Watchtower & Religious Freedom – A Double Standard?
Feb 17th, 2010 by MrCult
We examine the July 2009 Awake magazine article, “Is It Wrong To Change Your Religion?”, and the double standards applied to potential converts, verses Jehovah’s Witnesses who are disfellowshipped or who conscientiously choose to leave the Watchtower Organization.
“no one should have to choose between family and religion”
Damn double moral!!
Bravo!
I usually can’t be bothered reading Watchtower vomit, for the very reasons pointed out here. Although the double standard is well understood by any JW who reads this article, they are brainwashed to believe that they are justified in treating others the same way.
Well my non JW Uncle is incensed by what he read in this Awake and is marching over to see my mother who has shunned me for changing my beliefs, to demand an explanation…..I am sure he will get a whopper!
JW’’s is a CULT. They are so two faced. Sure, this makes it out like they are okay, but they are not. The men are not held accountable to anyone. They can rape women and it’s all okay with them. They are a sick group of people.
I knew an ex-JW and she got ou and she was SHUNED by her friend and family that were in the JW’s.
A true Christian does NOT SHUN someone for chaning his or her belief system.
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I found it unacceptable to disobey Jesus Christ.
That is why I am no longer a Jehovah’s Witness!
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God is love: Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little children will be dashed to death right before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordes. For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off. The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows. They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children. Isaiah 13:15-18
“Disfellowshipping is not unbiblical,” neither is child abuse.
Disfellowshipping is not unbiblical, but should be applied for persistent, unrepentant immoral behaviour, not (for example) for not being able to believe that the Lord Jesus returned in 1847…
i have to say, ive seen alot of exjw vids and they are sensationalistic and exaggerated, but this one really objectively makes a point.
kudos!
i really dont understand how they can make this parallel so easily, when they indeed are guilty of the same thing and dont even address it in that article.
My parents are dyed-in-the-wool JW’s, and I am a former member. Their organization’s rules prohibit them from associating with me or even treating me kindly.
I shared the above quote with them, and asked for their response. It was like pouring water on a duck’s back. They don’t want to defend or discuss their religion with a freethinker like me.
I guess this Awake magazine quote won’t faze an old-timer but maybe it will help those having doubts and potential converts to see the hypocrisy.
Great video. Kudoz!
Awake, p29: No one should be forced to worship in a way that he finds unacceptable or be made to choose between his beliefs and his family.
This just cannot be a typo, or a mistake. There must be something in the making here. Great. Now I can leave with dignity and keep my family. What a relief that would be.
THANKS!!!
What a mess Martin Luther left behind..33.000 faiths as of 2009…all in contadiction with each other!! Its a deformation not a reformation.
Whoa ..hey ….hey Yo!!!!! I am assuming that “New Light” is here in the making for the Summer of July 2009. Actually…my version is “Extinguished Light” …which is darkness. Nice Video. the Exodus is on the way , alive and a kickin. Yeahhhhhhh
excellent vid!
Just another of the many teachings that don’t make sense if you think about them. The problem is that the Witnesses are taught to accept, not to think. All that “homework” they get just serves to distract them and guide their thoughts away from thinking on their own because the truth will make you free.
excellent vid
Terrıble illustration. Leaving JWs has nothing to do with robbing a bank. It has everythıng to do with recognizing untruths and following one’s conscience.
“All religions have consequences when members leave or rebel.” — Thankfully the others do not use these consequences when their members do something like eat birthday cake or give blood, or vote.
Welcome to the Orwellian world of the JW’s.
Can someone explain Proverbs 11:29. I’m looking for scriptures to show that biblically, disfellowshipping is wrong.
I’m a disfellowshipped JW, and wanted to know exactly the meaning of that scripture.
Can you break down Proverbs 11:29 for me?
Ido feel in my heart that this disfellowshipping thing is wrong, even when I was a witness, I didn’t completely stop talking to those who were. I’m trying to show my mom, how the “organization” does have wrong views according to the very bible they look at.
Thanks in advance. But the hypocrisy is sickening.
Double talk on the part of Jehovah’s Witnesses, again.
Excellent video, thanks for posting it. While I agree with the comment that no one should be forced to stay in a religion they find unacceptable, for the watchtower to make it is so hypocritical.
Beware the false prophet!
Well done video!
5 Stars!
Just because your family shows intolerance of your decision to become a JW does not justify JWs intolerance of those who in good conscience decide to leave.
Using your logic, Catholic’s wrong actions justify JWs wrong actions.
RifterX is right. You portray it as righteous for others to leave their religion to join yours but it is blasphemy to leave the WTBS. I spent 34 years as a Witness, I have lost everyone including my own children. God is love, He does not hate. You preach hatred of those who leave, I have read it in the Watchtower magazine.
By the way-in all the 34 years I was a Witness, if you caught even watching a video like this you would have been counseled for listening to apostates.