1085: What It's Like to be a Jehovah's Witness - Lloyd Evans
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Continuing our interview with Lloyd Evans, we focus this portion of the interview on Lloyd’s experience living as a Jehovah’s Witness—drawing occasional parallels between those living life as Mormons and those who are Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Lloyd is the founder and senior editor of JWsurvey.org—a website that promotes freeness of thought among Jehovah’s Witnesses. He is also author of “The Reluctant Apostate,” a book that chronicles his experiences growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness and his journey to freedom from Watchtower indoctrination. His wildly popular Youtube channel “John Cedars” hosts a range of videos aimed at dissecting the various teachings of Jehovah’s Witnesses, as well as new developments in the religion.
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| 0:35.2 | So I definitely want to end by doing your story. But what's occurring to me is a middle piece |
| 0:57.9 | of this interview where we talk about where you paint the picture of the modern orthodox |
| 1:06.6 | Jehovah's Witness life, what their life is like and what their teachings are like so that we can set |
| 1:12.9 | up what Jehovah's Witness orthodoxy is in the modern era so that then we can talk about your |
| 1:20.2 | apostasy. Does that make sense? It does although I don't quite understand that the term |
| 1:28.2 | Jehovah's Witness orthodoxy because there is only Jehovah's Witness orthodoxy. There's not |
| 1:34.5 | like there's an alternative you can't be like an unorthodox Jehovah's Witness. So I get it and |
| 1:40.0 | it's the same thing with Mormonism. I think we have introduced an orthodoxy to Mormonism, just Mormon |
| 1:46.8 | stories me, whatever progressive Mormonism has kind of emerged. I see. But an orthodox Mormon would |
| 1:54.8 | never even know what the term orthodox meant and they would never have heard that word ever used. |
| 2:00.6 | So I understand what you're saying since there's no such thing as progressive or liberal |
| 2:06.8 | Jehovah's Witnessism, what would I call it? There's Mormonism. Let's see equivalent term for |
| 2:14.1 | the Jehovah's Witness movement. I don't think it's just Jehovah's Witnesses. Yeah. Well, |
| 2:19.2 | it's hard to- As people not as a movement. I don't think that I don't think there is such a thing |
| 2:24.0 | that Jehovah's Witnesses know. Okay. Okay. Okay. So thank you for correcting me. |
| 2:30.6 | There you either Jehovah's Witness or you're not. Yeah. All right, so let me reframe that. What I'd |
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