Mini skirts, beards and ties





Recently Jehovahs Witnesses introduced the fashion police - okay maybe not police but a set of rules that are posted on every kingdom hall notice board that dictates what is and what is not acceptable dress and grooming for JW's.

Skirt length, dress tightness, jacket and trouser snugness all have specifications for what is and what is not acceptable.  Sisters must not wear their hair short, brothers must not wear theirs too long. Accentuating breasts or revealing thigh flesh is reproachable while tight trousers for men is out of bounds.

These are rules and regulations for adults!  Seriously, does this organisation have so little respect for the common sense of its own members that it feels the necessity to treat them all like children?

For years JW's have dictated that a man should not wear a beard - why?

A beard is a natural state for a man, it is part of mans design (if you believe he was designed and created by God).  There is little doubt that Jesus would have had a beard (after all Gillette was not available when Jesus shopped at Walmart).  So, by JW rules, if Jesus was around today sporting a thick Arabic beard he would not be allowed to teach from the platform.

The organisation will defend themselves by pointing to the bible, claiming that women should not bring attention to themselves with 'adornment' and men should also dress with a decorum that honours God.

Does not beauty honour God?  Does this grand creator create dowdy, ugly, plain forms to worship him?  Or are many of his creations magnificent, beautiful and attractive?  So those men and women who do not reach those heights of beauty are not permitted to try and emulate their peers using make-up, clothes and hairstyles?

God's ultimate desire for man - according to JW's - is perfection.  Is perfection not only spiritual and mental but also physical?  Did Adam fall in love with a woman who had no interest in looking her best?

The bible insinuates that Eve was perfect in every way - a beautiful woman.  What right do JW's have to insist that imperfect women should not strive to emulate Eve, a creation of God?

They argue that everything in the bible is inspired of God and therefore must be obeyed.  What they don't see is that there are so many contradictions between the words in the bible and common sense.

For instance take Corinthians 13 and it's many assertions regarding love.  Despite it's claims love often fails.  It might 'believe all things' but that doesn't mean all things are believable.  It might 'endure' all things but that doesn't mean that enduring all things is either right or sensible.  Apparently love never fails - tell that to a spouse who has been cheated or a parent who loses a child to drug abuse or even a religious cult.

Sadly this latest puritanical set of rules are another indication that the Governing Body of Jehovahs Witnesses are losing the plot.

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