Quote From: bar_b_quedI was raised a Jehovah's Witness also in the 60's from the age of two years old. I was not only "a good little JW girl" but I was loyal and faithful and believed with faith and conviction what I was taught.
I had my share of playground incidents and some left me running in tears from the yard. But I see it as no different than some other issue they would have teased me over on another day. And they did. I was a short , fat, red-head with freckles and a first name that had a popular rock song after it and a last name that Huckleberry hound made famous. I had a good healthy dose of constant teasing in my life. The times it was over my religion were only a part of the whole.
Being a Jehovah's Witness was nothing like being in this kind of atmosphere and had none of the all-encompassing factors that this group did/does.
To compare the two is self-serving and diminishes the trauma of the members who have left this "Family"
All religions have their frauds. You cannot find a religion that does not have some bad people in it because all religions have people in them and not all people behave well. I will not argue the level of offense the Witnesses may have committed, but I will argue whole heartedly including them into the same mesh with this "Family". To say they are nearly comparable is to take away from the very real experiences these brave souls are sharing with us and healing themselves from.
That's just my take on it.
(By the way? I left the Witnesses in the late 70's of my own volition and have half my family still in it.)
I have family on the eastcoast who belong to the Jehovah witness cult or church whichever you want to call it.
I have been told by several of my family members that they cannot talk to me if I am not a member of the church.
Is this correct?
If so.. what kind of so called church would seperate families like that?
God would not like this way of thinking .
