Being "Free thinking" is not an option for Jehova's Witnesses
- threatening individuals with castigation (sic) if they don't toe the party line, in whatever form, is repression, regardless of the reason for it. Just because something has always been done doesn't make it right, and the reasons for doing something a few thousand years ago doesn't mean it has to continue.
Also, there it appears "degrees of Judaism" - not all Jews avoid shell fish, pork, tattoos, for example.
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Varmint, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:12,
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Nobody is going to force a Jew to eat Pork though.
Obviously the antiquity of a practice doesn't make it more likely to be right. But this is a religion that has been allowed to do its thing until now, and now we decide, it isn't right. Novelty doesn't make an idea right, either. It's our morals vs theirs.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:21,
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we used to burn people as witches 400 years ago too
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:25,
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yeah I think they should bring that one back,
get rid of Derek Acorah.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 23:26,
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