Which we do every day on here when we talk about the WTS and you don't bat an eyelash. We all know that not every single Witness is a bad or evil person, yet we generalize all the time when we talk about how screwed up the religion is. Have you ever protested that? Not that I recall
:) Because that is a hopeless cause since this is an anti-JW DB. In like manner, I don't visit anti-Muslim boards and complain about them generalizing thier hatred of Muslims.
However, I have personally (face-to-face) at dinner expressed just such sentiments to another poster and his wife on this DB, and good luck finding a death-to-JWs post from me.
I do not rail against JWs. I will rail against a specific belief. And...uh oh...here it comes...I think JWs have some value in the world. A classic example is the young man I met this summer in Sacramento, CA. He studied with JWs while in prison for gang violence. His world from birth was so screwed up, that he had no moral compass. He needs the strict, uber-authoritarian world of JWs, or Mormons, or some other such religion, to give him a life plan. Could the blood issue cost him his young life? Yes. But he was on the road to certain death, and he would not have ANY hope of life, but for finding JWs or some other "cult."
My husband owes his life to JWs. He was deep into drug violence and was hiding in the Nevada desert to escape assassination when he decided to call the JW woman who had originally contacted him.
I'm not really sure what your argument is anymore. You vascillate from the whole (Islam is a cult and every member is indoctrinated) to the part (my Muslim dentist is cool and has the right idea).
Usually when arguments break down logically like that, it is because too much emotion is involved. I sense your passion and cry for justice, but your arguments are sloppy and in need of a re-write. That's why others too have asked you to post a bit more carefully.
Well, my mouth dropped open too when I heard her speak, although for a different reason. I was stunned beyond words that anyone who had lost a family member that day could possibly be supporting the very religion that had been responsible for my daughter's death. Something tells me that that woman is in the minority
She may be in the minority. That is irrelevant. Your post was about Amanpour's panel and you commented on how the parents who lost children must feel. Yet, you neglected to speak about the parent who was on the panel and did express her feelings. ??? Was it beyond you to to present an argument counter to your own? Was it beyond you say...while I don't understand her feelings and strongly disagree with them, there was one mother who made a defense of Islam.....?
I think we might actually be of the same mind, because I generally agree with your solutions. I don't approve of honor killings and think Muslims should integrate, and my Muslim friends believe the same.
I just can't deal with your emotions; however, being an INTJ, I do generally get along much better with men than women.
