Posted by Consider?-WW [WW] on November 25, 1999 at 17:56:52 {yaNwUlwC5cTmM4Bt2duQm1EPSMpKF.}:
In Reply to: The Greater Issue posted by AP on November 25, 1999 at 07:56:54:
Your ideas have some good reasoning but you have neglected some of the cold, hard facts. As long as the Society misrepresents itself as having the authority to decide life and death matters (FDS), the abuse of us will continue.
Also, they need to state in no uncertain terms that JWs will not be DF or forced to DA for deciding matters of conscience that are clearly grey areas, most of scripture really!
As far as blood goes, the JW community is so prejudiced against any blood that even making it a conscience matter will still result in people deciding to die needlessly. A strong statement of fact is needed to start to undo the damage.
WW