Comments on: Returning to Eden: Futuristic Symbolism and its Effects on Jehovah's Witnesses

By: Rosina

Rosina — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:50:22 +0000

Good work!

This is such a hugely insightful article for someone who has not been a JW themselves. You actually ‘took me back’ to what it was like. And shed a little light on how the religion is strangely special. I was raised a JW from birth, rebelled as a teen and made an attempt to rejoin in my early twenties, before finally doing some research on the internet and reading Crisis of Conscience which enabled me to break free. (I’m now 30) As did my older sister.

My mum is still devout and probably always will be, and we have contact with her, but will always see everything through her ‘joho glasses’.

Thankyou for your article.

By: otto marconi

otto marconi — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:46:16 +0000

to ‘Not to be published’ below:

Hi amigos, please keep believing in what you stated, please stay with the joiaeuvaieh witlesses.

Hey! Faithful and Disgraceful Slavebugger (the governing-bloody-body of the witlesses), I wish to thank you for attracting within your enclosures so many morons, thanks really, cos there are too many already in the real world, so we can share the burden.

Bye

By: tsegaye

tsegaye — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:58:51 +0000

tank you i have read aweak . it very god.i have think money new thing.it agood news in aweak megazine.tanks your kingodam

By: John

John — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:57:52 +0000

Interesting statistics.

The one thing I would like to point out though is the statement, “Perhaps the most extensive persecution of the Witnesses in the 20th century was that of the Nazi regime in Germany a generation ago…”

This is somewhat of a misleading statement promulgated by the WTBTS themselves. At that time in Nazi Germany there were no “Jehovah’s Witnesses” per se; there only “Bible Students.”

Not all of the Bible Students were associated at all with the WTBTS at that time, or ever did become associated with it. The Nazi’s lumped them all together, and the WT does so also, to bolster it’s numbers.

I am a Bible Student, not associated with the WT at all. Our beliefs are quite different.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:48:24 +0000

feature often pointed to in the Watchtower publications is that Jehovah’s Witnesses have been persecuted and sometimes even been killed in some countries. This is true, of course. Perhaps the most extensive persecution of the Witnesses in the 20th century was that of the Nazi regime in Germany a generation ago, when 2,000 Witnesses were sent to concentration camps, 203 of which were executed and over 600 others died in prison due to diseases, undernourishment, and other causes. (The 1974 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses, page 212.)
But Jehovah’s Witnesses are not the only group that has been persecuted in this century. Totalitarian countries have often persecuted various groups of Christians. In the former Sovjet Union most and sometimes all Christian groups were forbidden and persecuted, and periodically thousands of Christians were killed in campaigns aimed at rooting out religion. On January 27, 1996, Vladimir Naumov, chief of the Russian commission for the restoration of victims of political oppression, revealed that half a million priests had been persecuted by the Sovjet State, over 200,000 of which were killed during the Stalin epoch! That is thousand times the number of Witnesses that were executed during the Nazi regim!
Not only totalitarian Communist countries, but also totalitarian Muslim countries have persecuted Christians and forbidden their activity. Where the activity of the Witnesses is forbidden or restricted by totalitarian governments, the activity of other Christian groups are usually also forbidden or restricted, although we don’t read much about this in the Watchtower publications. In fact, more Christians have died for their faith in the 20th century than in the previous 19 centuries combined! This fact is documented in the book, In the Lion’s Den (Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1997), written by Nina Shea, director of the Puebla Program division of Freedom House. The persecution of Jehovah’s
Witnesses in the 20th century, therefore, is far from unique or exceptional. Today, cases of persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses are rare and exceptional, as was actually admitted in The Watchtower of December 1, 1998, page 8

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:48:02 +0000

No wonder the bus is stopping to let you off.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:44:46 +0000

Although others have commented to your quotes, I note with reference that J’Ws are also losing members and that is fair comment. The fact still remains however that the preaching and teaching work by J’Ws has not been “overthrown” and continues throughout the globe. Can other religions make the same claim? And what harlot is this other person talking about? The one that he himself is riding on!!

By: D111115

D111115 — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:52:46 +0000

12 MILLION of those bloodsucking cult members by 2020????? That is worse than Katrina, the Asian tsunami, and 9/11/2001 all put together! Help!

By: fri

fri — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:13:18 +0000

And how can we obtain this vision of sense???Only by becoming a JW????

By: Juventus

Juventus — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:51:29 +0000

La buona visione del senso l\\\’interfaccia deve essere! Ottenere A! =)