(March 21, 2014 at 12:52 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Threaten to leave and take the kids if she doesn't stop being stupid.
Make her choose... and make her be fully aware that christianity is supposed to be all about family... christmas and stuff.
JWs do not celebrate Christmas. And threats like that just serve to reinforce that she's "in the truth" and that Satan is pulling out all the stops to get her to leave. It is a very insidious approach that they take in order to get someone to join and then make it difficult to leave. And I am aware that recently they started a fresh round of "the end is really really REALLY close this time!"
The key is to find a way to get her to realize that "the end is nigh" has been a JW message since well before they took the name Jehovah's Witnesses. It can be very difficult to get a JW, even a new one, to look at the WT organization's dirty laundry. JWs do not use hellfire to intimidate people, but the fear of missing out on paradise can be just as effective in keeping a person from peeking behind the curtain.
One thing for sure: they push the persecution complex diligently, so any attempts to bully her or force her to leave simply serves to make her more certain that she has found the one true religion.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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