Dubtown S01E15 – The JW Public Reproof – Smoking

Jehovahs Witnesses are a legalistic law based religion. The punishment of disfellowshipping extends to include things you choose to put in your body. Smoking is clearly not healthy and damages your body, but then so is sugar! i have a bad sugar addiction that is not good for my body. Can you imagine if watchower made a policy of shunning anyone who had a sugar habit? for decades watchtowers policy was, tobacco is not good for you and is not for christians! but with no legalistic sanctions. then in 1973 they changd this position and stated that since the end is so close [stay alive to 75] is was time to clear out the filth before paradise. people were given 6 months to quit! a 1976 watchtower stated; w76 2/15 p. 123 par. 16 As of May 1974, in the United States alone, more than 2,000 had been disfellowshiped for not quitting this unclean practice. since then, you are not permitted to be baptised if you smoke or wear a patch and for those already baptised if you start the habit you are to be shunned by the whole jw community. im glad they don't have a sugar policy... yet ------------------------------------------- This episode has a cameo visit to the kh by activist WITNESS NOMORE :)    / channel     / kevin.mcfree.33     / kevinlyclass   [email protected] Dubtown Theme: A WAY FOR ME by Nicolai Heidlas Music   / nicolai-heidlas   Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library    • Video