Happyman: I wrote a full response your post from Feb. 17, about 5 days ago, and not a few weeks as you claim. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=21833&site=3 I have been sick the last few days and reduced my Internet activity. The day I saw your post, I responded, but my ISP booted me just as I was about to hit the "post" button. I didn't write it in "Word" first, so I lost it ... and then forgot about it. I got your email, but found nothing in it that required I respond. So, here is my new response to your post:
"Why have you only negative things too say, wee all now that it is a lot of positive things too say abaout JW, the only religion who say no to war, and give there lifes for it too."Out of my over 1500 posts, I am sure you will find something positive about the JWs. I spent over 20 years thinking and talking only positive about the religion. And I have now spent about ten years speaking freely about its serious faults. The way I figure it, I have another ten years before I have to say anything positive again about the JW religion. Seriously, there are good people in the religion that I still love, and some few Watchtower doctrines, such as no literal Hellfire are good. Some few other Watchtower teachings are harmless fantasies. If that were all there was, I would not be here ...
The Jehovah's Witnesses are not the only religion to have a policy against going to war. Your statement reflects ignorance of what many other faiths teach. However, the JW religion likes to fashion itself after its fantasies of the nation of Israel, which was a warrior nation under Divine direction to murder other nations. But of course, with God directing things, murder is okay. The Jehovah's Witnesses are not against war, because they align themselves with their "false ideas" of Jehovah, whom they believe will go to war with all peoples at Armageddon, and murder billions of people. And the Watchtower also believes that they are in a "War" with this world and with former Jehovah's Witnesses. Granted, it is not a war fought with literal weapons, but I have little doubt that if the Governing Body asked JWs to carry weapons, they would do it out of blind obedience to the religion.
"The bibel say one peopel who come out from all this mess, and stad for the name of the ord, who else do this?True Christians: ... who look to Jesus Christ as "the Way, the Truth, and the Life" and "... no one comes to the Father except through Jesus Christ." Jehovahs Witnesses falsely look to their organization as the channel to God, an organization that is a false prophet condemned by Jehovah. As such they are not God's People. There are also many other professed Christian groups like Jehovah's Witnesses that think they are exclusively God's people, such as, but not limited to the Mormons, the Moonies (who's doctrines are very close to JWs). So this claim of the Watchtower to be some exclusive People of God is just that, an "unproven claim" that is just like hundreds of others.
"Noe here i can read, from a wery famus apostate, RW that it is okey to go out killing our brother, and as we all now many US menn have give there life for defenswar? as in wietnam , and son inn Irak , on the sweed news today, son US attack Irak. Wake upp peopel here, dont bee a part of these terribel things going on now, dont bee like Kain who kild his brother."Who is the famous so-called Apostate who says to kill one's brother? No one I know of says that. And certainly I would never kill my brother. Jehovah's Witnesses only consider their own religious members to be their 'brothers' ... so that is why JWs look forward to the day when they get to see Jehovah kill all other people at Armageddon, billions of people ... so Jehovah's Witnesses are hypocrites on this issue.
The Bible also says that Caesar (symbolic for Government) is God's Minister placed there by God to Execute vengance with the Sword. This was written to the Roman's by the Apostle Paul. Roman citizens, including Roman Christians, well understood this to mean the death penalty ... and this included military action since Rome often used its Army to keep civil order. Paul also said that when we stand against Caesar, we stand against God. Therefore, when the Jehovah's Witnesses stand against Caesar's intent to execute Justice, they stand against God himself. Are you saying that you are against God? You sound like an Apostate against Jesus Christ, who directly apointed the Paul as an Apostle to the Gentiles, including the Romans!
