Jehovah's Witness lifts ban on blood transfusions

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Earlier this week, the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses announced that the decision to accept red cells, white cells, plasma or platelets from another person’s blood is a matter of personal conscience. "Likewise, each Witness must decide whether or not to donate blood for the clearly expressed purpose of providing components or fractions for use by another person," read a statement from the organisation.

"Since the Bible does not comment on such decisions, they are a matter of individual conscience. That same reasoning has now been extended to the four main components of blood," it said.

 

[rustypup]

So no more magical healing in prayer rooms?

 

[thestaggy]

"Likewise, each Witness must decide whether or not to donate blood for the clearly expressed purpose of providing components or fractions for use by another person,"

What?

 

[vigras rojara]

That's the final straw, I'm throwing in my Witness card.

No more door knocking for me.

 

[rustypup]

What?

Not all blood is provided as whole blood - eg, plasmapheresis/apheresis

It may be further refined or even modified for specific use cases - clotting, etc

 

[Carl_Johnson]

Amen?

 

[blaaislaai]

So, what about the folks that died already because their indoctrination prevented them from getting blood transfusions in the past?

Unlucky them, right?

 

[rustypup]

Unlucky them, right?

Well.. the impact isn't all that big because heaven has a severely limited number of seats, according to JW beliefs....

 

[vigras rojara]

Well.. the impact isn't all that big because heaven has a severely limited number of seats, according to JW beliefs....

Ah yes, 144000 IIRC.

Perhaps they've hit around 140000 occupied places, and have to slow down the death rate for a bit.

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

It's taken them an awful long time to catch on to modern medical science. We can therefore only hope that they realise their headquarters in Roodepoort, GP doesn't float in the coming Great Flood, before 2060

 

[vigras rojara]

It's taken them an awful long time to catch on to modern medical science. We can therefore only hope that they realise their headquarters in Roodepoort, GP doesn't float in the coming Great Flood, before 2060

They are at great risk, due to the high number of sinners in Roodepoort.

 

[airborne]

So, what about the folks that died already because their indoctrination prevented them from getting blood transfusions in the past?

Unlucky them, right?

That's what I was wondering, also as with many other wonky JW beliefs if you got a transfusion or supported someone who did then they kicked you out and had all your friends and family cut all contact, are those people welcome back in now?

This blood thing has always been a huge thing with the JW and they claim their "special" people have a direct connection to god himself so how the fk did they get this so horribly wrong?!

This isn't the first major back track they've made, human beings are soo weird, once they get indoctrinated in whatever belief system it is they shut down all reasoning related to that subject, so the current JWs will probably go ah ok well now we can get blood transfusions after all and not take a moment to consider maybe we are being scammed if we are supposed to be in gods own organisation how can they still get things so horribly wrong...

 

[Cray]

All the Jehovah's witnesses in heaven who died because they couldn't get a blood transfusion...

 

[Werner1975]

I can't understand how adults can believe and follow these backward beliefs in the name of religion.

 

[Grant]

That's the final straw, I'm throwing in my Witness card.

No more door knocking for me.

every dark cloud has a silver lining.

you can now join the mormons and experience the joys of magic underpants

 

[PlanesTrainsAutomobiles]

So ......... they just suddenly change their own rules???? What exactly then was the point of the rule before? What changed for them? Would they mind if their followers felt cheated?

 

[crysis]

Jehovah's Witnesses going woke too now?

 

[Goosfrabba]

That's the final straw, I'm throwing in my Witness card.

No more door knocking for me.

You were one knock away...

 

[WollieVerstege]

every dark cloud has a silver lining.

you can now join the mormons and experience the joys of magic underpants

Except the ones here on MyBB, they are only dark.

 

[thestaggy]

Not all blood is provided as whole blood - eg, plasmapheresis/apheresis

It may be further refined or even modified for specific use cases - clotting, etc

Oh. The wording made me think they were like Scientologists and numbers, calculations and other weird schit was involved.