I escaped the Watchtower organization

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I was born and raised in the cult known as Jehovah's Witnesses. I did all that was expected of me including door knocking and in later life became an elder. Having been raised in the cult (yes, I can call it a cult for good reason), I never questioned my parent's choice. Why would I? My parents were the best.

Long story short. I had always had doubts about the cult but we were trained to put doubts aside as god would be displeased with us and more than likely kill us at 'armageddon'. As it turns out the God I feared......not loved but feared.....was just the brand name the watchtower publishing corporation had invented for itself. I saw the awful things that went on in the congregations and at elder level it became obvious that the JWs weren't a bona fide religion but being run just like a big business.

I could tolerate it no longer. When scripture was used to prove a JW law or doctrine I started to read around the verse quoted and soon discovered that 99.999% of the verses were ripped mercilessly out of context. The penny dropped. I had been brainwashed for 50 years.

Because I questioned the watchtower (not God I'll stress), I was excommunicated. So now no JWs are allowed to talk to me. As Paul said he counted it all as loss...so do I. All I ever had was 'conditional' friends.

Sadly, my wife and daughter are still in the cult. It put a great strain on my marriage. Not because I was causing trouble but all the vitriol came from my wife who was fully programmed to see me as being infiltrated by satan. In no way can a JW attribute mistakes or wrongdoing to their 7 leaders in Brooklyn. Therefore, I had become an evil worker of the devil. Hard to believe isn't it?!!?!?

I prayed to Jesus to accept me and I found a UK Baptist Church and I fitted in right away.

Anyway. I don't want to blather on but this is a minute part of my story. I also help out where JWs want to exit the cult.

Any questions on this cult please ask..........I know more than the leaders want me to know!

Blessings to you all.

[Les Brewer]

Sadly I know only to well about the Jehovah's Witnesses and yes you are right about the fact they are a cult.
I am so thrilled that you have been lifted out by God's mighty hand. I believe it will be through the spirit of God that will lift the rest of your family out of there too. We will be praying for you in regards to this.
If you feel led to do so may be you could share more about what goes on in behind the closed doors of this religion.

If its OK with you I would like to put a link on twitter & face book to share your testimony and as I said We will be praying for you and please have this reassurance that we are one big family in Christ Jesus.

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Thanks for the encouragement and I pray every day for the Lord to rescue my wife and daughter from the antichrist cult. My name is Paul. Mom and Dad actually named me after the apostle Paul.

Behind closed doors in the JW religion. JWs say that it's wrong to be superstitious and yet they are the most superstitious people I know. They see satan everywhere and seem disproportionately afraid of him. For me, he is an already defeated foe that is still very active and irritating. Yet the JWs are less confident in their god's protection and more afraid the devil will get them.

The congregations are full of gossip. The head elder (or co-ordinator), is often a bully boy. When desicions are made it's normally because the biggest bully got his way and not the direction of god.

When someone is accused of 'wrongdoing' (which can be anything from buying a lotto ticket, smoking or fornication), 3 elders meet in the back room of the kingdom hall to pass judgement. They use a secret elder's only manual and having pronounced their judgement they claim it's from the holy spirit that the desicion came. Oddly, the accused is then given 7 days to appeal. I mean what? 7 days to appeal the infallible desicion of God? That's when it dawned on me it's just a big business running on business models.

You can never have a true friend in the JWs as the love is all conditional. Say one thing that seems critical of the organization and all your so called friends abandon you. If a person was to express doubts in God then the JWs would rally round and 'love bomb' the individual doubting. However, say tou doubt the watchtower and your name is mud.

The secret elders book has instructions on how to deal with things. Sadly, paedophiles are never reported to the authorities and if they are deemed 'repentant' according to the secret elders' 'flock book' then they are let off. The congregations will never know that their children are associating with a paedophile that has escaped the sex offenders register. The paedophile can later on become an elder.

Sadly a paedophile that has been let off the hook is deemed more favourable a person than I am. All I did was express my doubts about the watchtower organization. I have never hurt a soul.

Happily Jesus is my friend and he's a better friend than all the JW friends I ever had.

Let me know what else you want to know.

Certainly link anything to FB and twitter. Thank you SO MUCH for your prayers.

Blessings to you. Paul.

[Les Brewer]

God Bless you for sharing this and keep believing that our Lord can save more & more people. Read this wonderful update from our friends from Uganda and how Lord recently touched 12 Moslem's and they turned their lives to Christ. www.friendsofjesus.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ymi&action=display&thread=316
Nothing is impossible to God.........

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I pray, in Jesus, that Paul's wife finds her loyalty in God and her husband, and removes her loyalty and herself from the hold that the watchtower society and her congregation has on her.

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I've had no personal experience with the JW, but instinct alone has kept me from their far reaching clutches, Nothing, and I really mean nothing ever sounded genuine to me...and I don't put much store in a Religious body that claim, their God and their beliefs are the only truths...There is only one God, and many nationalities worship him, in their own ways, and have done since time and memorial...God is there for all...
As Les Says nothing is impossible to God...