![]() Like a faith-based dating manual, it includes tips on how to "get to know" the other person.ġ) "Discuss something from the Bible together"Ģ) "Observe how the other person participates in meetings and sermons"ģ) "Help clean the Kingdom Hall (a place of worship used by Jehova's witnesses) and with construction projects" The pamphlet also includes a chapter on how a young Jehovah's Witness can determine if a potential partner is right for him or her. The pamphlet, Melanie says, contains a lot of information on topics she is familiar with: what it's like to feel like an outsider at school, or to have false desires "for sex or self-gratification." Like many young Jehovah's Witnesses, Melanie has read a glossy pamphlet entitled "Questions Young People Ask: Answers That Work." It makes it clear that homosexuality is forbidden and masturbation demonized. Because he chose freedom and his current girlfriend, he is "essentially parentless," he says. At age 18, he moved out and hasn't been back since. And when he brought his first girlfriend home, his father promptly sent her packing. He was bullied at school for being a Witness. Markus, a student who left the Jehovah's Witnesses, says: "You try finding someone willing to put up with all of this crap!" Since his birth, he had been dragged to meetings. It's a community that presumes to have a say in who its young people marry. Yet many of them are victims of this community, which promises paradise - but for many, becomes a hell on earth. The number of children and youths among them is not recorded. There are some 165,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany. These always follow the same format: Asked to tell about his missionary work, the interviewee enthuses about the experience - it's wonderful. Every so often, there is an interview with a Jehovah's Witness. Throughout the meeting, Bible passages are discussed at length and hymns are sung. They don't mention that the Protestant church has described the translation of the Bible used by Jehovah's Witnesses as inaccurate and uncritical. At least, they claim that's what the Bible says. There are passages explaining why nicotine is forbidden but a glass of wine at the end of the day permitted, why blood transfusions are to be avoided and why non-believers must be converted. They hold their Bible in front of them like a silver tray: the word of Jehovah. SPIEGEL Media Menü SPIEGEL Media aufklappen.Alle Magazine Menü Alle Magazine aufklappen.SPIEGEL-Heft Menü SPIEGEL-Heft aufklappen.Gutscheine Anzeige Menü Gutscheine aufklappen.Marktplatz Anzeige Menü Marktplatz aufklappen.Wissenschaft Menü Wissenschaft aufklappen.Formel 1 – Liveticker, Kalender, WM-Stand. ![]()
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