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   >>These are the direct from pagan practices the jw wedding ritual uses.   
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   >>1. bride maids fdressed alike.   
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   >>2 The brides dress color and use of a vail.   
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   >>3. Use of and exchange of rings; and the finger upon which it is worn.   
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   >>4. the brides bouquet of flowers.   
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   >>5 having and cutting a cake and passing it around.   
      
   Friend james offers this jw vatican excuse for using pagan originated   
   practices:   
      
   >Thus, the KEY to whether a situation with a suspected pagan source is ok   
   >to do, is if that situation is done with FALSE RELIGIOUS PRACTICES.   
   >Servant needs to remember this, since he has brought it up several times   
   >before.   
   >   
   >So since there is no false religious practices being done at a JW   
   >weddings, they can do pretty much what they want.   
      
   Hmm; let's test that clam of friend james in the last sentence as to the   
   excuse and weddings.   
      
   1. jw wedding pagan originated/pracices are vnot said to apply; friend   
   james does not show us the explicit linkage from jw vatican sources to that   
   end.   
      
   2. in direct contridiction for using the excuse for the pagan wedding   
   items;the jw vatican has explicity forbidden tossing confetti/rice at   
   wedings. because it is pagan in origin/practice.  Cllearly nothing makes it   
   any different then all the other items above.   
      
   As tested; the jw vatican excuse is not included for jw pagan weding   
   practices.   
      
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