Comments on: Has the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses Committed Blasphemy in Encouraging Young Children to Be Baptized? http://jwvictims.org/2015/05/14/has-the-governing-body-of-jehovahs-witnesses-committed-blasphemy-in-encouraging-young-children-to-be-baptized/ Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:34:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ekan http://jwvictims.org/2015/05/14/has-the-governing-body-of-jehovahs-witnesses-committed-blasphemy-in-encouraging-young-children-to-be-baptized/comment-page-1/#comment-6648 Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:58:50 +0000 http://jwvictims.org/?p=3135#comment-6648 I was 13 when I was baptized and doing so made perfect sense in my limited worldview. Baptism is a contract. There are questions that are asked and the candidate must affirm their agreement. “Do you understand?” When you say yes, you are agreeing to stand under that contract.

All 50 states require a person to be 18 years old before entering a contract. Parental consent is required, but is it consent or coercion that is applied? 2015 Convention said that toddlers are protected by the goodness of their parents at Armageddon, but after that you could be held responsible if you are not baptized. “If you are old enough to drive, you are old enough to get baptized.”, etc. Fear of destruction at Armageddon, denial of getting a driver’s license and similar tactics are coercion.

“Contract coercion occurs when a contract agreement is entered into under conditions involving harm or threats of harm. State and federal laws require contracts to be entered into “knowingly” and “willingly” by all parties. Thus, if a party signs a contract due to coercion, the contract generally will not be considered legally enforceable.”

Imagine a class-action suit by ex-JW’s to have their contracts nullified. It would also automatically move the minimum age of baptism up to 18. Those of us who are shunned could no longer be shunned. The implications are interesting.

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly http://jwvictims.org/2015/05/14/has-the-governing-body-of-jehovahs-witnesses-committed-blasphemy-in-encouraging-young-children-to-be-baptized/comment-page-1/#comment-6125 Sat, 16 May 2015 13:35:32 +0000 http://jwvictims.org/?p=3135#comment-6125 The Watch Tower Society claims to follow the patterns set by Jesus and first-century Christians. As you pointed out, Jesus, a perfect man, waited until the age of 30 to be baptized. “Regarding first-century Christians, historian Augustus Neander states in his book General History of the Christian Religion and Church: ‘Baptism was administered at first only to adults, as men were accustomed to conceive baptism and faith as strictly connected.’” (Watchtower 4/1/06, page 27) The Governing Body is deliberately exercising undue influence causing parents to exercise undue influence over their minor children to enter into a contract that they can never rescind without dire consequences. This is no different from minors who become Scientologists and who sign a billion year contract.

]]> By: Grace http://jwvictims.org/2015/05/14/has-the-governing-body-of-jehovahs-witnesses-committed-blasphemy-in-encouraging-young-children-to-be-baptized/comment-page-1/#comment-6111 Fri, 15 May 2015 04:07:57 +0000 http://jwvictims.org/?p=3135#comment-6111 I was thinking the same thing. I’m glad that there is someone that can put the words that most of us are thinking down & put it in a way that is hard to argue. The GB & their cronies are becoming desperate I think. The numbers might be dropping off in the western countries where they need future money donors & free labour.

At the end of the day, I hope that these kids will grow up & get educated at school about critical thinking skills & be aware of religious scams (cults) so that they can see the negative consequences of undue coercion. That way they can put more effort into humanitarian causes or the environment & science. We don’t need more people being trained to go around picking on other people about their faith, conning them to waste their lives on a fallacy or fancy buildings where people pretend to worship in. We need people that want to seriously help future generations. Religious scammers are not the answer. After all, Jesus said “you received free, give free”.

]]> By: Maria http://jwvictims.org/2015/05/14/has-the-governing-body-of-jehovahs-witnesses-committed-blasphemy-in-encouraging-young-children-to-be-baptized/comment-page-1/#comment-6108 Thu, 14 May 2015 21:29:10 +0000 http://jwvictims.org/?p=3135#comment-6108 I might be way off on this but just wanted to say , why baptized at that young age, in other bible, koran? believes a young age of maturity is 9 to 12 for marriage, I don’t know if any connections, but farther investigate to be done, if time will come and ISIS come in wanting to chop Christians heads, this child will know I got baptized, and will say and may get kidder by this methos, these ppl are trained to not care at all, child or not.alot of , and including JW they just don’t use the bible. The have at least 3 ways, can’t really explain but really look into Fritz Springmeir wriittings.. the JWS is a man made Religion, and the churches are the big part of the NWO. Really. If you refuse to research than you not giving hour own life and your family a change to see the real truth, and risk hour life for something that true and pure… Man made Religion is not at all what you think it is.so hope you open you eyes, and it’s on your shoulders to really understand what is really going on.no one should shun anyone, that is not helping that is the opposite, just like it’s a satanic ritual for not drinking the bread and we on memorial you are doing a satanic ritual by not drying it.. so much more to learn.

]]> By: Gareth http://jwvictims.org/2015/05/14/has-the-governing-body-of-jehovahs-witnesses-committed-blasphemy-in-encouraging-young-children-to-be-baptized/comment-page-1/#comment-6103 Thu, 14 May 2015 14:28:56 +0000 http://jwvictims.org/?p=3135#comment-6103 Good point. I don’t know if this specific instance is blasphemy; if it is, then there are many things that might be called blasphemy. E.g. the judicial committees (“decide if a person is properly repentant of their sins”, copied exactly from your article, lol). But it’s new to me that they put it this bluntly! Normally they would say something like, “Will you follow this loving direction from Jehovah provided through the faithful and discreet slave?” Means exactly the same, but then it appears to come from Jehovah instead of bluntly saying, basically, do you agree with us?

I’m happy he puts it this way, the more the mystery of the “faithful slave” is dropped, the easier people can recognize it’s a cult and following of men.

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