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If your parents had practiced and had a different a different religion, do you think you would belong to that religion too?
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[Replying to post 10 by JehovahsWitness]

its phrased like an accident, when really its more of a deliberate act, is that a fair observation.

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Taff Lafferty wrote: [Replying to post 10 by JehovahsWitness]

its phrased like an accident, when really its more of a deliberate act, is that a fair observation.
I'm sorry, to what are you refering to? Can you clarify? Our preaching? My finding the JW religion?...
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[Replying to post 12 by JehovahsWitness]

Sorry if i am not clear, my fault, when i first read your answer to my question i read it like it was an accident your finding JW but i reread the thread and its clear what you meant.

My knowledge is limited of JW but from my understanding most people find their way to being a Jehovahs Witness through being converted via another.

Your belief within Christianity is still Christianity, so my original question means in relation to you, if your parents were Muslim you believe that you would still be a JW?

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Taff Lafferty wrote:
Sorry if i am not clear, my fault, when i first read your answer to my question i read it like it was an accident your finding JW but i reread the thread and its clear what you meant.

My knowledge is limited of JW but from my understanding most people find their way to being a Jehovahs Witness through being converted via another.

Your belief within Christianity is still Christianity, so my original question means in relation to you, if your parents were Muslim you believe that you would still be a JW?
No problem. Yes it is true that most Jehovah's Witnesses are not raised in the faith but "convert" to our religion (from other religions). Which lend credence to the claim that had I (or any of us) been raised in another religion (I do believe Islam qualifies as "another religion") there is a high liklihood that would would still have found our way to this particlar religion.

Now obviously one has to factor in the probability of exposure. It is highly unlikey that if I was raised in a small village up in the mountains of Afganistan that exposure would have happened. so the liklihood is greatly reduced, not because the religion would not have appealed (or even because the socio-religious problems changing would have posed) but because the would be little chance of being exposed to other religions being raised in such circumstances, especially one as small as my own.

If my parents were muslim and I was raised in the west and had contact with Jehovah's Witnesses, I believe strongly I would be one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I can't say as much for any other nominal christian religion.

I guess the question is not as simple as it seemed at first.

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I completely understand locality and culture, but that does not cover my understanding of the contact, my understanding of JW is its almost over welming in its complete belief in its message. That complete belief is held and given in the group message given to the interested party.
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Taff Lafferty wrote: That complete belief is held and given in the group message given to the interested party.

I'm sorry, you've lost me again... (not enough coffee.. duh (me))...

I understand that you are saying that JWs believe strongly in the bible message (as they see it). That I would agree with. But then you state the above. I can't comment on this because I don't understand it.


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Im saying that an interested party can be overwhelmed by a group strongly held belief.
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Yes, I suppose that could be true, especially if one is confronted with more than one member of that group at the same time.
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When a human commits to something and voices strong opinion on it, well its hard to retract and pull out and admit you may have got it wrong.

Its easy to voice doubts in the group and again be swayed by a group belief, moving deeper into religious belief.

This is one of the reasons i asked about you about reading the bible, its always easy to find fruit in your chosen literature to evidence under pinning beliefs in group, bring evidence of a criticism of that belief from the same literature and it wont be well received, and also more supporting paragraphs will be found to counter your evidence dismissing it out of hand.

Group reading is control.

No offence intended but if you feel i have, tell me how and why please.
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Taff Lafferty wrote: No offence intended but if you feel i have, tell me how and why please.
No offence taken at all. You are right, we must remain humble if we want to progress spiritual.

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