"jesus say love even you anemy. I think it is marvelus too find that it is one peopel on earth who is outside from all this mess,If Jehovah's Witnesses truly believe that, and what Jesus said in Luke 6, they would love those they call 'enemies' as former Jehovah's Witnesses ... and not shun us. Instead, in July 1992, the Watchtower came out in deliberate, willful, and repugnant defiance and disobedience to the words of Jesus Christ, and disowned Jesus by directing that Jehovah's Witnesses "Hate" former Jehovah's Witnesses (apostates) just as King David hated the enemies of Israel ... and we know that King David killed the enemies of Israel, murdered the wives of his enemies, and even the babies and livestock. So this is what the Jehovah's Witnesses stand for in total opposition and direct revolt against the command of Jesus to love one's enemies.
Dan 2:44 rev 6:14-17"
"I have think a lot of what happend on this site, and this enormus wind of terribel accuse , to JW. Evry religion have some things who nor is good, and also JW, but i think it is realy unfair to accuse JW for minor things as happend here, when none have anything too say abauot all this mess inn sverel bigg religions, as the war in Ireland killing peopel evry day, beetven Catolic and protestant peopel."Yes, most religions have flaws, some worse and some not as bad as the JWs. However, the Watchtower policies directing Elders to shield child molesters is not minor. The Society's false prophecies are not minor as they misled millions of people. The Society doublt standards between Milawai (not permitting JWs to hold civil cards) but in Mexico allowing JWs to hold similar civil-military cards caused the needless death, torture, rape and murder of thousands of JWs. The Watchtower ban on Blood has caused the death of many JWs. It is a false teaching. True, JWs are not involved in extensice terrorists killings as are the Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, nevetheless the JWs are guilty of murder. All religions in this issue are wrong.
"War in former yougoslavia where priests bless killing of musslims, and say it was good."The Priests in that case were wrong, just as Muslims who fly planes into buildings. Some few Priests have made serious errors. They are wrong, just as the leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses are wrong. The Governing Body wants all mankind dead at Armagedon except for a few million JWs. ... They are just as evil as those they condemn ... they just spin their doctrine to make themselves look righteous to themselves, just as radical Muslims believe they are doing God's will by killing innocent people in Allah's name ... they believe hey will go to heaven for killing people ... and the JW religion sets this up differently, but the result is the same.
"And the most terribel of it all, Ruwanda, the place where so calld free cristians have missionaris sens 100 year, and the catolic have a line too the goverment, what hapend, you all now this, millions of peopel killd, and why, have ther priests lernd them too show love even your anymie, i think this must bee a bigg burden on the judgment day for this spirutal leaders. Even if some problems could bee fond inn JW leadership in evry oing, it is fare from this terribel things made by many diffret religions."I disagree as I noted above regarding the Watchtower policies that led to the torture, rape and death of tens of thousands of JWs in Milawi. The JWs are not as guilty on as large a "linear" scale because they are still very small compared to other religions. But what they have caused may well be comparable on a "percentage" scale.
"One other thing , who comes that you on intenret is telling things saing to you in confidence?" IF you do the same thing for the company you work for, i think you have to quite same day. Yo seems too be a nice men, so this disturb mee very much, who can you do thing like that, isnt that to betrade a confidence."You need to be specific here. What confidences have I broken? I have never violated any confidences of my clients. So you will have to be more clear.
"You too look one some bibel books, james 4:11 5:9,13 . 1 petr 2:1. 2 petr 2:1-3, 3.3-4. 1joh 3:11-13 .Jud 11 -13,18I will look these up and make another post in a few days.
3joh :9,10. Thuis scripturs can we say a lot abauot, intresting to here you point of wiue."
"greetings happy man, still a JW, working for what i think is good. foregive mee my bad english."I respect your right to be a JW as you wish to believe. I appreciate your willingness to speak openly here on this forum. American JWs evidently are not as free to speak on the Internet as it seems JWs are allowed to do in Sweden. By the way, I find the Swedish company "IKEA" to be a very nice company here in America. Nice products at affordable price. Your English is fine ... far better than my Swedish.
I hope that you understand my comments above are not designed to be hard-hearted, or callous ... but they are designed to show how the Watchtower sounds to the rest of the world, only in reverse. But some of my points are also intended to show that the JW religion is acting in violation of God's holy standards. Hope all this helps answer your questions.