THERE ARE THINGS YOU NEVER FORGET Its not easy to write a friendly letter to the members of that religious movement which in the early 50s destroyed our family. My mother refused to receive a blood transfusion a year before she died. That she still involuntarily received a blood transfusion on her deathbed, I didnt know before August this year. It did a great impression on me and got past and present to flow together. It is now 60 years since, but there are things you never forget. Today it is also clear to me that my familys collapse in the early 1950s became crucial for our life and further destiny. It was also decisive for my decision to write the story of my childhoods religion. My first book of 1966 was specifically written to the members of Jehovahs Witnesses. The fact that this book would get two successors in 2006 and 2013, I had not imagined at that time. I was sure that I at the end of 1966 had written me completely free of this religious movement and that it was the last book on that issue I would write. Afterwards there went 26 years without thinking about the subject at all. However, around 1990 I was approached by former now expelled members. I was the hitherto most notorious ex-JWs in Denmark, and I think probably I was sunning myself a bit in the attention. In 2003 I was retired, why I decided to take my old topic up again. Also, because of curiosity. What had happened since my wife and I had left the Witnesses in 1959. It was an incredible story that had to be told. It became Judgment Day Must Wait, published in Danish in 2006 and in English in 2013, now greatly enhanced and updated. After I went to Facebook for now barely a little year ago, the past has resurfaced. Particularly because I was asked to write my personal story to a new website, as Gregory Schroeder asked me to write: read it at ad1914/ The pictures poured out from the storage of memories from past, which we all carry with us on our path in life. Photos from the familys life before 1951 and after, when my parentss parted ways. Old pictures from the difficult years when my mother fought a heroic fight for survival. Pictures from her funeral. The image of my outcast father, who fought for the right to carry the coffin, to the pictures from the grave. Only recently the significance of these events has dawned on me. That I myself was expelled in 1964 is almost a sideshow. But this drama became fast / quickly one of the motivating factors that ended with three books on JW. Therefore I wrote JDMW, to tell the unvarnished story of JW -- among other to the members of that congregatuion and that movement. An attempt to write a critical but fair book about the subject. Read the exciting and dramatic story of Jehovahs Witnesses in JDMW. It is written for you -- Jehovahs Witnesses, members of other Churches, professors and all who are interested in this unbelievable story. Poul Bregninge, author of Judgment Day Must Wait, YBK Publishers, New York, 2013. You can see it here: tinyurl/kbsdhcb
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:15:07 +0000
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