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How difficult is it to leave the Jehovah's Witnesses? To answer this question, I met with Krish, a Jehovah's Witness dropout. Krish joined the religious community at the age of four, because that was when his mother became a follower of Jehovah's Witnesses. Until he was 25, he was an active member of Jehovah's Witnesses and attended meetings three times a week - not always voluntarily! Pressure and control are the order of the day with Jehovah's Witnesses: If you miss meetings and don't get involved enough, there will be discussions about inappropriate behavior. But the decisive factor for leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses was ultimately something else: At some point, Krish thought that he didn't want to reduce people to their faith alone - but in his opinion, that's exactly what Jehovah's Witnesses do! And that was also evident after he left: His supposedly good friends who he had in the religious community no longer greeted him and even crossed the street when they saw him - Krish was completely ignored! Leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses means that your social circle simply collapses from one day to the next. "It is precisely this rule that makes the religious community so dangerous," the Jehovah's Witness dropout tells me. He tells me how he is doing today and how he now sees the religious community in the video "Jehovah's Witness dropouts: This is how difficult it really is to leave!" Do you want to see all the episodes on the question "When does faith become too extreme?"? Here is the playlist: • House of prayer instead of office - a life for... This is the question: There are these big, tricky questions that have no easy answers. How do I cope with death? What is so hot about a fetish? Should I be afraid of psychiatric care? I look for answers to these questions, week after week, for you. I am not satisfied with easy answers - I prefer to try things out, dig deeper and go where it gets uncomfortable. I don't ask experts, I'm mostly there: in psychiatric hospitals, at fetish parties, in rescue helicopters. There's a new episode every Tuesday at 1 p.m. ► Follow me on Facebook: / diefrage ───────────────────────────── The question is a program from #funk. Check it out: YouTube: / funkofficialfunk Web app: https://go.funk.netFacebook: / funk Legal notice: http://go.funk.net/impressumfunk is a joint offering by the Association of Broadcasting Corporations of the Federal Republic of Germany (ARD) and the Second German Television (ZDF).