Cult Members are Under Total Mind Control
Almost every family in North America has a member who is under total mind control of the Watchtower Society. Some examples of the extreme discipline these people are under:
The Watchtower intrudes into the married bed. They have rules about sexual foreplay and state that a husband and wife’s passion “should not go unbridled.”
Watchtower rules shelter sex abusers of children in the Kingdom Halls.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are prohibited from
Playing chess
Possessing wind chimes
Attending any event sponsored by a church, including a picnic.
Giving to the Red Cross or Salvation Army.
These are just some of the topics covered in my book, Rescuing Slaves of the Watchtower, Hannibal Books, 2011, . ISBN 978-1-61315-006-1. Available in Christian bookstores, Amazon.com, www.joebhewitt.net; www.rescuewatchtowerslaves.com, in print or e-book from Barnes and Noble, Sony or Amazon.
My first book, I Was Raised a Jehovah’s Witness, (Accent Books, Denver, Colo. 1979; Kregel Publishing, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1997). Sold 45,000 copies in English and more in Chinese translation published in Taiwan.
I served as pastor of churches in the Dallas area for 39 years. I retired in 2001 and devote most of my time to writing and serving as a court-appointed mediator handling cases for Dallas and contiguous counties.
The whole load of hay information on www.joebhewitt.net.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Routine Circumcision of Baby Boys
Some people want to routinely cut off part of helpless baby boys’ penises just in case they should grow up to be sexually promiscuous and/or fail to keep themselves clean. Not as bad as some Africans’ custom of “circumcising” (more like mutilating) young girls by cutting off their clitoris lest they grow up and want to enjoy sex. Not as bad, but close.
Those who advocate routine circumcision of all baby boys are obviously circumcised males and females who don’t know any better. They are the least qualified to claim a right to assume power over baby boys’ future sex life.
Circumcision is a religious sacrifice. It indicates total submission to God. The circumcised man has forfeited some sexual enjoyment for life. A family’s religion is the only justification of routine circumcision of every baby boy.
Routine circumcision has nothing to do with religion but rather with vogue, utility and big-brother-knows-best. I knew young soldiers who underwent circumcision only because they wanted to be like the other guys: the majority who were circumcised.
The idea behind routine circumcision is that circumcised men are less likely to contract the HIV virus.
It’s not like we were facing an AIDS epidemic by leaving all those foreskins intact. The increased vulnerability for the uncircumcised is minuscule at best and non-existent if he practices monogamy and/or cleanliness.
Explaining the difference in sexual satisfaction to a circumcised man is like trying to explain a rainbow to a person born color blind. He doesn’t know what he missed because he never had it.
The foreskin not only is a protective sheath, but sensitive nerves in the foreskin provide much of the pleasure of sexual intercourse. Because the tip of the foreskin is so sensitive, the aroused man can find the correct place of entry “with no hands.” The foreskin keeps the male’s natural lubricant where it needs to be. The lubricant works its way within the foreskin and prepares the head for entry. As entry is achieved the sheath slides down the shaft. Those sensitive nerves in the foreskin now form a ring around the shaft enhancing sexual pleasure.
To remove the protective sheath from the sensitive penis head is like turning a woman’s vagina inside out and exposing it to the drying air and irritants. It would lessen sensitivity and necessitate artificial lubricants; the same results of male circumcision.
Rather than routinely circumcising baby boys, I suggest a less drastic approach to the HIV problem. Teach them the old adage, “Be good. If you can’t be good, be careful.” Or you might paraphrase it, “If you can’t keep that thing in your pants, at least keep it clean.”
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Joe B. Hewitt is a retired pastor who did marriage
and family counseling during his 39 years of ministry.
Those who advocate routine circumcision of all baby boys are obviously circumcised males and females who don’t know any better. They are the least qualified to claim a right to assume power over baby boys’ future sex life.
Circumcision is a religious sacrifice. It indicates total submission to God. The circumcised man has forfeited some sexual enjoyment for life. A family’s religion is the only justification of routine circumcision of every baby boy.
Routine circumcision has nothing to do with religion but rather with vogue, utility and big-brother-knows-best. I knew young soldiers who underwent circumcision only because they wanted to be like the other guys: the majority who were circumcised.
The idea behind routine circumcision is that circumcised men are less likely to contract the HIV virus.
It’s not like we were facing an AIDS epidemic by leaving all those foreskins intact. The increased vulnerability for the uncircumcised is minuscule at best and non-existent if he practices monogamy and/or cleanliness.
