Posted on 09/16/2011 7:22:53 AM PDT by Cronos
Building on Jim Coufal’s “The Role of Fear and Guilt in Religion,” it is a simple fact that the Bible does not prohibit blood transfusions. If you are bleeding to death, it is more dangerous to refuse a blood transfusion than to take one.
Bloodless surgeries are great if they can be elective. One-third of all trauma deaths are from blood loss.
Jehovah’s Witnesses elders will investigate and disfellowship any Jehovah Witness who takes a blood transfusion; to say the issue is a ‘personal conscience matter’ is subterfuge to keep the Watchtower out of lawsuits.
..Estimates of the number of men, women and children who have died since the Jehovah Witness blood ban inception in 1945 range between 150,000 and 250,000.
That bunch of homicidal cranks came close to killing my stepdaughter, with her crazy-azzed mother-in-law telling the doctor no emergency blood during a bad baby delivery, (Small woman, large baby), before we got there. If the doctor hadn't come back out to argue again...
That bunch of homicidal cranks came close to killing my stepdaughter, with her crazy-azzed mother-in-law telling the doctor no emergency blood during a bad baby delivery, (Small woman, large baby), before we got there. If the doctor hadn't come back out to argue again...
Years ago, would drive by the Watchtower printing plant in Brooklyn. Every afternoon, all employees would go outside for a required 15 min of “Sun.”
No one spoke, no one moved, no one smiled. It was like watching 300 zombies or a scene from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” with all their faces turned to the Sun.
It means they’re allowed to take all the components of blood separately but not the entire thing itself. They’re underhanded hypocrites to no end. I still have some JW related issues I’m still working out with my shrink, and it’s been 10 years since I left that cult.
Whoever this “Margo” is, in this letter to the editor, he/she seems singularly ignorant of the subject.
I used to work with 2 women who were JW. They would rather die than have a blood transfusion. I had a transfusion a couple of years ago after almost bleeding to death. They were horrified when they found out I had a transfusion.
it’s sad, they are wrong to thing this is consuming blood.
Perhaps that was one case, however, you must admit that blood transfusions are necessary in many cases — especially if you have lost or could lose blood?
CYC -- how can anyone justify the JehowahWitness philosophy that blood transfusions is wrong? That is biblically unsound.
Thank you for that explanation. Yes it is hypocritical.
I wish you well on your journey away from this group.
Thank you for that, I did not know that you are to report on one another (including your spouse) if someone is doing wrong according to their beliefs -- that's what the STASI did.
Concerns about the safety of the blood supply caused a movement among surgeons to either eliminate of minimize blood use, not out of religious objections but concern for an infection by an agent they couldn't test for except by it's association with Hepatitis C.
Although even heart surgeries had been performed without transfusions since the early 60’s concern over the safety of the blood supply propelled the movement toward bloodless surgery for strictly medical reasons apart from patients religious views. Today bloodless, no blood transfusion, surgery is common, far more so than even 20 odd years ago.
As to the necessity of blood use or not, I'm not a physician but obviously the number of cases where transfusion is considered necessary has diminished by miles just as the percentage of premature babies treated and surviving has grown due to medical advances.
As with abortion due to medical necessity transfusion of blood for medical necessity is a term proving obsolete.
I suggest you try one of the official sites first. I’ve found that to be a good practice. Then get back to me.
Let’s see your documentation. You can cite anonymous sources all you want, but until you provide any documented sources, please don’t push your lapsed religion here. There are a few of us on this forum who can spot a lapsed but fully believing JW from a mile away.
Since my comments weren’t directed to you or in response to any posting by you I feel no need to provide you with anything.
If you can return in a more civil tone I’ll consider it. Thanks.
Typical JW victimhoodism and avoidant behavior.
Come on, cyc, how can you believe this crazy Jehovah's Witness distorted philosophy?
Comparing blood transfusions to abortion is a false linkage. That's a false Jehovah's Witness linkage.
blood transfusion is needed at times -- do you seriously wish to argue that it is not? What kind of WatchTower issue tries to argue this?
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