{"id":7364,"date":"2013-06-11T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=7364"},"modified":"2013-06-11T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:21:00","slug":"growing-up-as-a-zealous-jehovahs-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/11\/growing-up-as-a-zealous-jehovahs-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Up as a Zealous Jehovah&#8217;s Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend James wrote this book: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0988493802\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0988493802&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20\">Deliverance at Hand!: The Redemption of a Devout Jehovah&#8217;s Witness<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0988493802\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> is James Zimmerman&#8217;s fascinating story of growing up as a zealous Jehovah&#8217;s Witness. It is a gripping account of the unique difficulties and all-consuming nature of belonging to an insulated, apocalyptic community. James is held up as a shining example for other youths in the religion, is given unprecedented privileges, and spends his youth proselytizing. He may very well have knocked on your door.<\/p>\n<p>But as he matures, fissures begin to form in the bedrock of his fundamentalist Jehovah&#8217;s Witness belief system. Is the bible the literal, infallible word of God? Can the story of Noah&#8217;s ark really be true? Are these the final days before Armageddon? Will the Witnesses soon inherit paradise while the nonbelievers are destroyed? Is the day of deliverance truly at hand?<\/p>\n<p>As James&#8217; doubts grow, so does his predicament: Leaving a religious community that teaches its members to shun former members would have deep and painful ramifications. He must make the decision between intellectual honesty and his way of life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this point I think you can only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0988493802\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0988493802&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20\">PRE ORDER<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0988493802\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> it but go ahead and do that! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend James wrote this book: Deliverance at Hand!: The Redemption of a Devout Jehovah&#8217;s Witness is James Zimmerman&#8217;s fascinating story of growing up as a zealous Jehovah&#8217;s Witness. It is a gripping account of the unique difficulties and all-consuming nature of belonging to an insulated, apocalyptic community. James is held up as a shining &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/11\/growing-up-as-a-zealous-jehovahs-witness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Growing Up as a Zealous Jehovah&#8217;s Witness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1UM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7365,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions\/7365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}