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Growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness, I was not able to celebrate the Fourth of July. Or any holiday for that matter. In my personal opinion, that is a form of their brainwashing that they used against the people that are involved in the religion. It’s a form of alienation or a separation from everybody else. Everybody else can do this, but you can’t because you know the truth of what God says, but God didn’t say anything like that so it’s kind of confusing. It’s the religion that says that it almost gives you a superiority complex. I am better than you because I know the true religion and I know that this is against the rule, but it’s the rule of the religion not reality. It was always strange being in school as a kid not celebrating the holidays and I knew that we weren’t supposed to, but everybody would always ask and the religion would tell you to tell everybody why and why you didn’t celebrate but as a kid why would you wanna say that it’s just weird. I would say that that is probably the most common thing I hear about when people find out that I was raised a Jehovah’s Witness. Oh, you don’t celebrate any of the holidays or birthdays, but there is so much more to that. when I say those Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t even know whose door they knocked on, it’s not because I’m wearing a crazy outfit. It’s because I have the knowledge and the capacity to speak freely. I know all the tactics that they use when they go door-to-door. I know they religion from start to beginning I was raised in it. When I left, I gained the ability to not only speak in the Jehovah’s Witness language, but the language of reality in life in general. Also, it’s been a while…