My Book of Bible Stories
For people who grew up with this book or taught it to your children, any reflections on it after the fact?I found an online version of it here: http://www.watchtower.org/e/my/article_00.htmI had this...
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Well, yesterday I went to visit the jdub family (everyone was there) and my aunt decided she wanted to put on a little bible play with me and my two young siblings. Of course I went along with it...
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PieRSquare wrote:I had to really fight not to get an attitude around the "and Jehovah decided to kill everyone" part.haha! This story made me laugh. Knowing myself, I definitely would have put a...
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I also remember the book. What I most remember were those yellow tapes! Without fail, they would put me to sleep every night lol I remember so vividly the mans voice that read the stories... I...
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I think I still have nightmares about a baby being held up and sliced in two...lol Last week I was telling my son the story of Jonah and the whale (it was my fav story ever?????), eyes rolling the...
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So I'm re-reading the book, and it is sooo much more wtf than I realized even when making this post. This story is gross:http://www.watchtower.org/e/my/article_62.htmIt's also another place where they...
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awww "He forces his love on her"...LOVE??? Well I guess we can feel a little better about being shunned and that god didn't curse our household with horrific death....geez so loving
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so basically they are saying because David did bad things...this is the reason his son dies and his other son is a rapist? this is a way to scare people into the religion (well children) because if...
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OK so I haven't read that book in at least 15 years that I know of so reading that there is just insane. We never saw how F*D up it was? That's flippin normal to read to your small children?? WTH?
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Yeah, it's crazy how it suggests that David's son just happened to die. Jehovah KILLS the baby because David raped and killed some people. Very fair.
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I'm with you pcangel- I haven't even glanced at that book in so long and I just read a few stories on the website. Holy hell I'm at a loss for words. Why did our parents think those stories were ok?
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We were hardly allowed to watch anything on TV...not even Disney...but that book is ok. Just the fact that it is written for children is very disturbing.
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Hey, I wonder why they didn't include the story in 2 Kings 2:23-25! Here's a genius commentary on it called What's So Bad About Killing Children?: http://www.freethought.mbdojo.com/killchildren.html
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cheyenne wrote:Hey, I wonder why they didn't include the story in 2 Kings 2:23-25! Here's a genius commentary on it called What's So Bad About Killing Children?:...
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cheyenne wrote:Hey, I wonder why they didn't include the story in 2 Kings 2:23-25! Here's a genius commentary on it called What's So Bad About Killing Children?:...
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interesting backstory, nevermind. it reminds me that the issues often come up first, and then religion appears as a way to explain it. auth, I can't believe JWs actually told that story. Or, I can...
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The problem with the bible regardless of who is quoting it or conjuring up new religions from it ... is that it is merely a series of stories written up by so many different men, all saying it's the...
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This has brought back some interesting memories for me in regards to how I REALLY felt about the book when I was still a JW. Like so many things associated with being Jdub, the cognitive dissonance...
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My parents never pushed bible stuff on us at bedtime ... which was fine by me as by the time I'd started school, I was well and truly traumatised with all the end of world, torture, rape, persecution...
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omg, no wonder i've always been obcessed with the truth. i learn to read with the book in french and was my best friend with all the yellow cassettes wfich came in that fake looking book, plastic...
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ohh and one of the old light i guessed mentioned by all jw's.on the prelude of the book, it says clearly that the period of the first part covers 1656 years, no mention of the first day being not...
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