Hillcrest: Soliciting Debated After Police Called on Jehova's Witnesses
Should Jehova's Witnesses knock on your door if you have a "no soliciting" sign? A case in the Hillcrest area has people debating it.
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Hillcrest Patch Local Editor Roger Vozar had an interesting story today about Jehova's Witnesses after a Mayfield Heights woman called police when she said the Witnesses ignored her "no soliciting" sign.
Here's an exceprt from the story:
Police spoke to the people who were at the woman's house and told them not to return. The point wasn't so much that they were not allowed to knock on doors with "no soliciting" signs, but that they should honor the sign in this particular case because they were clearly told they were not wanted at the house.
Melvin Walker, a spokesman for the Hillcrest Congregation, said laws governing solicitors do not apply to Jehovah's Witnesses going door-to-door.
"The key is that we're not soliciting anything," he said. "That (a 'no soliciting' sign) does not apply to us. We're not selling anything. We're trying to share some encouragement from the scriptures."
However, Mel Durchslag, an attorney representing the American Civil Liberties Union, said he's not certain that the Jehovah's Witnesses were not soliciting.
Read the full story at Hillcrest Patch.
Danny Haszard
5:25 pm on Thursday, October 6, 2011
The A,B,C 1 2 3 of JW Issues
Jehovah’s Witnesses would be obscure and no one would say anything negative about them except they cause these problems:
1) Break up families under the guise of Jesus said so.
2) Let kids die from no blood transfusion then say it’s from God and then have all kinds of you can use blood parts loopholes.
3) Go door to door and lie about why they are really there say it’s to encourage Bible reading when they want to get literature in your hands ask for donation and then come back bothersome because you took literature just to be nice to them.
Get rid of these 3 things and they will do fine. --Danny Haszard
http://www.dannyhaszard.com
Vinny
7:52 pm on Thursday, October 6, 2011
Was God"s spirit with WT when they THEN SAID Organ Transplants are same as "Cannibalism" in 1967and forbid them?
Or was God's spirit with the Watchtower Society when they THEN SAID Organ Transplants are NOT the same as cannibalism in 1980 and now allow them?
Was God behind all those changes each time?
Did (((GOD))) get all those things wrong each time?
Did God cause folks TO DIE by listening to the WT Society as the voice of God?
AND THIS IS JUST ONE THING!!!
We can do this same song and dance THOUSANDS OF TIMES.
That's how bad defending WT world has become.
Just sharing the truth here.
Which is why I am no longer one despite heavy consequences for simply leaving the religion.
My wife left and two of three children also no longer are JW's. And all of us are shunned by all JW's as well as by the one kid that still is one.
These are just some of the facts that people need to know.
Once sincere look at the entire JW picture along with their history will show a completely different picture than what they tell you about themselves.
The problem is that JW members are told that all information "critical" of the faith is labeled as "apostate" and they are warned to stay away from all of it.
When the truth is that such information is usually not apostate anything, but is in fact honest and truthful though sheds a very negative light on the religion overall.
But that 'critical' information is still worth knowing and acting on.
Vinny
3:01 pm on Friday, October 7, 2011
Most JWs believe God has chosen the Watchtower Society as his "channel", which provides food from God Himself to their religion and only their religion.
But an honest look at the facts and history of the JW religion shows God has not chosen the Watchtower for anything!
Take a LOOK:
http://home.tiscali.nl/t661020/wtcitaten/part2.htm
It's all from their own literature with dates and pages recorded to see for yourself.
Pages and pages of mistakes, embarrassments, false predictions, medical disasters, weird science, doctrinal failures and more for over 100 years now.
Obviously "GOD" would not get things wrong like this.
Obviously God did not provide bad food like that for their entire history.
Solomon Ruffo
4:15 am on Monday, October 17, 2011
Freedom of religion and freedom from religion.
Cults recruit,they have no alternative, they cannot grow without recruiting.
They look for very specific traits in the prime candidates (the mark), and Jehovah's Witnesses are no exception.
The talking point Jehovah's Witnesses are TRAINED to use at the doors are clearly designed to vet for poorly developed critical thinking skills, a soured view of or disaffection from society and/or religion, and a demonstrated lack of knowledge about what the Bible teaches.
Anyone who shows easy capacity with any of these will be quickly deemed "argumentative" and the discussion will be ended.
The goal of door-to-door ministry is to catch people when they are more relaxed, more genial, in an environment socially predisposed to the offer of hospitality and forbearance. This is all by design. No one is thinking through how best to Scripturally explain their religious beliefs while relaxing at home, not even Jehovah's Witnesses.
The religion is a cult.
Freedom of religion and freedom from religion.