Watchtower's Anti-Gay Indoctrination Cartoon - Cedars' vlog no. 117

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hello there many of you will already be familiar with watchtowers Caleb and Sofia cartoon series in which millions of Jehovah's Witness children have already been told that Jehovah hates certain kinds of plastic action figures who likes magic Jehovah or Satan Satan right magic is bad that's why I Jehovah hates it do you really want to play with something that your hova hates they've also been told to give their ice cream money as donations to watchtower and who could forget the grim warning that failing to pay attention Jehovah's Witness meetings could cost you your life he'd be the tension and it saved his life being attention at the meetings can help save your life at Genesis 622 we read previously none of these grotesque child propaganda cartoons have instructed kids on how to be small-minded bigoted judgmental homophobes with classmates who happen to have gay or lesbian parents but all that has now changed brace yourselves for a hideous new cartoon titled lesson 22 one man one woman yes Sofia has just had the traumatic experience of seeing a family sketch that doesn't exactly mirror that of her own instead of having a mummy and a daddy her friend Kari has a mummy and a money troubled by her discovery that not all families are the same Sofia later approaches her mother look mom I drew her family in school today oh wow I didn't have time to finish Caleb's face Kari drew two mommies she told me they're married to each other my teacher says that all that matters is that people love each other and that they're happy quite right I'm not only is people loving each other and being happy all that really matters it isn't actually anyone's business how others decide to live their lives but Sophia's mother has other ideas hmm well people have their own ideas about what is right and wrong but what matters is how Jehovah feels or more specifically what matters is one religions fundamentalist interpretation of what God thinks on a given subject he wants us to be happy and he knows how we can be happiest that's why he invented marriage the way he did you mean one man and one woman exactly yes marriage is an invention and Jehovah is its inventor we know this because of a story in Genesis involving a talking snake that must be true because the same book tells us it's true and when of stories in books ever turned out to be fabricated apparently not only has God decided that one man one woman is the only gender configuration in which marriage can work he also insists that even gays and lesbians cannot be happy unless they use the Garden of Eden story as a blueprint for their lives so if kari's mommy and mummy insists they're in a happy loving relationship what would they know about anything jehovah insists that unless they break up and each get saddled with bloke they're going to be miserable look at Genesis 1:27 Jehovah created Adam and Eve male and female then in Genesis 2:24 he said that a man will stick to his wife then in Genesis 25 verse 6 Abraham had a wife and concubines then in Genesis 46 Jacob had two wives and had children by them and their handmaidens then in second samuel 5:13 King David had multiple wives and concubines then in first Kings 11 verse 3 King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines I'm confused where are we going with all this later Jesus said the same thing Joba standards haven't changed actually Jesus had nothing to say at all on the subject of homosexuality seriously if you don't believe me google it if you read the verse that is cited by Watchtower in this video in context namely Matthew 19 verses 4 & 5 you see that Jesus is being questioned on whether it is lawful for a man to divorce his wife on any grounds to this Jesus replies have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said for this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife and the two will be one flesh so that they are no longer two but one flesh therefore what god has yoga gether let no man put apart Jesus was clearly offering his views on divorce not on homosexuality now obviously the Apostle Paul had plenty to say about men who line with men but then he was a converted Pharisee and Pharisees were obsessed with enforcing the law codes from the Old Testament the Old Testament did have plenty to say about those who practice homosexuality being worthy of death but then it also prescribed the death penalty for girls who lie about their virginity for men who collect wood on the wrong day a for rebellious sons who eat and drink too much and for bearing false testimony so if you're going to get all hung up with what is written about gay people in the Old Testament you also need to be equally fixated with people who do all those other things the sardines were these of death in the Mosaic law code it's kind of like going on an airplane what would happen if someone wanted to bring something on the plane that wasn't allowed the clink on the trip right it's the same with Jehovah he wants us to be his friend and live in Paradise forever we have to follow his standards to get there at Matthew 7:13 and 14 it talks about the road leading to paradise to get there java says we have to leave some things behind that means anything Jehovah doesn't approve of this is very clever rather than overtly threatening gay people with death as I mageddon if they don't change their ways Watchtower chooses a more subtle tactic a gay person is likened to someone trying to fly out to a paradise destination with contraband in his hand luggage to be allowed to continue on his journey all he needs to do is surrender the forbidden item and he can get on the plane this leaves the impression that if the gay person doesn't want to surrender what in his bags in other words change who he is the worst case scenario is that his ticket gets cancelled and he has to wander around duty-free for a while before getting a taxi back to his hotel but in the doomsday teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses that's not how it works a gay person who refuses to give up the forbidden item in his luggage will be bundled away by security along with everyone else who refuses to conform to the demands of the governing body in New York and when Armageddon comes all those who don't bend their knee to watchtower and live according to the governing bodies wishes will be annihilated in a hail of fireballs this is a followers or die scenario not a followers or don't fly scenario but I want everyone to get to paradise so does Jehovah absolute nonsense if Jehovah wants everyone to get to paradise he has a strange way of showing it according to Watchtower teachings Armageddon will strike at any moment and when that happens only Jehovah's Witnesses will be spared from being massacred that is after all the whole point of Jehovah's Witnesses doing their preaching work in the first place to give people the chance to change their wicked ways and join them if it were purely down to God deciding to save whoever has a good heart the preaching work wouldn't be needed let's put all this in perspective there are just over 8 million Jehovah's Witnesses and an estimated seven point four billion people on the planet that seven thousand four hundred million versus eight million so when Jehovah begins his bloodbath even assuming a best-case scenario where every single Jehovah's Witness lives and that is by no means a given according to watchtower well over 7 billion people including billions of children will be slaughtered by a god who apparently wants them all to survive through into paradise go figure and you know what people can change that's why we share his message yes of course how could I forget gay people can change if you're a gay person it's only because you chose to be gay as a lifestyle choice it's not like you were born gay or something all the gay people in the world are apparently only gay because being in a persecuted minority that is subjected to constant bigotry discrimination and abuse is apparently the easiest and most enjoyable option so what can you say to Kerry well I could tell her about the paradise I could tell her about the animals and the resurrection that's awesome let's practice yes let's practice imposing our indoctrinated small-minded bigotry on others let's not just be content to do what we think is right let's make sure as many people as possible do what we think is right as well this for me is the most sickening aspect of the Christian evangelical fixation with gay people for some reason in their minds homosexuality is not just something this involves other people they seem to view it as something that other people must stop doing because otherwise it might spread like some kind of contagious disease listen just as people are born gay people are born straight the notion of asking a straight person to start being gay is just as silly as that of asking a gay person to live a lie and pretend he's straight if you are a Christian evangelical and you are somehow offended by gay and lesbian people I have news for you they will carry on being gay or lesbian regardless of your views and they have no interest in inflicting their nature on you in the same way as you are apparently obsessed with inflicting yours on them as appalled as I am at the way this awful video deliberately sets out to turn happy carefree Jehovah's Witness kids into judgmental narrow-minded homophobic little pricks I'm actually more concerned about the bigger picture yesterday I finished watching a film on Netflix called God loves Uganda which just happens to touch on this very issue I would urge everyone to watch it whether they are atheists or believers the film clearly shows how obsessing over what other people do with their genitals is not only juvenile and intrusive it's also dangerous and can quickly lead into unbridled hatred and even violence in the case of Uganda an impoverished country in which the majority of people have limited access to a good education is being exploited by Christian evangelical radicals from the USA these four not SIGG's are exploiting an opportunity to not only preach their message of hate but to get their bigotry enshrined in law as a result of the work of these missionaries who are themselves mostly products of child indoctrination laws have been passed in Uganda that punish gay people with life imprisonment the film also shows how an LGBT activist David Kato was brutally murdered by a mob in the wave of hatred this has engulfed the country all inspired by the so-called Christian preaching of u.s. evangelicals simply put homophobia is a serious issue that has a real effect on people's lives and I for one am deeply ashamed that Jehovah's Witnesses the religion of my birth are jumping on the bandwagon to the extent of putting out this vile cartoon again if you're watching this video and you disagree with homosexuality that is your choice but sooner or later you will need to come to terms with the fact that homosexuality itself is not a choice and gay and lesbian people have the right to live their lives peacefully without being bullied harassed or discriminated against purely because of who they are they are not trying to influence you to be like them so you have no right sending your kids to try to influence them to be like you my name is Lloyd Evans and you've been watching my john cedars channel please subscribe for more videos and thank you for watching you

