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JerryBier's avatar

Religion poisons everything. Period.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

I wonder if it has ever occurred to any Jehovah's Witness that fellowship and comradery and love can be had without the cruelty that they inflict on those who opt out of their cult. I'm especially intrigued by this, as I just had a pair of JWs at my front door yesterday, who asked me my opinion of the bible. "Fiction," I told them, "and poorly written fiction at that."

Seriously, why would anyone join such an organization, knowing that their support and friendship was conditional on your unmodified agreement with the tenants of their faith? Obviously, THEY DON'T TELL YOU THAT, certainly not up front. What would happen, I wonder, if they were utterly honest about that policy with those who were candidates for conversion? The answer to that one, I suspect, is intuitively obvious.

Mostly, I think the JWs are a 19th- and 20th-century cult which is ill-adapted (if adapted at all) for the 21st century, the internet, and the fact that those doctrines and practices – ALL OF THEM – which they may keep hidden from newbies, are out there for all to see and know about. The two men who met me yesterday I suspect were surprised at my position regarding their belief system. I wonder if they are willing to recognize that more and more people like me are out there, and the chances of their garnering a new convert, especially out of Millennials and Gen-Z folk, aren't just thin.

They're anorexic.

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