Jehovah's Witnesses, You are willing to forsake all of your family members for the "Truth" you have learned?

Sadly, there are many sincere people trapped in that cult. Pray for them.

Gee, that same thing happen to Buddha, Gandhi, and many others with some in their family

Many followers in biblical times as well as now. In many religions. Some left their family and churches to escape to new lands to worship what they felt was truth.

Some of Jesus's close followers in the bible encouraged avoidance and shun some and for good reason, your mistaken there that Jesus disapproved in that. There are some even today who will shun their families (like the Quakers and Amish in hopes they would come back to their senses and some do.)

Worst, there are even some who even Kill (like some Muslims have done even in this time and age-such horror) their close own family for leaving what they believe and their family member doesn't.

Some were crucified, burned, beat-up, picked on, > "made fun of "<, persecuted in every way possible , by many others for their belief , often and by "those who claim to be a better person of good faith--thinking they are doing it for good reasons." History has many of those. Some pick on a sect trying to encourage others even family to hate them or make them appear foolish for their belief that is different than their own. Some just don't accept others beliefs or others freedoms so they put them down anyway they can. Even when most do or did nothing terrible to them at all to deserve such treatment from other than to believe different.

Such a pity

Maybe the hardest thing to do is to examine Your own heart correctly because it seems the majority went right along with the endless persecution and picking on of people of a different belief--and calling themselves and convincing themselves they were good for doing it

How does it go there is your truth, my truth, their truth and the truth. Who's right. People need to use logic and common sense which is now missing. Half the people never read the bible or just the parts they want to believe, people rarely study their own religion to the point that they truly understand what is going on yet want to tell everyone else what is going on.

To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.

-- Thomas Paine, The Crisis

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

-- Robert Green Ingersoll, "The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child"

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

-- Robert Green Ingersoll, "Individuality" (1873)

No man can twist Christ words to mean anything but what it means; if we do not put Jehovah God and Christ Jesus first in our lives, including before our family or country, we are unworthy of worshiping and becoming God's people.

The scriptures are clear that we are to keep the congregation clean from all sorts of greed, for ''a little leaven will spoil the whole lump.''-Galatians 5:9

Let us not forget 1 Corinthians 5:11-13 and 6:9,10 and 15:33

Really, it was the other way around for me. My parents disowned me for becoming one of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Why? Because I won't go to war for the U.S.

My mother made it very clear that she hates Jehovah's Witnesses.

However, I never disowned them.

With this in mind, I did get mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers in the congregation.

In fact, my mother hated me so much, she wouldn't even give me the time of day. I'd see here in the small town I lived in and she wouldn't even say hello to me.

A family of Jehovah's Witnesses let me live with them. The Witness family treated me great. They're good people, and the witness mother always tried to talk to my mother, but my mother wouldn't speak to her, or me.

Edit: I will say in my families defense, they eventually let me see them and they eventually started to talk with again.

Those people are one of the rudest religions that I have ever seen.