Should youthful Jehovah's Witnesses that are disfellowshiped, or disassociated, report to the Military when?

Thank about what you are saying for a minute Someone's conscience shouldn't depend on association to a religious organization. If for some reason my conscience tells me that I should not join the military, why should that change just because someone gets disfellowshipped This reminds me of a conversation I had the other day with a JW cousin of mine. She was saying that if for some reason she got disfellowshipped , she would make sure she celebrated at least one Xmas before trying to come back to the Org, because she thinks Xmas is nice I proceeded to tell her, that in that case she really doesn't feel that Xmas is bad, but instead just avoids Xmas because she is told to.

Left her thinking about that one.

As far as I know there is no draft in place, that is if you are speaking of the USA. Since there is no draft there is no need for a conscientious objector card. Young people join the military for many different reasons.In the case of young Witnesses that happen to get disfellowshiped, most of the time they are trying to get reinstated so they would not pledge their allegiance to their country when they already have to Jehovah.

Everyone in the military is a volunteer there isn't a draft anymore and all Jehovah's witnesses are conscientious objectors. I know of some who went to prison for their faith. So they do not get a get out of jail free card.

No. Many people who are *not* JWs are still conscientious objectors, whether the government wants to acknowledge that or not.

Not our business...my son did it once too when younger CUZ PISCES DONT WISH TO KILL anyone and we were not jws.

A disfellowshipped JW may be repentant and actually trying get his life back on track according to bible standars... It takes time for a DF'd person to prove he has fully repented and therefore, he could still be a conscientious objector (due to the fact that he is still mentally objecting to service based on his knowlege and understanding of the bible) even while he is Disfellowshipped, also its not only people who believe in the bible who have grounds to ask for a conscientious status.. people of all faiths and beliefs may do so.. as long as they have grounds (based on their beliefs) to dissaprove of warfare and violence ect... I agree with Ben Smith :) Oh and in some places there is still drafting I think,,. In Austria, there is a compulsory 6 month military draft, but if you are a conscientiousness objector, you may either be pardoned or given an alternative :).

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