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Channel: John Cedars

Views: 84,912

Rating: 4.5701904 out of 5

Keywords: jehovah's witnesses, jw.org, kingdom hall, jehovah, cult cartoon, gay, lesbian, homophobia, evangelical, caleb and sophia, one man one woman, lesson 22, jw, lgbt

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Length: 14min 59sec (899 seconds)

Published: Tue May 03 2016

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I love how Sophia is alone in the classroom. It brought back memories of being the only kid standing outside while the other children played together. I could hear them laughing and playing while Sophia has to deal with adult shit because she has brainwashed parents.

👍︎︎ 21 👤︎︎ u/ShunofaB2 📅︎︎ May 03 2016 🗫︎ replies

What a lovely charity!

👍︎︎ 13 👤︎︎ u/wifibandit 📅︎︎ May 03 2016 🗫︎ replies

I find this shocking. The watchtower are snakes..using cartoons to indoctrinate small children.

👍︎︎ 11 👤︎︎ u/seriouslyrelieved 📅︎︎ May 03 2016 🗫︎ replies

So the message of the cartoon is, "We don't hate gays, but God does." Which can't possibly lead us to hating gays. The old "hate the sin, but not the sinner" thing.

👍︎︎ 11 👤︎︎ u/[deleted] 📅︎︎ May 03 2016 🗫︎ replies

Thanks for another great video Lloyd!

this from the YouTube comments

great Lloyd, I'm gay and an active JW, It is so difficult to deal with this hate and homophobia into the organization. I'm one of the silent majority that desagrees with the GB aka Watchtower

👍︎︎ 11 👤︎︎ u/ThePoetryOfReality 📅︎︎ May 03 2016 🗫︎ replies

I can just imagine Cassie reacting to Sophia witnessing to her: poor Cassie runs home crying hysterically and telling her parents that God will not let them in the panda petting paradise unless they leave all their lesbian luggage behind them...

👍︎︎ 9 👤︎︎ u/LynnRivers 📅︎︎ May 03 2016 🗫︎ replies