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For 2012 Watchtower is using “Your word is truth” as its year-text. This requires each congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide to prominently display the phrase in its main auditorium.
Despite this banner on truth, we find blatant falsehood advanced by the Watchtower organization onto children with recommendation that those children in turn share the falsehood again.
Watchtower's "truth"
In its July 2009 issue of Awake! the Watchtower organization encourages children to plan their response to certain questions. Among these we find the following question and answer[1]:
For 2012 Watchtower is using “Your word is truth” as its year-text. This requires each congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide to prominently display the phrase in its main auditorium.
Despite this banner on truth, we find blatant falsehood advanced by the Watchtower organization onto children with recommendation that those children in turn share the falsehood again.
Watchtower's "truth"
In its July 2009 issue of Awake! the Watchtower organization encourages children to plan their response to certain questions. Among these we find the following question and answer[1]:
It is categorically false that Jehovah’s Witnesses accept only “safe transfusions”. Jehovah’s Witnesses accept many blood products from the donor supply. Some of these are pooled products, such as cryoprecipitate. Another product accepted by Jehovah’s Witnesses is cryosupernatant. Cryosupernatant is more than 50% of the volume of whole blood. It is transfused based on the same safety protocols as fresh frozen plasma.[2] Transfusion of products such as cryoprecipitate and cryosupernatant are no safer or dangerous than transfusion of blood products forbidden under the Watchtower organization’s blood doctrine.
This particular falsehood from Watchtower is made worse by it being panned onto children to accept as true and to then have those children share the misinformation with others as though true. Shame on Watchtower!
The truth
If God’s word is truth then anything found to be a falsehood is not the word of God. When the Watchtower organization advances a notion that what Jehovah’s Witnesses can and do accept from the donor blood supply is safe from bloodborne pathogens it is a patent falsehood. Even one of the Watchtower organization’s own medical doctors pointed this out.[3]
Any questions?
Marvin Shilmer
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References:
1. Awake!, published by Watchtower, July 2009, p. 25.
2. For more on these blood products see the article Plasma, Cryoprecipitate and Cryosupernatant
3. Harvey Jon Schiller, MD, Optimal Care for Patients Who Are Jehovah’s Witnesses, Anesthesia and Analgesia, Vol. 104, No. 4, April 2007 p. 755.
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