Leaving a High Control Religion

Isn’t it funny how our minds twist and turn after leaving a high control religion such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses?

When I first started to fade out of the Jehovah’s Witnesses,  I inadvertently placed the religion under a microscope. I started looking at this group of people far more closely and differently to how other Jehovah’s Witnesses saw them. Even though I had seen the 607 B.C.E. lie for what it was, my fellow ‘brothers and sisters’ still looked like good people, although it was plain to see that they were misguided.

As time went on though, this misguidedness remained, whilst the shine started to diminish. You could say that as I faded away from the religion, their shine also started to wear thin. After all, would you ever label a person as being ‘good’ if they started to shun their son or daughter? Do good people stand by praying to an imaginary god while allowing their child to bleed to death because someone in New York interpreted an ancient book written by nomadic sheep-herders? Good people don’t walk away from lifetime friendships, marriages, or relationships because the other party may disagree with the ‘good persons’ faith.

After a few month into my fade, Ben told me to research the Mormons. I couldn’t believe the similarities they had with Jehovah’s Witnesses. There are 14 million (that’s double the amount of Jehovah’s Witnesses) deluded Mormons, who are convinced of their possession of ‘truth’. They, too, suffer the same delusions about god, sin, hell and heaven.

I then looked at Christianity in general and saw the same thing. I have recently watched ‘Christian’ US congress candidates speak with pride about ‘converting homosexuals’ or ‘praying to god for rain to end a drought’ or still clinging to the idea that stem cell research is ‘immoral’ – once again, all this coming from the insufferable toilet paper drivel of an ancient book. Religions think they are great as they have ‘interpreted’ this ancient book. Why oh why couldn’t they have ‘interpreted’ The Lord of the Rings, or even the PC Pro magazine? At least religion would have been interesting. Can you imagine Sauronites or even a suicide Apple bomber?

My research has taken me onto the other major religions in power on this planet. Lo and behold, I still see the same idiotic nonsense, the same superstitions, and above all, the same reliance on the guidance of people’s writings from several millennia ago.

Take away several layers of all religions and cults and you’ll soon find that they all look alike. Am I wrong? Religions consist of people who are afraid to admit reality, who hide behind ‘hope’ that is false, and base all of this on ancient ideas and non-morals of people who didn’t even grasp modern morality when these writings were inked. For goodness sake, these nomads wrote that the earth was created in 6 days! Oh yes, did I mention that in this same book, it states that god wrote it all?

Since my fading started in 2008, I can honestly say that I am a changed man. I think back to how I used to be – a pawn in a cult that adhered to the teachings of a publishing company in North America – and I feel liberated. I spare a thought for all those that are still locked inside. Those poor souls that are trapped in cults like the Jehovah’s Witnesses. I also find it hard to believe that there are those that choose to hold fast to their religious teaching, even though there isn’t a shred of evidence to support their stance. And I find myself going round in circles of confusion as to why so many academic laureates are so dependent on this foundation of air (also known as religion).

I understand that the superstitious will be among mankind for a long time due to the way we have evolved as a species. The good news is that superstitious groups will fall in number at some point in the future – after all, logic cannot be denied forever. So much progress has been made in the past 100 years or so. Logic has a way of winning and hopefully the next 100 years will see further movement away from imaginary friends and bend our mind environment toward reality. Remember people, the only rewards we actually have exist in this life only.

I feel blessed as I know that there is no god, no sin, no hell, no heaven. I could only ever say that paradise had found earth if all mankind knew this. If you have managed to read this far into the article, but still believe in one of the unhuman elements of god, sin, hell or heaven, pat yourself on the back. Send me a message when you believe in none of them and we can maybe do a write up on your experience.