Posted on 10/06/2011 4:44:34 AM PDT by Cronos
Detectives are investigating whether the article, published in July’s edition of The Watchtower, is in breach of Britain’s religious hatred laws.
The article, published in the magazine which is distributed by Jehovah's Witnesses across the globe, reportedly warned followers to avoid "false teachers" which it condemned as being "mentally diseased".
"Suppose that a doctor told you to avoid contact with someone who is infected with a contagious, deadly disease," part of the article stated.
"You would know what the doctor means, and you would strictly heed his warning. Well, apostates are 'mentally diseased', and they seek to infect others with their disloyal teachings."
..Angus Robertson, a former Witness "elder" from an undisclosed town in Hampshire, who was present at the meeting with police, told The Independent: "The way scripture is being used to bully people must be challenged.
“If a religion was preaching that blacks or gays were mentally diseased there would understandable outrage."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Any explanation from the leaders for this?
It is also the same with Liberals and their cult. They say do not engage with Conservatives lest you be corrupted. Just call them crazy or racist or terrorists or whatever you can come up with the demonize them. But do not engage them lest you be converted by their reasonableness.
Called the police on a newspaper article?
Did they call the waaaaaambulance, too?
Oh, please.
While I consider the JW to be a cult, they should be free to publish whatever they want.
People should be free to accept or reject it.
As for incitements to hatred and violence, I believe even the rabid Mahometan lunatics (redundant, I know) should be free to promote their sociopathos, as long as everybody else is free to be armed for their own protection against same.
I don’t want a nanny state.
I want to be left alone, to accept or reject whatever doctrine is out there, and to protect myself with whatever means I see fit against any pie-eyed, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathers stirred up by rabble-rousers.
great article. thanks for posting it!
...but the British should be ashamed of their utter hypocrisy. the actual words of the “Holy Quran”,
are orders of magnitude more
“in breach of Britain’s religious hatred laws”.
The Quran itself COMMANDS, by the words of Allah himself,
that apostates, gays, Jews, etc., be killed.
a Pastor was arrested in England, for telling honestly,
what the Bible says about homosexuality.
Jehovah’s witnesses condemn apostates, and are charged with “hatred”.
...Islam commands killing ALL of them. and it’s... crickets.
This is typical of all cults. The organization fears the exposure of members to the truth and the rank and file often follow their teachings regarding shunning for fear of what it will cost them. It is a means of control, nothing else.
I will say, that as many problems as I have with Mormonism, they rarely take their shunning to this extreme although the pattern and attitudes are very similar.
Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Scientologists, all the same. though it seems like the vileness increases from left to right
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