Watchtower writes:
“It could be seen that it would not be right for a Christian to work exclusively for a blood bank, where everything was devoted to an end that was in violation of God’s law.”—(The Watchtower, April 1, 1975 p. 215)
“The Bible condemns things such as stealing, idolatry and the misuse of blood, so a Christian could hardly engage in work where he directly promoted such things.”—(The Watchtower, July 15, 1982 p. 26)
That Watchtower doctrine effectively disqualifies for baptism a person whose primary job is to take blood donations and then separate it into parts for use by Witness patients.
It is paradoxical that a person cannot become a baptized Witnesses so long as they remain in their job of taking and fractionating blood for Witnesses to accept, yet the same Witnesses preventing the baptism are perfectly willing to pay the person to perform the job in their behalf.
Once I knew such a person who wanted to be baptized as a Witness. She was told she would have to quit her job. She asked the question:
Why is it unacceptable for me to do this job but it is acceptable for Witnesses to pay me to do this job?
Good question!
Marvin Shilmer
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