Teach your Children (page 2)

The Quiet One

Stillthinking- I was only saying that so you'd know I had payed attention to your post, you'd already said it was disturbing.. This article is relevant, and well worth reading. http://www.freeminds.org/life-stories/rank-file/the-early-indoctrination-process-of-a-jehovah-s-witness-child.html

still thinking

only pulling your leg quiet one......your comment made me giggle

soft+gentle

good catch the quiet one.

I think this is a disturbing and distorting article...there is so much wrong with it.

Acts 20:7-12 tells us that Eutychus was a young man not a boy. Watchtower writers have always said that Eutychus was a teenager of about 16 and I have accepted this unquestioningly. But I think Acts 20:7-12 isn't talking about boys or teenagers as it uses the word neanias (young man) and not pais (boy)... so meaning someone over 18 and possibly in the range of 20-25.

In the article Eutychus sitting in the window looks to be about 14 but lying dead on the ground he looks to be about 20, when he is resurrected he looks 14 once again. Mixed messages from the artwork regarding age but very graphic and the write up is unmistakably linked to young children and very pointedly associates a child falling asleep in class (and at inappropriate times) with dying ... in the WT article the young boy shown in class is not even a teenager and JW parents are encouraged to teach this article to children.

I would not use it to teach children as it is sick and shamefully irresponsible. The individual who has written it knows nothing about children and is out of touch with what is appropriate to teach them. jehovahs witnesses ought to write in and complain.

eidt: the luke8: 49-56 scripture (the read scriptue at the end of the article) does use the word pais meaning child and jesus does resurrect a child. So this reinforces that when the christian greek scriptures want to convey that a child is being suggested they will use the appropriate word and when it wants to say young man and not child it will use the appropriate word. If Watchtower writers cared about children and were hearfelt about teaching children about love and obedience they would do their research ... they cannot plead well intentioned ignorance here.

The Quiet One

Soft+Gentle - It is inappropriate, I agree. Unfortunately, this is far from the only example of unsuitable material for children. Here's a few more examples.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/182526/1/My-Book-of-Bible-Stories-returned-for-being-too-violent-for-kids-You-Agree http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/156089/1/Witness-Kids-Scared-silly-by-the-WTBTS http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/197546/1/Inappropriate-Sick-WT-Awake-articles-over-the-years http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/148498/1/I-walked-out-of-the-Oral-Sex-instruction-meeting-today-anti-witness

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