I have been putting a lot of thought into religion lately and I get it. Religion is important in a lot of peoples lives and they get angry when you want to freely discuss god instead of blindly follow. A good friend of mine killed herself a few years back. We were part of the Jehovah’s witness cult and she had voices in her head telling her to hurt herself. She went to the elders of the church (because that’s what you would do) and they told her she needed to pray more. Not one of those motherfuckers though maybe she should go to see a doctor or get medication. Just pray more! Every one of them should be in jail for negligent homicide. Forgive me if I hate religion.
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I’m so sorry you lost your friend.
I think they must have believed it would help her. As I see it, they weren’t people who were in any way qualified to give someone advice on mental health problems (or even recognise them as such). It’s unfortunate that they were the people she went to, but that’s a problem with the construct of that society. I can’t really see it as the fault of those particular people.
I can completely see why you hate religion. If something like that happened in my life, I think I’d feel the same. I’d probably hate those people too. I’m sorry that happened to you, and to her.
Im sorry to hear about your friend. Yeah often people go to religious authority with questions like your friend did… and they get the same basic reply. Just pray more. Which really isnt a practical answer to every problem in life.
Technically, it’s against the rules to say, “Thank God I’m a Quaker,” but I did it anyway.
Unfortunately this is more common than many realize and it’s not just JW either.
I was raised as a JW and they’re unfortunately a still big part of my life, and one of the biggest reasons why I can’t get “better”. The elders knew that my ex stepfather was a sick paedophile and ignored my cries for help when I begged them to help me and my younger sister a few years ago. Instead they just gave him a “prize” for being such a “good Chrstian” and made him an elder too. They said I was lying, never tried to help us and the abuse never stopped until I finally got a way to kick him out of my family’s house. They’re a dangerous cult. I’m really sorry for your loss. Many hugs.
I want to type that I hate religion too because kart of me screams that whenever I think of the past, but for some people it can better their lives. It didn’t help my life at all though. It just made it really worse and now I have a bunch of psychological, emotional problems due to years of living among them and listening to their brainwashing. I’m sorry for any typos btw, I type really fast when I’m angry lol
I am sorry about what happened. The Watchtower Organization is one of the worst for protecting paedophiles. They are being sued majorly for protecting them. You should look up the paedophile cases in Australia with them right now. Lots of girls are getting settlements in the millions. One here in the US just got 25m from them. I would love to see them go bankrupt