Jehovah's Witnesses

Earlier I have written about Hillsong Church and their use of people for their purpose to make money. You can read the article at the end of this article.(Vocal didn't allow me to publish it, with the reason of religious content, but it is not about religion, it is about a system using people for their goal.)

To be clear, I am not against religious beliefs in any religion, though I'm not religious myself, I am against communities that, use people and exclude people who don't follow all rules that the community has made and communities that have their laws and rules that are different from the rest of the society, or exclude you if you are homosexual or get a blood transfusion for example.

Now it is Jehovahs Witness's turn to be criticized. And yes, criticized, I have a low pardon with communities with a low insight and low humanity.

Jehovah's Witnesses is a great example of that. In Sweden, where I live, Jehovah's have state aid. That's insane, they have no insight and exclude people with other sexuality or for other reasons that the rest of the society has laws to regulate, because of people like them. Yet still, they have support from the government. That's crazy.

Jehovah excludes people they don't think have the right belief. And excluding means excluded from your family and your friends. If the family has contact with the excluded they risk excluding too. So most of them chose the Church before their children, relatives, and former friends. They are not allowed to have any contact at all.

Is that humanity?

They are in total control by the elderly in Jehovah's.

There is a lot of witnesses from excluded people who have been rejected because of their sexual orientation or if they have had a blood transfusion. And that exclusion is definitely. In Jehovah, blood is a symbol of life and that's why they don't accept a blood transfusion. So rather than being excluded, many of them have died when they needed a blood transfusion and neglected a transfusion. Isn't that to deny life?

The elderly have a big role in regulating members' lives and the rules they have to live by. Many rules depend on who is deciding what's right or wrong though they have a lot of written "laws" for all members.

I work with IVF and everyone who has been in contact with reproduction medicine knows that it isn't every oocyte that gets fertilized. A couple from Jehovah's made IVF at that clinic I worked on, and the elderly decided that only one egg should be fertilized. So we picked out 12 eggs and throw away 11 and fertilized one.

I can tell it didn't work.

Then we had Jehovah's from another Church and there the elderly allowed a proper IVF.

It is all depending on who decides.

I am a bit confused that the doctors listened to Jehovah's because it was treatment free of charge, paid by the tax. In Sweden, we have free IVF. And an IVF isn't cheap so I think if you are doing a free IVF you have to do a regular one with a chance of getting pregnant.

Women and children are subordinated to men. And all are subordinated to the Council and The elderly. Jehovah thinks the rest of the World outside Jehovah's community is satan and they shouldn't have any contact with the outside world.

The frightening feeling of being excluded from Jehovah makes them follow what the elderly desire. You are not supposed to have your thoughts about almost everything. They are not allowed to vote or have any political opinion.

To be a Jehovah's Witness is to live in the society, but not belong to the society, in Sweden, they get state aid and healthcare and so on, that seems ok for them. But still, they don't think they belong to the same society?

Men and women are not equal, and there is no democracy at all.

They have their interpretation of the Bible and a dogmatic sight of how to follow the Bible. They have been criticized for the mistranslation of the Bible. They also caution followers to stay away from independent thinking, believing that it was brought by Satan the Devil and would lead to discord. Those who openly disagree with the leader's teachings are labeled apostates with mental illness.

There are also witnesses of child abuse, silenced by the elderly. Due to Jehovah's it has to be two witnesses to prove the guilt! So nothing has been done to those facts. That is also a reason how dangerous it is when a community has no insight.

Religious freedom is important and to believe in whatever you want. But that doesn't mean that you have the right to have your laws and rules. And that you can reject and exclude people from their family and friends. And keep and silence members with intimidation propaganda. And act undemocratic and none equal.

Is Jehovah's Witnesses a sect?

I think so. Due to themselves, they are not, of course. They mean that a sect has to have a leader, and they don't, they have only one leader and that is Christ. I don't think it is true, the elders have a strong impact on the members and how they should live. Often with a subjective assessment. They don't collaborate with any other Christian society and that is also a sign of a sect.

To summarize, I think it is dangerous with religious communities like Jehovah's, most of all because of the undemocratic rules and regulations that members have to subordinate to. And the control of members by scaring them to silence.

In a modern world, it is obsolete.

https://medium.com/readers-digests/hillsong-church-pay-to-pray-7bc6ddc82d19