Watchtower on Changing Religions

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To potential converts the Watchtower organization introduces a notion that it is not wrong to change religions.[1]

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But once the convert is baptized things change. Now, it suddenly becomes wrong to change religions. Changing religions becomes a sin punishable by excommunication.[2]

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Under Watchtower doctrine, after baptism it is considered so wrong to change religions that family members living outside the immediate household are absolutely prohibited from communicating with such a person on any subject at all, with the sole exception of “necessary family business”. Family members are compelled under threat of being excommunicated themselves to shun the person who changed their religion.[3]

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So, though Watchtower suggests that changing religions is not wrong, when it gets down to it Watchtower treats changing religions as wrong.



Marvin Shilmer

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References



1. Awake, published by Watchtower, April 8, 1960, p. 31.



2. Shepherd the Flock of God, published by Watchtower (for elders’ only), 2011, p. 111.



3. Letter written on behalf of Watchtower by Leslie Long, attorney at law, December 20, 1988, p. 8.



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