 12)

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Pretend to support Critical Thinking, but forbid it when directed toward the "leadership"

by doubtfull1799 in

this from the latest watchtower article on propaganda:.

"keep in mind that satan does not want you to think clearly or reason things out well.

because propaganda “is likely to be most effective,” says one source, “if peo- ple .

venus

Matter is very simple:

Exposing the clergy of Christendom is right

Exposing those taking lead withing the org is wrong

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Did the serpent have legs before the curse?

by Acluetofindtheuser in

genesis 3:14 – “then jehovah god said to the serpent: “because you have done this, you are the cursed one out of all the domestic animals and out of all the wild animals of the field.

on your belly you will go, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.”.

the old gb and gb 2.0 differ on this matter.

venus

Genesis and Revelation both are allegorical. Characters are representation of human behavior. For example, hare and tortoise competed. Story literally never happened, yet we come across hare-like people and tortoise-like people around us.

Similarly, snake represents sin which can communicate with us in any form wherever we are, and yielding to sin brings misery. Once we succumb to sin, then we engage in shifting the blame which shows deep within us we are pure, hence sinning is alien to our nature. Sin destroys the self-respect and makes us feel ashamed.

Thus if you look behind the details, account would make sense. Literally, it doesn't make sense.