Recent WatchTower article about Witch Hunting

by EverApostate 24 Replies latest jw friends

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  EverApostate

  This is about an Article in May 2014 Awake that was published about Witch Hunting. It is a 2 page article on how evil the catholic and protestant Inquision was, how wickedly they killed the witches and so on.

  http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102014166

  The Irony is, the article never quotes Exodus 22: 18 which says” “You must not allow a sorceress to live”

  I am pretty sure all the Witch Killings by Christians, was based on the above verse in the Bible.

  Do you see how the Watchtower deliberately deceptively and dishonestly hides this Bible verse here, throwing all the blame on those catholic and Protestant Inquisitors, as if they did it on their own.

  To a thinking person, there is nothing called a Witch. It’s all simple trickery. The people back then (Including the guy who wrote Exodus), were superstitious enough to think or duped that Witches had evil powers.
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  wearewatchingyouman

  I'm pretty sure this, along with other similar passages in Leviticus, were speaking of followers of YHWH, and the rules of social responsibility within the group. This wasn't to infer that you should go around killing unbelievers who practiced sorcery/witchcraft. I don't see it as deliberately irresponsible to omit such a verse from a lesson. If anything it'd just be further fodder that the Catholics/Protestants deliberately misinterpreted the bible to wipe out a competing belief system.
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  eyeuse2badub

  The wtbts version of witches are called "apostates". If the wtbts had their way, the would surely deal with 'apostates' the same way the catholic church dealt with witches. Every religion has their way of interpreting the bible and the wtbts is a religion, even though they at one time preached proudly and loudly that "Religion is a snare and Racket!" 'O the times they are a changin'. -bob dylan circa 1965

  just saying

  eyeuse2badub
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  DATA-DOG

  That article made me think of the "Witch-hunt" that I experienced. I applied the article to "apostasy" within the Borg. Torture is still in place in the form of shunning. The only difference is that the GB can't have you executed because the Governments do not allow it.

  DD
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  EverApostate

  wearewatchingyouman So, to whom is that Exodus 22: 18 verse applicable ? Can that be practiced today ? This verse, as I understand talks about common Withces and not about Witches in a certain group. If Catholics/Protestants deliberately misinterpreted the bible, what is the correct interpretation for this verse(atleast). Also, why didnt the WT mention about this verse and said it was misinterpreted.
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  wearewatchingyouman

  I don't know why they didn't mention it. As already stated above the laws in Exodus were only applicable to the people of YHWH under the "Mosaic covenant". None of these laws/punishments are applicable to anyone in the "new covenant", or any of the "people of the nations" at any time in history. This was all "old covenant" stuff.
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  eyeuse2badub

  Kill 'em all and let god sort 'em out! Yep.

  just saying

  eyeuse2badub
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  Oubliette

  "What does that ugly era teach us? One key lesson is this: When professed Christians began to substitute religious lies and superstition for the pure teachings of Jesus Christ, they opened the door to enormous evil." - Awake!, May, 2014, p. 13

  It is a tragic irony that JWs can so easily see the evil in others, but are completely blind to it in themselves.

  They even understand the cause of it.
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  Vidiot

  wearewatchingyouman - "None of these laws/punishments are applicable to anyone in the 'new covenant', or any of the 'people of the nations' at any time in history.This was all 'old covenant' stuff."

  Except, of course, the the "old covenant" stuff they like...

  ...it's why bigoted religious wingnuts can feel perfectly justified eating at Red Lobster, whilst waxing poetic about the "good ol' days" when gays stayed in the closet, for example.
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  DATA-DOG

  "... it's why bigoted religious wingnuts can feel perfectly justified eating at Red Lobster, whilst waxing poetic about the "good ol' days" when gays stayed in the closet, for example."

  Yes, while shaving their side-locks and deciding which virgins they will take for themselves..

  DD