Various thoughts and realizations....

by undercover 7 Replies latest jw friends

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  undercover

  If a religious organization has to publish an article on why it's not a cult, shouldn't that make you wonder why they have to defend themselves?

  Any organization that tells you that you can't trust any information about itself from any source outside that organization has to make you wonder if they are hiding something.

  Why join an organization, group or club that does not allow its members to leave later without serious repurcussions? Usually one thinks of crime syndicates, political upheaval groups, etc in these situations. Why should a religion have to resort to these tactics? If your considering a joining a religion that does, think twice about joining.

  A religion that spends more time teaching its memebers how to sell product than how to intrepret scripture is not a religion but a marketing organization.

  Factual information despite its source is still factual information. To discount true, factual information because you don't like the source is ignorant and foolish.

  Truth does not change.

  Religion is a snare and a racket (well, they got one right anyway).
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  LittleToe

  Religion is a snare and a racket (well, they got one right anyway).

  Yup, though they changed that opinion - new light, doncha know?
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  seeitallclearlynow

  Excellent, undercover! I couldn't agree more, on any point you made.
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  Stefanie

  What new light?
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  Joysome

  Truth does not change.

  Nor does it just come about one day from one single man.
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  Gopher

  What new light?

  In time, Jehovah's Witnesses came to the realization that they too, are a religion. So that "religion is a snare and racket" thing is not taught as a current teaching, but as a past view. They still teach that ALL OTHER religion is "Babylon the Great". But through miraculous divine revelation, THEY (of all religions) are NOT part of Great Babylon.
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  Stefanie

  Oh really? Its intresting how everything applies to everyone else but them.
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  undercover

  Oh really? Its intresting how everything applies to everyone else but them.

  Good point. Back in the early days, the Bible Students abhored being considered an organized "religion". Religion was a dirty word. That's when the phrase "Religion is a snare and a racket" came about. Fast forward many decades later(hmm, what happened to Armageddon?) now they consider themselves a "religion". The "snare and racket" thing has been dropped and they consider themselves the "one, true religion". They still manage to segregate themselves from the masses by labeling everyone else "false" and themselves "true".

  Maybe John Lennon was right, "Imagine no religion"