Explaining the difference in sexual satisfaction to a circumcised man is like trying to explain a rainbow to a person born color blind. He doesn’t know what he missed because he never had it.
The foreskin not only is a protective sheath, but sensitive nerves in the foreskin provide much of the pleasure of sexual intercourse. Because the tip of the foreskin is so sensitive, the aroused man can find the correct place of entry “with no hands.” The foreskin keeps the male’s natural lubricant where it needs to be. The lubricant works its way within the foreskin and prepares the head for entry. As entry is achieved the sheath slides down the shaft. Those sensitive nerves in the foreskin now form a ring around the shaft enhancing sexual pleasure.
To remove the protective sheath from the sensitive penis head is like turning a woman’s vagina inside out and exposing it to the drying air and irritants. It would lessen sensitivity and necessitate artificial lubricants; the same results of male circumcision.
Rather than routinely circumcising baby boys, I suggest a less drastic approach to the HIV problem. Teach them the old adage, “Be good. If you can’t be good, be careful.” Or you might paraphrase it, “If you can’t keep that thing in your pants, at least keep it clean.”
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Joe B. Hewitt is a retired pastor who did marriage
and family counseling during his 39 years of ministry.
Dealing Death Legally
Each time I go to a super market or major discount store and see racks of cigarettes, snuff and chewing tobacco, I think of the more than 300,000 people in the United States and 500,000 people in Europe killed each year by tobacco products. And I wonder, "Do these retailers have a conscience? Do they care at all about human life?"
The middle aged lady behind the counter just works there. It's not her decision to sell the stuff. Same with the manager. You can ask questions all the way up to the corporate board rooms. "Business is business. We have to compete."
Obviously profits from sale of tobacco products are more important to them than human lives.
Tobacco bad news is not hidden in a corner. "Big Tobacco needs to recruit 500,000 new smokers each year to replace the ones who die prematurely due to smoking-related illnesses . . ." news reports quoted David Byrne, the European Union health commissioner after the EU outlawed tobacco ads on December 2, 2002.
In the United States the tobacco industry has been socked with billion-dollar court judgments for killing people. Yet the industry considers those losses part of the cost of doing business and keeps on going. Grocery chains, discount stores, and drug stores keep on retailing the deadly products, some of which finds their way to teenagers who become addicted and fill the ranks of the old smokers who are dying off.
Tobacco farmers keep on growing it. Big Tobacco keeps on making cigarettes, snuff, and chewing tobacco. Wholesalers keep on distributing. Retailers keep on selling. People keep on dying. Who cares?
I started smoking when I was 15, before I had enough sense to make such a life or death decision. I fortunately was able to quit when I was 30. I have outlived my old friends who could not quit. I have been present many times when people died, killed by tobacco. When I see a man die, gasping for breath in cancer-filled lungs, I think of those racks of cigarettes, the nice lady selling them, the store manager, the president of the company, and the board of directors. Corporations are not mechanical entities out of control. Humans make up the mechanism that grows, makes, distributes, and sells tobacco. Have they no conscience?
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The middle aged lady behind the counter just works there. It's not her decision to sell the stuff. Same with the manager. You can ask questions all the way up to the corporate board rooms. "Business is business. We have to compete."
Obviously profits from sale of tobacco products are more important to them than human lives.
Tobacco bad news is not hidden in a corner. "Big Tobacco needs to recruit 500,000 new smokers each year to replace the ones who die prematurely due to smoking-related illnesses . . ." news reports quoted David Byrne, the European Union health commissioner after the EU outlawed tobacco ads on December 2, 2002.
In the United States the tobacco industry has been socked with billion-dollar court judgments for killing people. Yet the industry considers those losses part of the cost of doing business and keeps on going. Grocery chains, discount stores, and drug stores keep on retailing the deadly products, some of which finds their way to teenagers who become addicted and fill the ranks of the old smokers who are dying off.
Tobacco farmers keep on growing it. Big Tobacco keeps on making cigarettes, snuff, and chewing tobacco. Wholesalers keep on distributing. Retailers keep on selling. People keep on dying. Who cares?
I started smoking when I was 15, before I had enough sense to make such a life or death decision. I fortunately was able to quit when I was 30. I have outlived my old friends who could not quit. I have been present many times when people died, killed by tobacco. When I see a man die, gasping for breath in cancer-filled lungs, I think of those racks of cigarettes, the nice lady selling them, the store manager, the president of the company, and the board of directors. Corporations are not mechanical entities out of control. Humans make up the mechanism that grows, makes, distributes, and sells tobacco. Have they no conscience?
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