The highlights from my study with Brother Hero:
Hero: “Well, how can I explain this, say you we’re not allowed to have milk, but you could eat the cream that is in the milk.”
“So I can have some of the blood then?”
Hero: “Well, hang on, let me see. Well, just because you take a shot that has blood in it, there is not much there. It is not like taking a lot of blood in a blood transfusion.”
I then told him that “my wife was RH- and needed a shot during her both her pregnancies. I read up on that and learned that it takes 38 to 40 pints of blood to make one dose.” I agreed that obviously that dose did not contain THAT much blood so it must have been taken apart. “However, don’t blood fractions come from blood?”
Hero: “I don’t know.”
“Well, I thought it did, where else can it come from and if it did, are we not taking in blood?”
Hero: “Well, you see, you know if you take poison it can kill you but if you take just a drop… um, wait a minute. Well, you don’t think a drop of poison is deadly, right?”
“Maybe, but if not could it not make you sick?”
Hero: “Um, well, well all I know is that the blood fractions in those needles are not enough, not whole blood.”
“Just a part of blood?”
Hero: “Well, we aren’t allowed to take whole blood, but we can take what can amount to just a drop,” he said as he was holding up his pinky to illustrate how much is enough.
“Who determines how much blood is too much blood?” I asked.
Hero: “Um, well, um… The doctors! They are the ones who give you the fractions, they’ve already measured it out.”
“I see, the doctors determine what it too much and what is okay,” I responded and he responded, “Right!” I tell you, the sheer lunacy of his comments knows no bounds. The doctor’s cannot be trusted and are lying but those same doctors can be trusted to determine how much blood is acceptable. He obviously knows NOTHING about the blood doctrine. I held back, he did well to hang in there this long so I decided not to plaster him on the walls too much. But I had to ask this, “Okay, if I were to become a Jehovah’s Witness, would I be allowed to donate blood so that its fractions could be used?”
Hero: “No.”
“Why not?”
Hero: “Because, blood has to be…” he wanted me to fill in the rest so I said.
“Um, poured out onto the ground?”
Hero: “Well, uh, yes, but it must be SACRIFICED!” Okay, I am like dumbfounded, does he realize what he is saying?
“So, any blood that comes out of my body must be sacrificed?”
Hero: “Well, not entirely, doctor’s can draw blood samples but we cannot donate blood because that blood must be…” leading off again and then he finishes it with, “SACRIFICED!”
“I see, well I guess it does not make sense to me because if I were a witness and I needed blood fractions who else can I get it from? Worldly people?”
Hero: “I don’t know,” he said.
