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Date Posted: 25/01/10 11:07:57am
Author: Barbara
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Re: The JA Blues
In reply to: John Everett 's message, "The JA Blues" on 25/01/10 9:36:56am

I'll have a look, but to be honest, I'm feeling a bit worn out now, spiritually.

It's just all been a bit too much. It isn't that I hate the JA, but I just feel that for a start, women are considered to be second class citizens, that we are seen of as inferior in the JA. And women who have suffered sexual abuse are considered to be lower than pigs. I don't feel that Jesus ever treated women as second class citizens. I'm not speaking as a feminist here, I personally never really had any issue about the JA idea of women being homemakers, and wearing skirts, and things like that. But I was a child abuse victim and damaged because of that, and had a sad history. And I found out that I had been virtually put up for auction by JA elders - a homosexual man told me that he had been encouraged to have a relationship with me, to try to wean him off being gay! I was so hurt by the way I was treated, I knew nothing about this until this man told me, and I had trusted and liked some of these elders, I had thought of them as my spiritual brothers. I was outraged that my Christian family should treat me in such a disrespectful way. When I found out about this, I realised what these brothers of mine really thought about me, and it was not at all how Jesus would want me to be treated.

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Replies:

Smashed up -- Barbara, 25/01/10 11:13:46am
- The JA brother I was in love with -- Barbara, 25/01/10 11:23:25am
  - The homosexual man -- Barbara, 25/01/10 11:32:11am
    - Re: The homosexual man -- Johannes Vermeer, 25/01/10 4:41:11pm
      - Re: The homosexual man -- Barbara, 25/01/10 5:00:23pm
        Re: The homosexual man -- Johannes Vermeer, 25/01/10 5:26:37pm
        Re: The homosexual man -- Danny, 25/01/10 11:07:36pm
        collective memory loss -- Peter Eveleigh, 26/01/10 7:13:16pm
        To Johannes -- Barbara, 27/01/10 11:30:10pm
        Re: To Johannes -- Johannes Vermeer, 28/01/10 7:37:17am
Re: The JA Blues -- John Everett (Very very sad), 25/01/10 1:48:07pm
- Re: The JA Blues -- Barbara, 25/01/10 5:06:10pm
- Kindness -- Barbara, 25/01/10 5:30:01pm
- This is the letter I sent -- Barbara, 25/01/10 5:41:19pm
  - Re: This is the letter I sent -- John Everett, 25/01/10 8:50:58pm

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>I'll have a look, but to be honest, I'm feeling a bit >worn out now, spiritually. > >It's just all been a bit too much. It isn't that I >hate the JA, but I just feel that for a start, women >are considered to be second class citizens, that we >are seen of as inferior in the JA. And women who have >suffered sexual abuse are considered to be lower than >pigs. I don't feel that Jesus ever treated women as >second class citizens. I'm not speaking as a feminist >here, I personally never really had any issue about >the JA idea of women being homemakers, and wearing >skirts, and things like that. But I was a child abuse >victim and damaged because of that, and had a sad >history. And I found out that I had been virtually put >up for auction by JA elders - a homosexual man told me >that he had been encouraged to have a relationship >with me, to try to wean him off being gay! I was so >hurt by the way I was treated, I knew nothing about >this until this man told me, and I had trusted and >liked some of these elders, I had thought of them as >my spiritual brothers. I was outraged that my >Christian family should treat me in such a >disrespectful way. When I found out about this, I >realised what these brothers of mine really thought >about me, and it was not at all how Jesus would want >me to be treated.
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