WatchTower Society Requirement: Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse blood transfusions

Filed under: News | By: Daniel
Posted on: November 5, 2007 | 54 Comments

WatchTower Society Requirement
Following on from the post earlier today about the Jehovah Witness “Emma Gough” who died after refusing a blood transfusion, we had a comment from Georgia which was very long and informative about The WatchTower Society Requirement and why Jehovah Witnesses refuse blood transfusions.

Here is Georgia’s comment:
This WatchTower Society requirement that Jehovah’s Witnesses must refuse to accept any blood transfusions dates back only to 1945. Misinterpreting the Old Testament prohibition against eating animal blood as a routine food item, the WatchTower Society began teaching in 1945 that receiving a blood transfusion was “eating human blood”. Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that receiving an infusion of human blood into their body’s circulatory system is scientifically the exact same thing as eating or ingesting blood into their body’s digestive system.

“A patient in the hospital maybe fed through the mouth, through the nose, or through the veins. When sugar solutions are given intravenously it is called intravenous feeding. So the hospital’s own terminology recognizes as feeding the process of putting nutrition into one’s system via the veins. Hence the attendant administering the transfusion is feeding the patient through the veins, and the patient receiving it is eating through his veins.” — The WATCHTOWER magazine, July 1, 1951.

Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse to acknowledge that when human blood is transfused into their body’s circulatory system that the transfused human blood remains to be human blood and continues to function as human blood. Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse to acknowledge that if blood is eaten, then the ingested blood enters the body’s digestive system, where the blood would be treated by the body exactly the same as it would treat a hotdog, a potato chip, or any other food item. Ingested blood would be completely digested and broken down into proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and waste; which are then either assimilated or excreted by the body.

The WatchTower Society uses scriptures which speak about the blood of slaughtered animals to teach Jehovah’s Witnesses that blood is “sacred” because blood is the “symbol of life”. Then, the WatchTower Society turns around and requires Jehovah’s Witnesses to sacrifice their own “life” to maintain the alleged “sacredness” of a “symbol” of the very thing they are sacrificing — their life. Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse to acknowledge that the WatchTower doctrine on blood moronically places a higher value on the SYMBOL than it does on the THING SYMBOLIZED.

In fact, the Old Testament scriptures permitted the eating of unbled animal meat, which the Bible treats exactly the same as eating animal blood itself. In isolated occasions, when humans needed to eat unbled meat in order to sustain their own human life, the Mosaic Law permitted such, but then required the eaters to fulfill the requirements of being “unclean” for a few days. Thus, the Bible recognized that the sustaining of human life was more “sacred” than maintaining the sacredness of animal blood. To do otherwise would be doing exactly what the moronic WatchTower Society does. It would make the SYMBOL more SACRED than the THING SYMBOLIZED.

In fact, the WatchTower Society is leading Jehovah’s Witnesses to disobey GOD and violate the Holy Scriptures in one of the most serious ways possible. Because humans were created in GOD’s image, GOD considers human life sacred. A Jehovah’s Witness who sacrifices their SACRED LIFE in order to maintain the sacredness of a SYMBOL of that SACRED LIFE varies little from those who profane life by committing suicide. Those Jehovah’s Witness Elders who teach and police this moronic doctrine vary little from common accessories to murder. The Bible is fairly clear in how GOD views murder, and how He deals with Murderers.

This moronic twisting of scripture would be laughable if not for the fact that it has lead to the pointless deaths of numerous Jehovah’s Witnesses in the past, and it will continue to lead to the pointless deaths of many more Jehovah’s Witnesses in the future.

SUMMARIES OF 300 JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES LAWSUITS & COURT CASES

The following website summarizes over 315 U.S. court cases and lawsuits affecting children of Jehovah’s Witness Parents, including 200+ cases where the JW Parents refused to consent to life-saving blood transfusions for their dying children:

DIVORCE, BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS, AND OTHER LEGAL ISSUES AFFECTING CHILDREN OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

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Comments

54 Responses to “WatchTower Society Requirement: Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse blood transfusions”

  1. Scott Gates says:

    Darrell Wood said:..”Someone died for something they truly believed in. A belief they held dear and true to them.”

    A lie is certaninly not a cause to believe in… much less die for. Jehovah’s Witnesses hold the icon of life (blood) more precious than life itself. If only they were allowed to read the literature the Watchtower prohibits them to read.

