Soraya on Growing Up as One of Jehovah’s Witnesses

Soraya, thank you very much for talking with us.

Thank you all very much.

You were born,

you grew up in a Jehovah’s Witness family.

What things did you do that were different from what other children did?

Well, from the moment I was born

I did many things differently.

For example,

at school I did

not celebrate

any of the children’s birthdays,

I tried not to do activities with them because they were worldly children, meaning,

they were not Jehovah’s Witnesses. We did not celebrate Mother’s Day,

Father’s Day,

Halloween, Christmas…

— Nothing.— Nothing. Because all of that

for Jehovah’s Witnesses were pagan, worldly celebrations and

we were not supposed to take part in them.

All your relationships, therefore,

were Jehovah’s Witnesses.

All your friends,

Jehovah’s Witnesses.

That’s right.

The only good company was Jehovah’s Witnesses, because

the world lay in the power of Satan,

and sooner or later the people of the world were going

to lead us down a path that was going to take us away from the organization.

There is an idea for Jehovah’s Witnesses, a phrase for Jehovah’s Witnesses,

which is:“ We are light,

the world is darkness.”- Mmh.- How is that built?

Well, from the beginning, when you are born

in a place where they tell you that you are God’s chosen people and that within

God’s people everything is peace and harmony,

then it seems clear.

And you start to see the world as a duality: them, us,

light, darkness.

And they take advantage of all these

situations of war,

sickness, pandemic, to tell you that this was already

written in the Bible and that it was the sign of that Jehovah was going to step in,

was going to bring an Armageddon,

was going to destroy all the governments

and all the people who have opposed him,

and that therefore only…

were going to survive…

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Original transcript (Spanish)

Soraya, muchas gracias por hablar con nosotros. Muchas gracias a vosotros. Tú naciste, Tú naciste, creciste en una familia de Testigos de Jehová. ¿Qué cosas hacías que hacía muchas cosas diferentes.

Por ejemplo, en el colegio no celebraba los cumpleaños de ninguno de los niños, Por ejemplo, en el colegio no celebraba los cumpleaños de ninguno de los niños, intentaba no tener actividades con ellos porque eran niños mundanos, es decir, no eran Testigos de Jehová. - Nada. - Nada. Porque todo eso

- Nada. - Nada. Porque todo eso para los Testigos de Jehová eran celebraciones paganas y del mundo y nosotros no teníamos que participar de ellas. Todas tus relaciones, por lo tanto, eran Testigos de Jehová. Todos tus amigos, Testigos de Jehová. Eso es.

Las únicas buenas compañías eran los Testigos de Jehová, porque Las únicas buenas compañías eran los Testigos de Jehová, porque el mundo yacía en el poder de Satanás y tarde o temprano la gente del mundo nos iba a llevar por un derrotero que nos iba el mundo es oscuridad". - Mmh. - ¿Cómo se construye eso? Pues desde el principio,

el mundo es oscuridad". - Mmh. - ¿Cómo se construye eso? Pues desde el principio, cuando naces en un sitio donde te dicen que eres el pueblo escogido de Dios y que dentro del pueblo de Dios es todo paz y armonía, pues lo ves claro. Y empiezas a ver el mundo pues como una dualidad: ellos, nosotros, luz, oscuridad. Y empiezas a ver el mundo pues como una dualidad: ellos, nosotros, luz, oscuridad.

Y aprovechan Y aprovechan todas estas situaciones que hay de guerra, enfermedad, pandemia, para decirte que esto ya lo ponía en la Biblia y que era la señal de iba a destruir a todos los gobiernos

y a todas las personas que se hayan opuesto a él, y que por lo tanto iban a sobrevivir solo... y que por lo tanto iban a sobrevivir solo...

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