From: asiivo@cs.joensuu.fi (Antti Siivonen)
Subject: Re: This is what the Jehovah's Witnesses do.
Organization: University of Joensuu
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:43:37 GMT

smith_w@apollo.hp.com (#Walter Smith) writes:
>As for Jehovah's Witnesses "not crying" if they *are* shunned by                
>family members and former friends,  that in itself says a mouthful              
>for the heart condition of Jehovah's Witnesses as a whole.                      
>If *my* family shunned me for the rest of my life because I chose               
>to follow my religious convictions, you'd better believe I'd be                 
>crying.  I'd be crying to God that they would understand what I was             
>doing and respect my convictions; I'd be crying and pleading to                 
>my family for understanding, so that my daughter would not be losing            
>out on a full extended family, etc.  I'd be absolutely crushed,                 
>knowing that the intolerance of people was causing everyone I love              
>and who loves me to be losing out on so much.                                   

	No, you are a wolf. 

>And the worst thing about it is, when a Jehovah's Witness leaves the            
>group over religious convictions, he is not being shunned for the               
>Kingdom of God at all; he is being shunned over membership in a                 
>man-made institution.  And that is a shameful, needless waste.                  
>What kind of people do we become when we dish out that level of                 
>punishment on an individual who choses to follow his own convictions?           
>What kind of people do we become if we see how crushed a person is              
>by being shunned, and we continue to do it?  What forces are we                 
>promoting when we do that?                                                      
	The apostates are Judas Iscariots. Catholics love everything apostate in
	Christianity. 

>I don't know *any* Jehovah's Witness who would do that.  Not suprising          
>when you consider the potential penalty...forced acceptance to                  
>doctrine, even when it is recognized that it may later be considered            
>false, cannot foster a spiritually healthy environment for the people           
>in it.  Of course, the people in such an environment can be conditioned         
>to *think* they *should* be happy, just because they are in the group,          
>and thus they might really believe they are happy; until something              
>happens to get them away from the controls of said environment, and             
>they "wake up" are rediscover themselves.                                       
	This can never happen as you've been told many times before. But you 
	are Satanist and you follow Satans path and you continue your reviling
	until you die. 

>    "Son, you believe the Wrong Thing.  This is the Right Thing that            
>     you should believe instead."  "But I don't think that Right                
>     Thing is correct."  "Look son, I am God's mouthpiece, and I                
>     have been commissioned by the Almighty God to dispense 'meat               
>     in due season' to you.  You need to believe what I say is                  
>     the Right Thing."  "But I can't just make myself believe                   
>     something that I think is wrong."  "That's it, son.  You                   
>     have a BAD ATTITUTE towards The Truth (tm) and to God's                    
>     visible representative (me).  Because of your ATTITUDE, you                
>     are now an apostate.  You will be shunned until you repent                 
>     of your attitude, and start believing the Right Thing."                    

	No, that is how your own rapist-priests tell. 
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