“The Doubt” – autobiography spanning three decades with Jehovah’s Witnesses
Innsbruck (OTS/www.derzweifel.at) – Not only since the shootings in Hamburg or India in 2023 has the religious community of Jehovah’s Witnesses once again become the focus of media reporting.
But who are Jehovah’s Witnesses really? What sets this community apart? What are their special features, but also the dangers of their uncompromising obedience to the American leadership?
With the autobiographical report “The doubt“, one of the most authentic reports from a former Jehovah’s Witness is published in German-speaking countries in recent years.
The author was a member of the religious community for 31 years.
In his moving report, he sums up a life that was determined by a polarizing and often self-contradictory organization.
He humorously and self-deprecatingly describes his loving but strictly religious upbringing of children, the challenges of growing up in which social exclusion was part of his daily routine, and the later everyday life of a Jehovah’s Witness, for whom the organization’s teachings and guidelines had far-reaching influence in the most diverse spheres of the world personal everyday life.
Until his exit, which was associated with drastic consequences of family and social ostracism through excommunication, the reader gets a realistic insight into the otherwise closed circle of a globally active religious movement.
Free from any accusations, but in a factual autobiography based on his own experiences, the author gives a neutral and objective insight into an organization that not only teaches its own claim to Christian charity, but also ostensibly lives it out – often with consequences for itself Dignity and freedom.
Only when he was confronted with the awareness that his own children could also be at risk of experiencing the same experiences of later ostracism did he decide to publish his personal report.
“The doubt” is not just the factual report of one individual.
There are also the voices of thousands of those affected by the practice of excommunication among Jehovah’s Witnesses, which has been practiced for seventy years and is often unknown to the general public in this dimension – just as unknown as the essential significance of this issue in the cause of the recognition process as a religious community in Germany.
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