I sent an e-mail to someone with points showing how JW's miss the point of the parable. I won't post it but if anyone wants to read it, you can pm me.
Here is the reply from a supposed loyal , faithful Witness.
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I have had your email in my inbox for awhile now, and today I just had the chance to read it. I must say that I find it somewhat cowardly how you have attacked my religious beliefs while maintaining your aninimity. I don't have a lot of time to reason with unreasonable people so I will be very brief. You come from the pretend "Christian" churches that follow christ's example only in word. But in reality you're actions prove that you're in no way christian. If you were familiar with the scriptures you would know that the practice of disfellowshipping is a practice that we were advised to practice. 1 Cor. 5:11, Ecc. 9:18, 1 Cor. 5:13. Jesus himself even rebuked the congregation in Thyatira for tolerating a woman named Jezebel. Rev. 2:20. Know too that noone is disfellowshipped from the congregation for any reason other than unrepentance. I know that none of this matters to you. Even if you are confronted with the obvious fact that disfellowshipping is how the bible tells us to correct ones and keep the congregation pure, you will still say it is wrong because you are weak. You are no doubt a fine christian until the heat gets turned up. Then you are a coward. Your religious practices are all an act. I want to point out too that you have missed the entire point of the story of the prodigal son. The prodigal son was welcomed back to his father's household AFTER he had changed his ways. That's the whole point of the parable. Do you think the father would have been so happy to greet his son if he had showed up staggering drunk with a prostitute on his arm? Come on. Do you not see how twisted your logic is? You should speak to someone who has been disfellowshipped and then welcomed back into the congregation after making changes in their lives. More often than not they will tell you that it was the best thing that could have happened to them. Still, this is not the main point. The reason that Jehovah's Witnesses practice this is because God tells us to. I think we'll follow his guidance and not yours. I hope that you can someday get past your hatred for Jehovah's Witnesses, and your overall bitterness in general.