About this website
In case you’re wondering why I created this website, it began as part of a research paper for a college course I took in world religions. My intention was to write a descriptive piece about the disintegration of conventional western Christianity. I surfed through the Internet looking for background material, and I noticed that there were numerous “ex” sites that had been created by individuals who were once a part of organized Christianity but are no longer so. I figured I could learn a lot about the decline of modern western Christianity if I investigated what some of the dissenters themselves had to say. I also noticed that the many of these “ex” Christian websites target Catholics and Jehovah's Witnesses. I was curious to know more, and so I researched further.
I read the information and personal stories on these “ex” websites because I thought doing so would help me develop a platform from which I could write a more objective paper. Unfortunately, none of the “ex” websites were very helpful in this regard. The stories were mostly subjective commentaries and unproven accusations, and many contributors wrote extremely nasty things about friends, families, and colleagues that they had left behind. In fact, the most memorable thing about their stories is the extraordinary amount of negativity that emanates from them. As well, the letters and stories claim to be from ‘liberated’ Christians, who somehow got to a point where they now ‘see the light’ and they’ve moved on to other religious and social groups. Some have written books and journals, copies of which are offered for sale on their websites. Interestingly, the overwhelming majority of these books offer little in the form of spiritually uplifting content; rather, a lot of the material are vitriolic attacks against the Catholic Church and the Watchtower Society. Conceivably, ‘seeing the light’ in these specific instances was not spiritual growth on the part of these liberated individuals at all, just petty vengeance!
Further, I also noticed that some of the personal stories on the “ex” websites had a strange similarity about them, almost as if they were written by the same individual with just a slight twist here and there to make each one seem different from the others. Even if all these stories really were written by different people, many of them were certainly edited by the same individual (perhaps for enhanced dramatic efffect). Some of the "ex" websites are operated by the same person or group of persons who have some very serious issues to vent, especially against the Watchtower organization. I decided to focus on the Jehovah’s Witnesses because so much of the anti-Christian sentiment seems to be directed at that group.
I’ve always believed in “live and let live” and this is the reason I would never even bother to pretend to be a Christian. It has been extremely amusing to observe the high profile hypocrisy that obtains in some of these "ex" JW groups, but I will comment more on this issue on the next couple of pages (use the navigator link at the top left of this site to move between the site pages).
This website is neither an “ex” JW website nor an “ex” JW bitch board. And, it is neither pro-JW or anti-JW. In fact, I purposefully didn’t include a guestbook or an e-mail address because I’m not at all interested in drama or controversy. This is simply an expression of my personal opinions about the “ex” Jehovah’s Witness movement, and it is based on the conclusions of my research. You are welcome to agree or to disagree with whatever is written here.
