Goofball cult. Just a slight step up from the Scientologists.
I think a sister who is 43 years old is old enough to make her own decisions and live with the consequences.
Any worrying you might do would likely lead to interference with her, and probably won't be appreciated.
(2) It is not Christian. JW teaching specifically denies that Jesus is God. If you are Catholic, you should know that your sister is abandoning Christianity for a non-Christian religion.
(3) The JWs interfere in life choices like choice of a career, etc., sometimes in very aggressive ways.
(4) You cannot leave the JWs without nasty repercussions. If she decides to leave in the future, JWs will tell lies about her in order to help her husband retain custody of her children. It will get very nasty. People who were her best friends when she was a JW will turn on her with extreme viciousness the second she leaves. If she steps out of line but does not leave, she may be subjected to the silent treatment from her own spouse, children and friends.
At least she isn't coverting to Islam.
You will save money on Christmas and birthday presents, at least, as they don't celebrate those. Most of the Jehovah's Wittnesses I know pretty regular folks. They have about the same amount of goofiness as any other religion, no more, no less.
although she likely will never shoot anyone, you can forget about Christmas get togethers because that cult doesn't believe in gifts, etc.
She'll save a fortune on Christmas gifts.
If you weren't worried before, there's no reason you should be more worried now.
Should you be worried? In a word...
YES!
As above, it's a cult. Period.
Neal
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Should you be worried? I'd say yes. Not for her safety but for the sake of her soul. I agree with everything that wideawake said in post #7. If I were you I'd pray for your sister. I think it's a great tragedy everytime someone turns their back on Christ and embraces a cult or another religion outside of Christianity.
He admitted that I knew the bible better than he but that he knew the Watchtower would have the answers to the scripture I was showing him. He was totally closed minded that the Watchtower could be wrong.
Be afraid... be very afraid.
Sorry, that religion's been done. ;)
To risk losing her, I wouldn't worry about it. You could push to hard and not see or speak to her again.
If she's a conservative, it is a good argument not to join.
From my experience..., only people who want to sleep late on Saturday mornings have to worry...
My sister was married to a JW. That was years ago and she's since divorced.
The "religion" messed her up very badly. She still has doubts. At that time they didn't "believe" in Jesus. They've since revised their beliefs. I think they believe in Jesus, but not his power.
They believe they are the most hated people on earth that the Bible talks about in the last days. They also think their leaders are part of the 144,000 Revelations talks about that will go around during the tribulation period and witness to those who didn't go in the rapture.
They also believe they are the ones who will clean up the earth after Armageddon.
These are things that my sister told me. She's 64 now and just a mess religiously. Some of these ideas are pounded into her head.