Hello and Welcome to The True Apostate – The Website that exposes the Truth behind “the Truth”, the affectionate term used by it’s members for The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. Most know this organisation by its more popular name – Jehovah’s Witnesses.
A True Apostate
As someone who was involved with the organisation as a child and whose family are still members, through this website, I will expose, challenge and call out this organisation and it’s Textbook, ‘The Bible’ for what it really is and how they use this book to exploit people using fear.
What is an Apostate?
According to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society as well as the Bible itself, there are many sins. But One sin in particular is the most serious of all and they say it’s unforgiveable. What do you think that Sin might be? Murder? Rape? Child abuse? No. The One Sin that they say is the most serious of them all is what they call ‘Apostasy’.
So, what is ‘Apostasy’ then? Well, according to the Jehovah’s Witnesses, what they define the act of apostasy as, is someone who has been a member of the organisation or who has been taught the doctrines of it but later proceeds to speak ill of it to others. Offenders are treated by the organisation as a disease and the members are Instructed to take nothing to do with them, or even talk to them. The fact that the person may be a family member matters not to them.
So, basically anyone who speaks out against this organisation is, according to them, the worst type of sinner of them all, according to them. In effect, what they’re saying is that speaking against the Watchtower Society is far worse than Rape, murder, theft, child abuse and any other wrong that you can think of. But for a society that builds and retains its members through the use of fear, this is hardly surprising.
Stop the Lot
I don’t know about you. But to me, this in itself is inherently wrong. If the words of the Jehovah’s witnesses was so True as they claim, then surely anyone speaking against them could easily be checked by logical and conversation. Not by fearmongery and bullying. Any system that runs that way is wrong from the offset.