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Originally Posted by cherrypye
I think my view of Witnesses is greatly skewed by the fact that my entire family (parents, uncles, aunts, cousins, paternal and maternal) are extremely devout practicing Jehovah's Witnesses. I pity them because they do not even have the ability to think for themselves anymore. I hold the organization responsible more than the sheep that just follow along because they've been brainwashed.
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I'm sorry to hear that, and I understand where you're coming from. I also have many relatives who are devout JW's, and it's difficult to even see them. Once someone leaves the "truth" (as they call it), then they are basically cast out like a black sheep. As for your earlier post regarding the lack of education that is so prevalent among this religious movement, I'd like to add something brief. A lot of people don't know this, but JW's do not believe in the use of guns or weapons (they quickly forget what happened when this country was founded), they disourage their sons from signing up for selective service. This is illegal, and is mandatory to attend college, so most of the young men involved in this church never step foot on a college campus. A lot of JW's think we're in the beginning of Armageddon anyway, so it won't really matter what they do with their lives.