Awesomely weird Jehovah's Witness art
Boing Boing reader Mike Pence from kuro5hin.org says,
Mark's recent post about a Christian children's coloring book from 1954 pales in comparison to the horrific images of placidly smiling Jehovah's Witnesses standing before a burning world. (I grew up a JW -- what a mind job!) Many of these images are from books not primarily aimed at children, but children would be exposed to all these images -- as I was -- since they study right along with the adults at their endless meetings.Link to more Armageddalicious artwork that makes the baby Jesus cry.
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The first step that the Watch Tower takes in their indoctrination of their followers is to develop the concept of the "universal war" that all people are inevitably caught up in, namely, that Satan has declared war on Jehovah, and we are automatically on one side or the other; there are no fence-sitters. If you are not doing all that the organization asks, you are on the side of the devil. Everything outside of the Watch Tower is controlled by the devil, and all persons who are not Witnesses are misled by the devil and are bad or dangerous to associate with.
An unbalanced fear of the supernatural is encouraged. Witness children are told to avoid "worldly" magazines, movies, TV shows, music, etc. Any information critical of the Watch Tower is automatically evil and dangerous. Most doctors are evil for wanting to administer blood transfusions.
Children have nightmares about mom or dad having to refuse a blood transfusion. Everything is made to appear as part of a large conspiracy to destroy Jehovah's Witnesses. Satan is feared totally out of proportion to the role as represented in the Bible.
Thanks for letting me share this,Danny Haszard
I am a Jehovahs Wittness and i am a child and everything you have just said is not true, expessilly the part about blood, there are other thing you can have without having blood, and you should know that(if you where a Jehovahs Wittness). So all i have to say is that Jehovahs organization is a happy place 2 be in.
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Jehovah's Witnesses have largest turnover of recruits,have one of the highest attrition rates of all denominations.
Reports from TIME Magazine-""An even more extreme example of what might be called "masked churn" is the relatively tiny Jehovah's Witnesses, with a turnover rate of about two-thirds.
That means that two-thirds of the people who told Pew they were raised Jehovah's Witnesses no longer are — yet the group attracts roughly the same number of converts. Notes Lugo, "No wonder they have to keep on knocking on doors
Half of all the Watchtower related news now on Jehovah's Witnesses is either obituaries or Kingdom Hall construction.
The old folks who gave everything to the WBTS are dying off left and right cause no new system ever came (1975)
The Watchtower keeps on wheeling & dealing big money real estate
60-80% of all the young people are leaving the JW's
Watchtower dissident site http://www.freeminds.org
13,000 leave the Watchtower organization every month,find out why.
The Jehovah's Witnesses have settled lawsuits alleging church policies protected pedophile men who molested children for many years.
Frederick McLean is one of the most-wanted fugitives in the United States
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21917798/
its a real shame that you speak only half truths. You know just enough about JW's to create trouble. Yes, we have a large attrition rate, we also have the fastest growth! I know who you are, because I went through the same thing. I grew up associated with the truth, left when I was 18, and made the truth my own in my early 20's. I made the truth my own in the fact that I proved to myself beyond any doubt, that Jehovah's Witnesses have the truth(present tense) I too went through a time of pointing fingers and blaming everyone else for what I went through, but the truth was, I brought all of my own troubles upon myself. As imperfect humans, we have the tendancy to see others faults very clearly, as far as our own shortcomings, we are not so distinct, we make exuses, or validate the way we feel through some ill-fated experience. There comes a time when people need to grow up and worry about their own relationship with Almighty God and not overly worry about others. Just like with any organization that have imperfect humans within them, there are going to be cases where things will happen that will draw negative attention to them. However as a whole, JW's are experinceing unprecidented growth, and the reason that there are so many that leave, is they stubbornly refuse to adhere to God's standards. As far as the new system coming in 1975, come on, really, we're in the 21 century, it's 2008. There has been more than enough information brought to our attention to understand everthing that has transpired between then and now-once again, you would know that IF you were a true student of the bible. If you keep going in this course, the results will not be positive, you will sow what you have reaped.
It is not too late, seek Jehovah with ernestness! Change is coming, the question is, will you be there to see it?
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