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B J Kotwall (Investigator 33, 1993 November)
The Watchtower
Society
(WTS) recently
made
the following statement about vaccinations:
(Awake! 1993 August 8 p.25) Whether the WTS
has been
"consistent" in
their
stand on vaccinations the reader may judge from the following
quotations:
"Reasons why
vaccination is
unscriptural... Vaccination
is a direct violation of the Everlasting Covenant that God made with
Noah
after the flood…"
(The Golden Age 1931 February 4 p. 293) "As vaccination
is a
direct injection
of
animal matter in the blood stream, vaccination is a direct violation of
the law of Jehovah God." "Vaccination is
a direct
violation of
the
holy law of Jehovah God… I have no alternative. I must obey Jehovah’s
law."
(The Golden Age 1935 April 24 p. 471 – quoting court testimony of Maria Braught)
"Oh, yes, serums
vaccines, toxins,
inoculations,
are all 'harmless', because the man who is selling them says so. You,
my
friends, believe this LIE, and continue to submit your body to these
violations;
then all I can say is, 'God have mercy on your soul'… All vaccination
is
unphysiological a crime against nature." "After
consideration of
the matter it
(vaccination)
does not appear to us to be in violation of the everlasting covenant
made
with Noah, as set down in Genesis 9:4, nor contrary to God-s related
commandment
at Leviticus 17:10-14… Hence all objection to vaccination on Scriptural
grounds is lacking." In Investigator
No. 8 it was explained how the
anti-blood doctrine of the WTS was a spin-off from their
anti-vaccination
doctrine. Vaccinations were banned for 21 years from 1931 to 1952. The
same Bible verses were used which they presently use to justify the
transfusion
ban notably Genesis 9:4 and Leviticus 17:10-14.
The WTS also
imposed a
ban on organ
transplants
for 13 years from 1967 to 1980, claiming that organ transplants were
unbiblical
and cannibalistic. The same Bible verses from Genesis were cited for
that
too! (The Watchtower 1967 November 15 pp. 702-704) This view was
reversed
in 1980. (The Watchtower 1980 March 15 p. 31) Nobody knows
how many
JWs
went blind by refusing cornea transplants. The WTS gave no apology for
its shift in position!
How can the
WTS writers,
in honesty and
without
being ashamed, claim that they have been "consistent"?
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