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Because your religion is wrong.
Spread the Gospel
Spake the people
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NO! So good for Japan; let's hope the US follows.
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Maybe it's only because I've been away from the sect for so long, but I hadn't considered the...
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Thanks for posting and creating an awareness of the Jehovah's Witnesses *blood...
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Jehovah's Witnesses are unpopular for many reasons, none of which matched the early church...
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Good points.
Naturally, theists may try to respond to those points. But if I may...
Hymn book
If I may toot my own shofar, a few of the posts I like best:
Neither Frodo, Harry Potter, nor Winnie the Pooh created or took away anything.
Indeed. And as far as we know, neither did Vishnu, Darth Vader, Yahweh, gremlins, Allah, Quetzlcoatl, or Anne of Green Gables. Which is fine; we certainly don't expect fictional characters to do things in the real world.
One can make as many blind insertions as they please, although they do not necessarily pertain to what is important.
True! One can even fill whole books of scripture with blind insertions (assertions?), yet not get to what's important.
No, hypothetically no one can restore an amputated limb.
In reality, true. (According to religion, there are gods, beings, spells, etc. that can restore limbs – though somehow never in verifiable fashion.)
However, love and grace can get you through the trials of losing a part of your body.
Exactly! Love and grace will help immensely. While supernatural beings are not yet shown to help at all.
Harry Potter may have been a New York Times bestseller, but we know very well the author who wrote those books - books that were made to be fictitious. The Bible was written with the intent of sharing something real to everyone.
Yes! Both books (or both collections of books, I should say) were written by real, live people, with the intent of sharing something - stories, beliefs, ideas. Not with the same emphasis on those components or with the same content, obviously, but the core is the same: People creating works of fiction. And in these two cases, with results that have touched many, many readers.
There have been more copies found of the letters from the Bible than there have been of the findings of Plato or Socrates.
Sorry, I honestly don't catch the gist of that closing sentence. But I appreciate the input; thanks!