eight year old getting baptized!
(from a jw site.
this 8 year old sister was the youngest of the 31 who were baptized at a regional convention in bogo city, cebu, philippines on the weekend.
Steve2, that may be true, but here in Florida, US, a 10-year-old was recently baptized and everyone was sooooo happy! And it's not the first prepubescent baptism I've known about personally.
Child baptism...not just for religions of christendom anymore.
a brother was appointed recently in the cong, he's got a dodgy history, doesn't really have the respect of many in the cong.
it's surprising to me, but i don't really care, good for him.
my wife, on the other hand, is angry!
Steve2 gives terrific advice.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/25697590/three-injured-as-car-hits-park-bench/.
an elderly driver crashed into a park bench in mandurah, western australia today where 3 jws were sitting.
they had set up their jw cart and their literature was also strewn across the ground.. one of the jws was seriously injured with head injuries.. what a freak accident this is.. .
It's always tragic when accidents happen, and as Phizzy says we must live each day to the full.
That means NOT spending your life blindly following the false leaders of this religion. Get OUT OF HER, dear ones! Go LIVE life the way you were intended.
apologies if this has been asked before, but i couldn't find a thread where the focus was specifically this yes-or-no question.
reach back in your memories to when you were at the peak of your faith in the religion, and tell me honestly:.
"did you, personally, believe that non-witnesses would die at armageddon, even if they hadn't gotten to hear the message at all?".
Even as a piousneer, this bothered me greatly and was one of the reasons I began thinking more critically about jdub beliefs. So...No.
i got a call today from jw relative, wondering why i haven't answered correspondance.. no, i haven't called or written some jws in my life for a while.
i have chosen to not respond, or not quickly respond, to their inquiries.
yes, i've even blocked some from my social media and e-mail accounts.
Skeeter --- I hear you.
I have jdub family but have zero contact with many of them because there is just no point. It's crazymaking all around so it's better to go live my life and not even think about theirs.
Kudos to you for living your life.
just learned today direct from my beloved daughter that she has been abused between 5 and 12 years old by 2 brothers (her own cousins) and 1 family "friend".
she has attempted suicide a few days ago.
luckily she is living and she is not physically injured.
TFA and AB, so so sorry you've also endured this pain. I personally know the trauma and have experienced the jw cover-it-up routine.
HUGS to you and your children.
my question is prompted by a post of terry's on his own thread about a parable for jw's.
in that post terry shows how the standard jw response to any report of sex abuse within the borg is to use the "no true scotsman" fallacy.. i.e "he was not a real jw".. my question is for some time in the future, when the true, horrendous, extent of abuse within the borg is public knowledge, and the cognitive dissonance grows for jw's about this being endemic in "god's organization" for so long, how will they excuse it, or explain it, then ?.
how will they push away the obvious conclusion that jehovah must have approved of this going on, or he would have rectified it, not left it to the courts to pick up the broken pieces years later ?.
Exactly my point Pro, Jehovah must look on whilst His Elders, appointed by His Holy Spirit, rape children for year after year.
This cannot be excused as "imperfect men" within his Org. He appointed them, He approved their "two witness" Policy that allows Abuse to continue, if none of the former is true, it is not "God's Spirit Directed Organization".
If it is true, then Jehovah approves of Child Rapists.
Phizzy...AMEN.
danielle tumminio become a fan .
episcopal priest, life coach, and author of 'god and harry potter at yale'.
email.
Planning to see this! Thanks for the links.
aawa activists burst into a kingdom hall in kent.
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I think they'd do better to just put "JWs Support Child Molesters" bumper stickers on all the cars in the lot.
wt doctrine now says that there was no faithful feeding slave at pentecost, in apostolic times, ---but there is now, since 1919. previously they taught there was always a slave feeding -sometimes unknown , but an unbroken, if sporadic lineage.. while the early, and later christians (in this doctrine) had no discreet slave, they had a governing body.
the tradition of a (wt) governing body is older then the idea of "feeding my sheep".. governance over care.. are they working on an unbroken if sporadic governance of the congregation too?
we still feel the reverberations, consequences of the talking snake too.. .
ADCMS is totally correct...again. Great points, thanks for giving all of us some ammunition.