  2. FM says:

    Emms was never released from hospital, she breastfed the babies before she took ill, the JW dr at the hospital ordered dr’s to give increased iron which stabilised her but once her family went home her condition got worse, a blood transfusion would not of saved her life, she had a haematoma having blood may well of made her have a heart attack and she would of lost her life anyway.

  3. PropMin says:

    The Changing Watchtower Blood Policy; Why?

    That is, why are some fractions ok, some not, some converted into a “conscience matter”?

    *Hedge against Legal Liability

    *Shifts more responsibility to the “believer”; see #1

    *To move a controversial, and increasingly unpopular (especially in secular courts), doctrine more to the “center”. [They can't change this all at once; too many legal consequences, and bad publicity. This hideous, death-dealing teaching will change again, but It must be done incrementally; this way they can "re-write" the "believers" memories just as they did with 'allowing' fractions. Few JW's now hardly remember a time when fractions weren't "allowed". See Orwell's "1984" for details on how this all works...]

    *Helps perpetuate the existence of the “Organization”; see #1

    *A more “Liberal” “policy looks more attractive to secular Societies and countries where the WT is trying to get established

    *Easy to doublespeak; while telling believers one thing, the WT can tell courts and governments another, and “technically”, “legally”, be “right” in both instances.

    http://jehovah.net.au/blood.html

    http://propmin.blogspot.com/

  4. I was born a 3rd generation Jehovah’s Witness in 1957 and endured the Watchtower’s no blood commandment with longstanding bleeding Crohn’s disease.The Watchtower leadership expects followers to die for their dogma and many have.The medical staff get blamed and are ‘damned if they do damned if they don’t’.

    Danny Haszard

  5. Anon says:

    I knew a little girl who had leukaemia, her parents were Witnesses and objected to a so-called ‘life-saving’ blood transfusion. The decision was over-ruled, but guess what? That little girl died anyway, more to the point, it was the blood transfusion that killed her. This story didn’t make the news, what a surprise. But if someone dies when they refuse a transfusion this makes front page headlines. There is no reason why someone should die from not having a blood transfusion.

  6. Scott Gates says:

    Anon……Can you expand on your story regarding the little girl with leukemia? What kind of leukemia did she have? Why do you say the blood transfusion killed her? When did this happen and where? Do you work in the medical profession? Please understand that we can all tell a story but unless it can be objectively confirmed, it is just a story.

    Your statement “There is no reason why someone should die from not having a blood transfusion” tells me you do not understand the purpose of blood. There are literally thousands of people alive today or others that added years to their lives because they had a blood transfusion.

  7. Lefi says:

    You said:

    “In isolated occasions, when humans needed to eat unbled meat in order to sustain their own human life, the Mosaic Law permitted such, but then required the eaters to fulfill the requirements of being “unclean” for a few days. Thus, the Bible recognized that the sustaining of human life was more “sacred” than maintaining the sacredness of animal blood.”

    Where is this found in the Bible? I want to use it to show my JW friends…

  8. Denieca says:

    Iam not a jehovahs witness…….i wanna be one and i will..let me just say thus, blood is sacred and i do believe persnally that blood transfusion are wrong and may even lead to what they try to prevent death. With the increase of tatoos, viruses ect blood transfusion are extremly dangerous and need much consideration. Most person from what i have read fer death… prolonging life is stupid………… if u so much believein god let him do his work if a person is meant to die the will not even blood transfusion can sve them.. i wish pplz would leave the jehovah witness organization alone and quit trying to prolong live u cant live this life for ever so stop fearing the unknown .build a bridge and get over it..death is normal if u are perfect which u are not u must die. it is in dying that u are born to etenal life according to catholics so see death as a positive………. why prolong life in these current conditions..death is must!!!!!!!!!

  9. Lover says:

    denieca jehovah’s witness wanabee say’s–”why prolong life in these current conditions..death is must!!!!!!!!!

    ~~~

    This is why you cult members are forbidden to come on my property and forbidden to talk to any of my family.

  10. Kerry Louderback-Wood says:

    If blood is sacred, then why allow fractions?

    Why not mix the Kool-Aid now, if this life is so wicked?

    What about children, granchildren, and other relatives who will benefit from your being here?

    What about these twins, who do not have a mom?

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