Hey guys, my name’s Matt, and I’ve wanted to come online and kind of be public about being an ex-Jehovah’s Witness, an Ex-Elder, ex-batholite, um, ex-pioneer, and… about it. My life was 100% completely devoted to Jehovah’s Witnesses and their organization. I loved it for the longest time. I saw a lot of problems for the longest time and I felt that the church could kind of self-monitor itself and fix the problems internally. And here I am today, shunned by every person that is ever loved, that I’ve ever loved and who’s ever loved me my entire life, including my mom, my dad, my brother, my uncles and aunts, my cousins. Every childhood, friends, my closest friends. have no idea. What kind of psychological damage that does to someone? to lose, not only, you know, your family, and your friends, but every acquaintance as well. Yes. All of my acquaintances were Jehovah’s Witnesses. I had very few that were like worldly non-believers. And today, I think why this is staying so hard is today’s my parents’ wedding anniversary, November 27th. 1971. So what, 51 years later? And I’ve never felt so far and so alone. And It’s so sad. I hope if somebody stumbles across, that is, they understand that shunning, shunning is not going to make me come back. Shunning’s gonna make me run further away. And to me, it’s an indicator. that Jehovah’s Witnesses do not have God’s favor. They don’t. This is inhumane. A god of love does not support this. And if you support this, you don’t have God.