19 Reasons why I am not a Jehovah's Witness.

Following on from my previous post, here are the 19 reasons that I sent to a Jehovah's Witness. I only spent about an hour putting these together for an email conversation I had with him, but I think 19 reasons should be enough. Nevertheless, instead of trying to argue with all of the 19 reasons, which would probably have taken forever, the JW continued talking about the signs of the end of the world, giving no explanation as to what evidence he had that the number of signs had increased at any point:

- The idea of punishment in the bible appears to be a mixture of a response to human anger and justice, rather than pure justice. The purpose of justice is to prevent bad things happening - pain and death are simply by-products. If this is not understood then consider too that billions of people have not had access to the bible ("truth"). Any way you look at it - it's unfair.

- The idea of a devil spending all of his time trying to manipulate people into doing bad things seems ridiculous. It seems like the devil would be doing more than God, and the things the devil is accused of trying to make us do seem more likely to be a result of our natural need to survive, be warm, and reproduce.

- The creation seems to contradict any kind of evidence as to how the universe came about and its age. Also, God made some very horrible animals & diseases, not just pretty things.

- Genesis 1 tells a story that seems more like a fairy tale than anything else: talking snake, fiery sword, snakes eating dust, etc. Also God's placing the tree there in the first place, and taking revenge on descendants doesn't make any sense.

- Had the bible been inspired by God, I don't think the ignorance of the writers would have remained, e.g. four corners of the Earth & contradictions like the time of Jesus' death.

- I've heard that JW's are not meant to be friends with non-JW's, especially those who have left. I believe we should all be treated equally, regardless of our religious beliefs.

- The religion is anti-gay. I think to be anti-gay is just plain wrong - one does not choose one's sexual orientation.

- The founder of the JW religion used a pyramid to create his prophecy. No-one's explained how this works, but it makes him appear to be a bit mad.

- The Watchtower has predicted multiple comings of Jesus, and Jesus never came.

- According to the new testament (mainly Matthew), there was supposed to be some major event like the end of the world in the first century. It never happened.


- The JW's have made their own translation of the bible to suit their beliefs. The Watchtower's reason for "The word was (a) God" is not the same as their reason when they explain to Greek people.

- JW's are expected to agree with the Watchtower. They are not given the freedom to use their own intellect to determine whether something is true or not.

- There are always excuses why God does not appear to exist: he is invisible, do not put him to the test, he only talks to people in their dreams.

- If one were to develop a hypothesis as to what would happen if a loving, almighty God existed, it would fail.

- All "miracles" which happen today, are only things which might have happened anyway: Cured sickness, safe arrival, safe medical procedure. The following miracles do not happen: cars running without petrol in emergencies, amputated limbs re-appearing, etc.

- Even my most desperate prayers requesting faith and understanding do not get answered.

- The bible was written in languages which most people do not know. We do not have the originals, so thousands of mistakes / variations have crept into the manuscript copies that we have. These are then translated by people with different prejudices, beliefs, understandings, etc. The original meaning is often debatable, or very difficult to understand.

- The decision as to which books should be included in the New Testament was made by people. We have no proof that they chose the correct books.

- There is lots of research to indicate that JW's are far more prone to mental illnesses than other people. This statement is neither a joke, nor intended to be offensive, this information comes from serious articles.

If, for some reason, you were extremely bored and made your way through my entire post, please dump a comment or two below this. I'm interested to know what people think. Ta :)

My Fascination with Jehovah's Witnesses

I have a fascination with Jehovah's Witnesses. They are like little wounded birds. When you try and help them they flap their wings as hard as they can to try and get away. I love them, and wish I could help them, but there doesn't seem to be anything I can do.

In case you don't know, and I also found this a bit surprising, but Jehovah's Witnesses have a particularly high tendancy to have mental problems. This is not an insult, this is a serious comment, based on what I've found on the net. Amazing how much you come up with by googling something like "jehovah's witness mental illness".

Here's an example

So, what can we do to help these poor, little, injured birds? I don't know, but here's something I've tried... and it didn't work, because the person I tried it on almost completely ignored my questions and moved on to other things. I asked these three hypothetical questions:

1. Hypothetically, if you had a daughter, who was scientifically minded, and therefore could not make sense of your religion, and chose rather not to be involved in it, but was kind to people and animals... If God chose to kill her and save you, would you consider that to be right and just?

2. Hypothetically, if you found out that a major teaching in your religion was a lie, and you could not convince others that it was a lie, would you stay in the religion anyway, or would you leave?

3. Hypothetically, if an international committee was set up for the sole purpose of figuring out the true religion, and consisted of the most open minded and intelligent people in the world, who spent their lives evaluating various religions, and testing them to see if their claims were true, would you join the religion that they claimed was true, or would you rather trust your own mind?

In my next post I will list 19 reasons why I am not a Jehovah's Witness, which took me about an hour to think up in order to send to the same person I mentioned above.

I know no-one reads my posts, but if you are no-one, please post a comment and let me know what you think about these thoughts of mine.