Jw's....confused.

[melv16]

My daughter is having her adopted daughter christened. All the family has been invited, including my Jehovah's witness nephew and family. They have refused to attend due to religious reasons.
BTW, it's going to be a catholic ceremony, as her husband is one.
Could anyone enlighten me on what those reasons are?

[Jackdaw33]

They don't believe in infant baptism.

[melv16]

Thanks, jack. I never knew that.
None of my kids are baptized, but it wouldn't stop me going to a baptism.

[2sp_]

They also won't enter any church or temple of any other religion. My maternal grandmother was brainwashed, sorry converted to the JWs just before my parents married. Granny couldn't enter the church to see her own daughter get married. How mental is that?

[wolf63]

I thought for a minute that your daughter was a JW and your granddaughter was being entered into their faith.

[hc4361]

My JW sister in law and her JW husband came to my CofE wedding and my children's Christenings, although I do know some JWs would choose not attend such events.
Shame not to supportive of your family even if their beliefs are different to your own.

[roopower]

I think they get a little confused sometimes. We had a JW family at the school I worked in and the children were stopped from attending the minutes silence on Armistice Day, supposedly on religious grounds.

[mibn2cweus]

Simply another case of, ♪♫ My God's better than your God ♫♪

[Jackdaw33]

They don't celebrate Christmas or birthdays either.When I was teaching there was a JW girl who was made to sit outside the school hall while the kids' Xmas party was going on inside. It used to upset me.

[OldBather]

JW's don't approve of any other religion.However,due to the Catholic church's beliefs this is the worst religion for JW's.I believe that they regard the Pope as the Anti~Christ.

[whiskeryron]

My bil used to know quite a lot about the Bible Old Testament & would discuss things with the Jw's who came around knocking on doors. One day he said to one of them '' if my little girl was desperately ill & could be saved by a blood transfusion, would you give some of yours '' & of course the reply was '' ooh no we are not allowed to do that'' My bil said what a bloody fine religion you lot are peddling, *** off & don't ever come to this door again.

[mikey4444]

JWs don't believe in a raft of quite ordinary things, and a naming or christening ceremony is just one of the weirder ones.

If they are not prepared to be supportive to a very happy event like this, are they really worth bothering with ?

[waterboatman]

The JW's are in their own little world and will not tolerate any other belief.

[grumpy01]

Must say I don't agree with their views and belief's.However I do admire their pluck at going round door to door day after day and having them shut in their faces.It would surely dishearten the average person very quickly.

[mikey4444]

I used the "disfellowship" ruse a few years ago, so I now rarely get any more visits from them, which is a dreadful pity, as part of me used to really enjoy arguing with these wassocks on the doorstep !

[Cloverjo]

I don't think they knock on doors anymore, do they? I think they stand around in shopping centres and hope someone wants to talk to them. My son loves to go and 'chat' to them when he sees them. I think he almost converts them sometimes:)

Sorry, going a bit off topic. But yes, as others have said, they are blinkered and 'my god is better than your god'

[OldBather]

Cloverjo,They knock on our front door about once a month,and as we live in the depths of the country they must think it worthwhile.

[mikey4444]

Jo....they most certainly DO knock on doors, or at least they do around here. But I have seen them walk past my house and plague the people next door instead !

[Cloverjo]

Oh, ok. I haven't had any here for quite a while. Mikey, they probably know they're not going to get anywhere with you. :)

I invited them in once some years ago. I didn't actually want to become a JW, but I was very sad and lonely at the time and they seemed like nice people :/ The woman told me that she'd had to apologise to the higher ones at Kingdom Hall for having a child while not married. I wasn't going to do that (I was a single mother) so I chucked them out.

[EDDIE51]

We have not had any knock on my door since I put the 'Save a life, Give Blood' poster on my door.
My late Father in Law was a JW, he would stay up in his bedroom all over Christmas and Birthdays rather than join the rest of his non JW family in the celebrations.
When I went to his funeral it was the only time I had been in a JW 'Kingdom Hall' as they call their churches . There was no music or hymn singing at all very strange.

[douglas9401]

Maybe try a new mouthwash, Mikey. :)