Examples of Apostate 'Love'

In response to a recent article on the continuing harassment of Witnesses in Russia ( http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/82751/ ), Teary became engaged in this interesting line of discussion:

Teary: Very sad. And here Teary thought that Russia might have a chance to move away from minority oppression, but it seems now that they are just backsliding more and more.

Opposer 1: you are simple stupid,there is no oppression in Russia, oppression and persecutions in Russia sentence extreme minority to Siberia,or heavy labor prison.

Teary: 

"In February 2009, the Russian Federation General Prosecutor’s Office ordered local prosecutors’ offices throughout Russia to gather any negative information they could find on Jehovah’s Witnesses. They were authorized to involve agencies of the FSB, police, public health agencies, local departments of justice, and military commissariats to try and find such negative information. As a result, over 500 investigations have been initiated against individual Witnesses and our Local Religious Organizations. Thus, the General Prosecutor’s Office is orchestrating a witch hunt on Jehovah’s Witnesses that will lead to the criminal prosecution of individuals simply because of their religious convictions.

For instance, on April 23, Mr. Yuriy Panov was discussing the Bible with local residents in the town of Ramon, in the Voronezh Region when local police stopped him, falsely accused him of committing burglaries in the neighborhood, and took him to the police station. Because Mr. Panov refused to admit to the false accusations, the police handcuffed and beat him. They also forced him to wear a gas mask and cut off the oxygen supply so that he could not breathe. After they threatened to administer electric shocks and sexually assault him, Mr. Panov was so intimidated that he admitted to the burglaries. The police then abruptly ended the torture and stated that they had made a mistake in accusing Mr. Panov of any crime.

On May 24, police in the city of Asbest raided a religious meeting of Jehovah’s Witnesses, without a warrant or legal basis, and unlawfully detained 50 Witnesses. A female congregation member who was present was subjected to police interrogations that were so coercive that shortly afterward she was hospitalized and suffered a miscarriage. A 15-year-old boy who was also in attendance was detained over three weeks in a foster home, despite repeated efforts on the part of his parents to procure his release."

Opposer 2 (in direct response to the atrocities that Teary just mentioned): Ha ha! Russia had the right idea: rid the world of Jehovah's Witnesses by ANY MEANS NECESSARY!

Take some time to let that last comment soak in.

Opposers of Witnesses are always complaining about how the Witnesses are 'evil' and 'unloving' and 'deceptive' and 'mean.' But if the above is the alternative that the other side is encouraging active Witnesses to aspire to (hatred so strong that you promote the beating of innocent civilians and the killing of babies because of nothing more than religious bigotry), then Teary would much rather just remain a 'mean,' 'deceptive' old Jehovah's Witness.