Watchtower at the hospital
March 31st, 2008 | Published in Morality, Thoughts, Religion | 2 Comments
I was looking through the magazine rack at the hospital and noticed a number of Watchtower pamphlets. For those who don’t know, Watchtower is the Jehovah’s Witnesses propaganda magazine. I became frustrated that they would put their literature there, preying upon sick and scared people at the hospital.
It also reminded me of my time in high school when a friend and I would put gospel tracts in books (especially in the Occult section) at Books-a-Million. That was lame, but not this lame. I wasn’t preying upon the sick and scared, wooing them into a religion where it’s a sin to have blood transfusions.
Anyway, there are no more Watchtower magazines at that hospital.
March 31st, 2008 at 10:16 am (#)
We were silly, silly kids.
It could be worse, though - Christian Science doesn’t allow blood transfusions (or nearly any kind of medical intervention), and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Scientologists placing literature near psych wards. Their deception of the truly scared and helpless, the mentally ill, is reprehensible.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm (#)
I picked one of those up at a doctor’s office and thought it was a Christian magazine, until I started flipping and realized it wasn’t a just a moral Christian magazine, but a JW mag.