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The Jehovah's Witnesses Cult with Mark and Kimberly O'Donnell

Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

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Do You Think You Ar Better Medical Care if You Don't Have a Blood Transfusion?

Jehovah's witnesses teach that blood transfusions harm your chances of healing from surgery. They instill unnatural fear of blood, so much so that the blood that you received into your body from a donor would reflect the personality traits of that donor. So it took decades, but they built up this incredibly unnatural fear. This was cult influence at its finest, or at its worst. But they built this fear into myself, my wife, my father. You know, kimmy's father was never even baptized as a witness, but he he was taught these things in bible study with the es. He had this incredible fear pobably allied would do to him tough.

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