Personal Testimony: My Kids Were Trapped In Watchtower Societys Jehovahs Witnesses

The children tell their story of what it was like to grow up in the Jehovah's Witness environment, such as:

1. At school, Jehovah's Witness children must follow the "rules" set by their religion, especially those forbidding extracurricular activities with non-Jehovah's Witness children.
2. Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate holidays.
3. Now is not the time to get married & have children; Jehovah's Witness youth should spend their time going door to door.
4. The Jehovah's Witness child's "goal" in life is "pioneering" (missionary work), not careers.

This video is a useful tool for Christian apologists & people with relatives with children who are "trapped" in the Jehovah's Witnesses. Knowledge of Jehovah's Witness history, doctrine & theology can help relatives win child custody cases in court as was the situation here.

The beginning of the Jehovah's Witness religion can be traced back to Charles Taze Russell who was a men's clothing manager. Russell was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1852, was raised as a Presbyterian, but later changed to the Congregational Church. Russell was unhappy with many church teachings, especially predestination and eternal punishment, so he left the mainline churches for good and at the age of 18 began his own Bible class consisting of six people. By 1876 his small group of followers elected him as "Pastor" and the title stuck. Russell's following began to grow in 1879, when he first founded and published a magazine entitled, "Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence," which is now known as "The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom."