OK, many of you know I’m a telemarketer. Please don’t let my rant degenerate into an anti-telemarketing thread…puhleeeeze.
Ringing the kind folks in Melbourne today to solicit donations for the charity I work for, I encountered a Jehovahs Witness on the other end of the line. After giving him my spiel, which involved raising funds for a holiday camp for kids with a particular disability, he proceeded to inform me that I Had It All Wrong. All we have to do is wait for Jehovah to come on down, and all the ills of the world will be cured. All you have to do is take their word to heart, and you will see your disabilities fly away when Jehovah returns.
Okaaaaay, whatever, I’ve heard some very creative reasons for not wanting to donate in the past, but this one sort-of takes the cake. I respect anybody’s right to believe in whatever they choose, but sitting back and waiting for Jehovah to fix everything up seems like a mighty-big cop-out to me. There are problems in this world that need fixing RIGHT NOW, and the complacency that this bloke displayed made me very concerned. I know that J.W.'s are not ‘mainstream’, but it is still sad that some people can sit back and be comfortable in their social apathy…because God is gonna fix everything up.
That’s my main problem with JW’s. Jehovah is going to make everything perfect someday, but in the meantime the same old shit goes on and on and they do nothing to improve it.
This idea of ignoring real, existing needs because eventually somewhere down the line one thinks some god will solve them is one of the reasons religion can lead to great immorality.
They were most likely lying… my friends went through this whole thing about a man(person on phone) being beaten by his wife because he didn’t take the garbage out…
I was married for a short time to a man whose mother deliberately (and with much premeditation and malice) raised him as a Jehovah’s Witness (but don’t worry, he is in recovery now).
He told me that they don’t donate to any charities.
Oh, gee merge, I’m just rolling around the floor laughing my arse off ya know. :rolleyes:
Whether this guy was bullshitting me or not about his beliefs is not really relevent. From my (admittedly limited) experience with people of this faith, I have heard this attitude espoused on a number of occasions, so I have no reason do doubt his sincerity.
Well, if Jehovah’s coming soon and it’s too late for us to try and change anything ourselves, it would go a long way towards explaining why the Jehovah’s Witnesses leave everybody to their own devices and don’t try to convert anybody.
