Sam Human’s new ebook ‘Maria’s Keepers’ tells the story of Maria, a former Jehovah’s Witness in South Africa, and divulges gender victimisation, sexual abuse and cover-ups inside the church.
Maria managed to flee the church’s doctrines and management, however her freedom got here at a worth – she is shunned by her household, and might by no means see her mom or sister once more.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses is a worldwide, Christian-based non secular group that professes an unparalleled dedication to Jehovah (God). It claims to be politically impartial, racially and ethnically transcendent, and has a membership of eight million folks worldwide.
But many former Witnesses declare that it’s a fear-based doomsday cult that considers itself above all different perception programs.
Allegations of secular, cultish behaviour, homophobia, cash laundering, brainwashing and numerous accusations of institutionalised sexual abuse abound.
Coming into the church is simple, however leaving it may be a matter of life or dying, as Maria and numerous others found. Learn an excerpt beneath.
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As Lloyd Evans writes in The Reluctant Apostate: ‘I had no concept Witnesses felt love was conditional. Neglect the thought of blood being thicker than water. Should you dare to disagree about Jehovah, that blood loses its viscosity in a heartbeat. Little children turn out to be lifeless to the very individuals who gave them life, and mothers and dads are handled as invisible by these whom they cradled in…
