JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES RULES, RUINED JA RULE'S CHILDHOOD

by WTNightmare00 39 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  WTNightmare00

  Rap star JA RULE blames his family’s Jehovah’s Witness roots for ruining his childhood.
  
  The I’m Real hitmaker reveals he was never allowed to celebrate birthdays or Christmases growing up - and even playing with other children was a problem for his strict grandparents, who helped raise him.
  
  As a result, the rapper, real name Jeffrey Atkins, goes overboard when his children celebrate birthdays and special occasions.
  
  He tells Sister 2 Sister magazine, "I had a difficult childhood. My grandparents were Jehovah’s Witnesses, so, as a child I had to deal with no birthdays and no Christmases.
  
  "People don’t understand… It’s no Christmas, and it’s no being outside with other children that are not in your congregation. It’s a lot of rules that are hard on children." The rapper was "disfellowshipped" when he went to live with his mother and had been kicked out of the church for socialising with "worldly people", when he was 12.
  
  He explains, "When you get disfellowshipped, nobody’s allowed to talk to you… They all treated my mom like this f**king outcast because she had some drinks with her co-workers on occasion… That f**ked with me as a child."
  
  Document source:

  <a href="http://www.hiphop-elements.com/article/read/4/11660/1/">http://www.hiphop-elements.com/article/read/4/11660/1/</a>

  JA RULE, you're one cool friend man! Yes, he is a personal friend!
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  brinjen

  I've heard he wears two crosses on a chain as a symbol of being double crossed by religion...
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  noni1974

  I didn't know JA RULE was raised a JW.I don't blame him for feeling betrayed and double crossed.Weren't we all??
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  penny2

  Wow, if he was disfellowshipped at 12, he was baptized very young! How cruel to disfellowship such a young child. That would have cut him off from his grandparents who raised him, as well as from all the kids he knew in the congregation.

  Looks like he's made a life for himself though. Well and truly moved on.
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  Burger Time

  Oh man, so JW's are to blame for the load of crap he takes everytime he makes a album??? Why JW's why????
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  FreudianSlip

  Not celebrating birthdays and Christmases sucked, but it certainly doesn't equate with a bad childhood. Not being allowed to socialize with "worldlies" wasn't all that bad either. I guess my JW childhood experience was better than most. Now as an adult things changed, but that's because I was able to see the hypocrisy and lies (oh, and I REALLY wanted to have sex). Still, my childhood was not ruined. My parents did a good job I think.
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  Junction-Guy

  I'm glad he tells it like it is and doesnt try to sugarcoat it.
  
  My brother has told me in the past-"just face it, we were F-ed" Of course his language now isnt quite that extreme.
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  Smiles_Smiles

  I'm glad he is verbal about it too. I wish him peace.

  Smiles
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  Burger Time

  On a side note, does anyone thing his childhood might be in relation to his MC name? like Jehovah's rules?
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  WTWizard

  That goes to show that there is variability in how strict people were raised as witlesses. Those who had "weak" parents usually had more freedom, and hence they had a more normal childhood. Those include parents that allow children to go on class trips, have a lenient standard with music, and do not force the children to go out in field circus every damn chance they can and get baptized at age 6. Those people, while the witlesses did some damage, had it quite easy.

  Imagine, however, a child who has to go out in field circus every chance they get. They have to get up at 5:30 in the morning on a school day, stay out until time for school, come back out at 3:00 PM, get the most spankings and beatings for trivial meeting-related infractions, and whose every move has to be perfect. Beyond that, they are going to get baptized at age 6 no matter what it takes. Medical (and sometimes physical) needs are put on hold awaiting that "new" order that keeps not coming. They are often told that there is no way they are going to do anything but pioneer when they grow up. Even after they are baptized at age 6, they have to pioneer every time there are five Saturdays and/or Sundays or they get vacation from school. Those children have really had it horrible.

  Something tells me that Ja Rule was brought up on the strict side. If he was disfellowshipped at age 12, that tells me that he had to have been baptized before that age. I wonder if, a few years earlier, he was the congregation showcase for having been baptized at age 8 or 9 (or the circuit embarrassment because he should have been baptized at age 6). Either way, it was nothing but folly for his parents to expect him to perfectly carry the load of being a witless.

  By the way, I have supported Ja Rule. I have every single one of his CDs. In fact, once I found out that he was disfellowshipped, I whitelisted any new CD that he came out with as one that I would buy no questions asked. I also like Xzibit for the same reason (I heard that he, too, was a witless but busted out. And I recommend anyone that likes rap to buy his music as well.)