? la guerre comme ? la guerre (In War as in War)

What does the insert from the NCS for February 1996 represent? To be honest, it gives the impression of an instruction on how to survive in a hostile habitat. The authors tried to give Jehovah's Witnesses instructions on how to act in almost all cases of life if he is admitted to a hospital and is "threatened" with treatment with the use of transfusions of blood or its components, or with the use of blood products. The main advice is the same: "NO BLOOD."

First of all, to make it clear how serious the proposed material is, the OSB asks in the title of the insert: "Are you ready for a test of faith in the event of medical intervention?" - after which he immediately advises: "Keep this information where you can find it immediately if necessary."

The first three paragraphs serve the purpose of making the reader of the insert take the following material seriously.

"None of us thinks that today or tomorrow we can suddenly end up in the hospital. ... Yes, if you have an accident or your health suddenly deteriorates, your faith may be unexpectedly put to the test."

Next, he is asked a number of questions:

"If you don't normally use medicine to maintain your health, what will you do to protect yourself from blood transfusions if you have an accident and are taken unconscious to the hospital?

What would you do to remain chaste if, for whatever reason, you ended up in the hospital and someone told you that without a blood transfusion you would die?

Would you immediately agree with the statement that your state of health is hopelessly bad?

Are you convinced that you need to give up blood?

Are you willing to face such a test of faith and 'abstain from blood'?"

After the questions posed, it is said that