Today June, Jarrod, Sarah and I went to the holocaust museum in Farmington Hills. It was a very interesting place, but truly sad. The history of the jewish peoples was there, then it went into the holocaust. It went into how it started, how the peoples were taken to the concentration camps, how some were put to death, some were put into labor camps, some were experimented on. There was a room where news reels showed the reality of what the allied troops found when they freed the people in the camps. The emaciation and sores on these poor human beings was appalling. The next room had pillers with stories of victims. It had their pictures on them and how they came to be in the camps. It told how many of their families survived.
This experience proved to me how truly blessed I am. And my family. My parents would have been taken to the camps had we been Jews, or even Jehovah's Witness, gypsys or another group the Nazi's decided were decadent.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Holocaust Museum
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It is an insult to memorialize the handful of anti-societal trouble-seeking JWs alongside the SIX MILLION Jewish Holocaust victims given that Jehovah's Witnesses view the Jews much as did the Nazis.
The WatchTower Cult teaches its own version of "replacement theology", which says that GOD rejected the Jews as His "chosen people", and replaced them with today's "Jehovah's Witnesses". In fact, the title "Jehovah's Witnesses" was originally applied to the Jews by the Prophet Isaiah, and is even quoted on the wall at the entrance to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. The WatchTower Society, in calling its own members "Jehovah's Witnesses" is attempting to steal that designation away from the Jews. The WatchTower Cult even teaches that all of the Bible's promises of restoration for the Jewish people now belongs to the followers of the Cult.
There were only approximately 6000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany during the 1930s-40s. While many of those 6000 German JWs were repeatedly arrested during the 1930s and 1940s, only a fraction were jailed or imprisoned for any significant length of time. Only about 200-300 German JWs lost their lives, and the majority of those died from any number of causes other than having been executed. Approximately 1000 JWs from other European countries lost their lives while incarcerated by the Nazis.
During that same time period, there were more Jehovah's Witnesses arrested and jailed in the United States than in Germany. In fact, from 1941 until 1945, approximately 4500 American Jehovah's Witnesses "elected" to go to prison rather than serve in the U.S. Military and go fight against those same Nazis who were committing those atrocities. Approximately 3000 of those 4500 American JWs were even offered "conscientious objector" status, in which they were offered "non-combatant" work as a substitute, but 99% of those JWs refused to even help that much.
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