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Old 04-18-2012, 09:16 PM   #1
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Former Jehovah's Witness: Laurie's Story
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What would you do if you woke up one morning and realized that everything you've been taught, everything you've known, everything you've thought was truth was not. As a matter of fact, everything was a lie. And this lie was taught to you by the people you love most in the world, your parents. This has been what has been revealed to me over the last few years of my life.

You see, I grew up in a religion that claimed to be God's sole channel of communication to mankind on Earth. And everything pointed to us being right. In our religion we were taught not to smoke, not to drink too much, not to do anything contrary to the Ten Commandments. We were a religious people, and after all weren't we the ones that went out and preached the good news from door to door like Jesus taught.

We were taught that we were God's happy people. We were the chosen ones and every other church was "of the Devil", Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion. We were really special. This was evident by how we didn't salute the flag, sing Oh Canada, or celebrate pagan holidays. We were taught the cross was evil and that's why all the churches had them in them and on them. This would make us cringe as young people. From the time we were little we were taught to hate the cross, and to fear them and anything to do with false religion.

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You see, I grew up in a religion that claimed to be God's sole channel of communication to mankind on Earth. And everything pointed to us being right.
You should be heavily questioning yourself too then, right?
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You should be heavily questioning yourself too then, right?
My faith and trust is solely in The New Testament Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. He is The Way, The Truth and The Life. (John 14:6)

All other Jesus' are imposters - No question about it!

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My faith and trust is solely in The New Testament Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour.
Yeah, I know. That's what they all say.
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[QUOTE=hvp05;4807650]Yeah, I know. That's what they all say.

Who are the they in your statement "That's what they all say."?

Do you know?
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Why do you folks worry about what other people believe?
Can't you just be secure in the knowledge that your religious beliefs are the correct version and let other folks believe what they want?
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Why do you folks worry about what other people believe?
Can't you just be secure in the knowledge that your religious beliefs are the correct version and let other folks believe what they want?
That would make for about the worst bigot there is..

How could they be hateful loathsome bigots if they "lived and let live"?
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Why do you folks worry about what other people believe?
Can't you just be secure in the knowledge that your religious beliefs are the correct version and let other folks believe what they want?
Finally!! Something I agree with you on!
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