Who you callin' MINOR???
Who you callin' MINOR???
I respect the rights of Jehovah's Witnesses to worship as they choose as well. When I first became in-house at a children's hospital, I surprised their liaison by inviting him to lunch. My two immediate predecessors wouldn't even answer his telephone calls.
I listened to him, brought my Bible to go over the passages he wanted to discuss. I read his materials, including the medical journal articles on blood-free procedures (which were fascinating - especially the ones on cardie-thoracic surgery without blood transfusions) . But I explained our legal obligations as a hospital. I always met with the parents and relatives, as well as the liaison, when we had to go to court.
It's been a few years, but I previously could go toe-to-toe with you on JW blood issues and their Biblical sources and interpretations.
The Jehovah's Witnesses have an interesting growth pattern; they baptize twice as many people each year as become new 'publishers.'
I'll still stick by my reason for reading LDS history - from secular and religious sources, from the LDS Official History of the Church to academic sources, from faithful (Neal A. Maxwell, FARMS, BYU, FAIR, and Desert Publishing related) to non-faithful (Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Sunstone, Signature Books, University of Indiana Press):
Mormonism is the only American contribution to the world's major religions.