Having been raised by a hard core JW family, we were always required to sit still for up to two hours as toddlers.
As an adult who has formally left (not something too many do, due to the harsh shunning edicts) I WILL say the only good thing about it is that we were taught to behave at an early age in public. Something that is SORELY lacking today with modern, child worshipping, coddling “parenting.”
Trying hard to find what’s wrong with this and failing. Parents today are so busy with their life their children become amoral savages as adults.
The example given is meant to shake the child up by implication. The threat is subtle. Leave these people alone. Some folks would become ‘outraged’ at any attempt to control or strongly influence a child’s behavior. Most kids need to be taught what it means to be civilized. This is not abusive, so let’s stay out of their business.
I remember when I was about 13 years old, there was this VERY religious black woman that worked at my school. One day, we kids had a conversation with her and she mentioned that her church service started from 6 in the morning and went until 12 at night. (hard to believe, I know).
I remember saying “That’s like 18 hours! Don’t your kids get bored???”
She yelled back “I don’t care if they get bored! They gonna sit there an lissen to the Word of God!”
What’s wrong with threatening them with eternal torture?
They threat but won’t do it, unlike the screaming bearded subhuman savages.
You should see what happens in Protestant churches when someone lets their cellphone go off during service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2_c81Nnsc0
this should be rich . . . . .
A cult is occult - JWs, Mormons, People’s Church, Catholics. Makes no difference. Those who lie about Christ or worship anyone/anything but Christ are in a cult.
Maybe the other churches should have a cartoon threating the parents with death if they don`t make their children behave.
JWs used to be called Russellites until one of their End of the World predictions didn’t turn out as expected so they rebranded themselves and hoped nobody noticed.