What caused you to leave?
2006-09-13 08:10:43 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
EX JW here.
Was one for 30 years. Always had doubts, not just about their dogma but about the whole god thing. Asked questions they could not answer and was eventually disassociated.
Reading Crisis of Conscience by Ray Franz and doing research into the origins and past history of the religion was a big factor
2006-09-13 08:23:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness
From the time I was four till I was thirteen I was molested by my uncle. At fourteen I finally got the courage to tell someone what was going on.
I was treated in the congregation like I had done something wrong that some how it was my fault and I started going less and less to the meeting and just stopped going. No one tried to talk get me going back to the meeting or anything.
I found that with all there talk about helping each other and supporting one another that I was so alone when I needed people the most.
When I go and Visit my mother I will go to a meeting here and there. But I will never get back involved like I was back then, and never will.
2006-09-13 15:26:26 · answer #2 · answered by eve 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
(Proverbs 26:11) Just like a dog returning to its vomit, the stupid one is repeating his foolishness.
(2 Peter 2:21,22) For it would have been better for them not to have accurately known the path of righteousness than after knowing it accurately to turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them. The saying of the true proverb has happened to them: “The dog has returned to its own vomit, and the sow that was bathed to rolling in the mire.”
(Matthew 7:6,13,14) Do not give what is holy to dogs, neither throw your pearls before swine, that they may never trample them under their feet... Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm
2006-09-14 11:00:51 · answer #3 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why, are you one, or are you contemplating on becoming one? Do yourself a favor, just don't do it. Back away slowly from the Watchtower and don't look back. They are some very, very successful brainwashers and it takes years to get back to normal thinking. I stopped going at age 15 to the Hall because I saw the hypocrisy, the inconsistency and the bullcrap of their beliefs. They follow that Rutherford guy and take trips to Bethel in NY where people live and work for little or nothing. Their ways are just too freaky for me.
2006-09-13 15:17:28 · answer #4 · answered by duvaldiva.com 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I'll admit for awhile I had my doubts about it, but after alot of deep thinking and research....I'm positive that I'm in the right religion. For me, it was the only one that really made any kind of sense. We try to adhere (to the best of our ability) to Bible standards and guidelines. Sure, we're not perfect, nobody is...but from what I see going on in the world today... we seem to be the only ones that are trying to follow Bible standards so closely. That's why I'm proud to say that I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
2006-09-13 15:28:16 · answer #5 · answered by Rachel B 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
And Jahovah said "look" and God made witnesses.
2006-09-14 15:13:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