Why is it that people say they object to Jehovah's Witnesses because they think we "let people die" due to
them refusing blood transfusions, and yet their OWN religions "let people die" by sending their young men off to wars to die en MASSE for some "cause" that isn't Christ's kingdom? Their preists "bless" these young soldiers and tell them that what they are doing is a GOOD thing while they go off and blow other people to bits and get blown to bits BY them, and yet WE are somehow HORRIBLE people because we believe that it is wrong to take blood and because PERHAPS due to this some one of us MIGHT die?
I just don't get this. I've never known any witness in my whole 50 plus years of being a witness who has ACTUALLY died due to refusal of blood. Yet I know of many in other religions who die and kill because their clergy don't teach them that war is wrong.
No Jehovah's Witness would EVER kill anyone in a war, or die by fighting in one. This would be abhorrent to us. And yet though others feel that wars are "worth dying for" they don't see that we feel the same about obeying God?
Hannah J Paul2008-07-17T12:09:21Z
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There is no reason to this knee-jerk response that people have to Jehovah's Witnesses' refusal to take blood transfusions. The mantra is firmly embedded: "people die because they don't take blood transfusions." If that were really true, I would have died twice. I am still here. People don't die because they don't take blood transfusions. People die because they lost too much blood. There is a difference.
And you are right. Those who go off to war to fight for a cause in which they believe are hailed as heroes. But those who fight for a principle in which they believe (the principle outlined in the Bible respecting the sanctity of blood) are ridiculed and denounced. Those who die in that carnal warfare are hailed as heroes. Those who die standing up for the aforementioned principle are denounced as idiots, at the very least of it, and suicidal at the very worst. People don't care if you are trying to obey God, unless you are doing it THEIR way.
Huh? Do you send your babies off to war? This makes no sense at all to compare our men and women fighting in wars with your babies who have no choice but to die because you refuse to save them with blood transfusions. By the way, we do save our injured men and women with blood transfusions also, and we do have the courage of defending justice and freedom which you and other JWs are enjoying very much of in our free countries. We are actually sacrificing for your freedom of religion. Only a small percentage of them die too, so most of them do come back home safely.
Yes....and worse.....religions are busy making money off bloodless medicine and surgery. There are hundreds of hospitals for bloodless medicine and surgery in the USA, many more "wings" of hospitals aimed at it.....and MOST are church built by mainline churches. And hospitals are not charitable organizations. They have a certain required by law amount of charity work they must do each year whether religious or not, the rest is all profit.
I've had 3 big surgeries without blood....one carotid artery replacement.
VERY GOOD POINT. I will say the two ways of dying you mention *truly, really, honestly* falls under the meaning of *Sacrifice* and the *Ultimate* one at that. Death is the ultimate sacrifice. But now that is not what it is written in the Bible right. *As it is written*, Jesus through his blood was and is the perfect sacrifice for all mankind. Jesus is the *last* sacrifice for all mankind. You don't need to refuse blood transfusions and sacrifice your life for eternal life because as it is written "Jesus already did that for you" right. And as for wars, that also is written in the Bible. There will be wars after wars after wars until the final war of Armageddon comes and Jesus again will end all wars. That second sacrifice you mentioned is the *inevitable* because there is *no* stopping wars. In wars people will die and that can't be stopped until Jesus comes and end all wars. The bottom line is God Almighty (the powers over all powers) will judge the living and the dead.
Yes, and the very same people clamoring over our stance on blood will not say a word to a cigarette smoker at their 'church' who has children in the home.
The fact is, the children of smokers are in far more danger from the effects of second hand smoke than ours are regarding our stand on blood. Today with all the medical breakthroughs concerning bloodless surgery and alternatives, we are quite protected. Nothing is protecting the children of smokers.