NEWS BULLETIN: JW. ORG Asks: Can a Person Resign From Being One of Jehovah's Witnesses? JW. ORG Portrays a Resigning Witness – A man now wearing street clothes. The FAQ section on JW.

Can a Person Resign From Being One of Jehovah’s Witnesses?” In this NEW article dated June 9th 2. Watchtower gives their official explanation of how to handle matters when a person no longer wants to be one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It is, in my opinion, one of the most calculated, misleading and dishonest articles recently released on their website.

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The level of deliberate deceit on display is both appalling and astonishing. Follow along with me as I examine this FAQ article section- by- section, explaining in detail how it is both deceptive and misleading! Lies of Omission. JW. ORG Asks: Can you Resign?

The FAQ presents itself as answering two questions. The first is: Can a Person Resign From Being One of Jehovah’s Witnesses? It clearly targets members of both the public and the media, not rank- and- file Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW’s), and describes what happens when members leave the religion. The actual members of the organization already know what happens when they resign from the faith. For instance, this summer, JW’s are subjected to an extended campaign of shunning training and loyalty indoctrination.

It is vital to keep the following fact in mind. This FAQ is intended for someone who does not know the details about Watchtower’s policies. Therefore, the printed words are just as important as the words omitted or danced around. The FAQ responds to the question as follows. The first part says: Yes. A person can resign from our organization in two ways: By formal request. Either orally or in writing, a person can state his decision that he no longer wants to be known as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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By action. A person can take an action that places him outside our worldwide brotherhood. Peter 5: 9) For example, he might join another religion and make known his intention to remain part of it.—1 John 2: 1. And…what happens next? What happens when someone does this? Hello? FAQ? What happens? Silence. This part of the FAQ says nothing whatsoever about the implications for a person undertaking the above steps. It makes no mention at all of what the penalty would be.

Why is that important? It’s a deliberate lie of omission. Wikipedia defines a lie of omission as: Also known as a continuing misrepresentation, a lie by omission occurs when an important fact is left out in order to foster a misconception. Lying by omission includes failures to correct pre- existing misconceptions. What important fact has been left out? What misconception might this article deliberately be hoping to instill in a reader?

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Well, if you were reading this FAQ with no deeper knowledge of Jehovah’s Witnesses (which is the prime and deliberate audience for a write- up such as this) you might well walk away with the impression that such a person can carry on their life without any real interruption. You would have no idea that the Witness family and friends of this person were now required to completely shun such an individual. Watchtower even recently went so far as to instruct parents to throw mature children out of the family home should one become disfellowshipped, and to not even answer the phone when they call. Disfellowshipping is an involuntary removal due to perceived “sin”, but Watchtower commands Witnesses to treat disassociated, or resigned ones, ones in an identical manner to disfellowshipped ones. See Watchtower Study edition Feb 2.

Do You Hate Lawlessness. Below are two relevant paragraphs: 1. Do we share Jesus’ view of those who have become set in their lawless course?

We need to give thought to these questions: ‘Would I choose to associate regularly with someone who has been disfellowshipped or who has disassociated himself from the Christian congregation? What if that one is a close relative who no longer lives at home?’ Such a situation can be a real test of our love of righteousness and of our loyalty to God. If you face a similar situation, please remember that Jehovah sympathizes with you. By cutting off contact with the disfellowshipped or disassociated one, you are showing that you hate the attitudes and actions that led to that outcome. However, you are also showing that you love the wrongdoer enough to do what is best for him or her.

Your loyalty to Jehovah may increase the likelihood that the disciplined one will repent and return to Jehovah. Watch Dirty Harry Megavideo more. Clearly, there is a lie of omission, designed to craft a misleading impression in the minds of the general public, as well as any interested media organizations.

But it gets worse! The next part of the FAQ contains, not only an attempt to casually hide an embarrassing truth with sleight of hand, but an outright lie. Misleading or Dissembling Lies. Wikipedia defines a misleading or dissembling lie as: A misleading statement is one where there is no outright lie, but still retains the purpose of getting someone to believe in an untruth. The next question in the FAQ is: What if a person no longer preaches or attends your meetings? Do you view that person as having resigned?

Now, in last years Australian Royal Commission hearings, where the Child Abuse policies of Jehovah’s Witnesses came under devastating scrutiny, this issue arose during the questioning of Governing Body Member Geoffrey Jackson by Senior Council for the Commission Angus Stewart. It was put to Jackson that if a survivor of child abuse felt so let down by the Organization’s discredited policies (see the full damning report here) that they wished to leave the religion, they had no way of doing so without being shunned by their family.

Remember, the two official options for leaving discussed in the FAQ both result in shunning. What followed was a painful display of Jackson blatantly trying to misdirect the Royal Commission. He implied that someone who wanted to leave could simply stop attending meetings and it would be fine. He gave the impression that they would be viewed as having left or faded, and there would be no shunning. Angus Stewart, who had clearly done his research into Watchtower’s policies, stood his ground on this point, and using various scenarios he demonstrated that Watchtower viewed a person who simply stopped attending meetings, but did not “disassociate” using the two above methods, as still a Witness, and thus subject to Watchtower’s rules and discipline.

If such a person was caught violating any of their vast and controlling web of laws, they would be disfellowshipped or considered disassociated, and then shunned. Watch the full video footage below and decide for yourself the impression that Jackson is trying to give on this issue prior to being cross- examined by Stewart. Now, does the FAQ back up what Governing Body member Geoffrey Jackson initially claimed under oath, before he started wriggling under cross- examination? Or does it back up Senior Council for the Royal Commission Angus Stewart? What if a person no longer preaches or attends your meetings? Do you view that person as having resigned? In answer to this, this FAQ states (bold is mine)No, we do not.

Resigning, or disassociating oneself, is different from becoming weak in faith. This FAQ backs Stewart, not the Governing Body member who was giving testimony under oath. Was Jackson mistaken, misdirecting, incompetent or lying?

I will leave that to you.