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by phugoid 3705 days ago
Unless it involves blood transfusions in any form, there's no issue.

At the risk of being argumentative, it would be a case of dying for his own idea of God.

From my point of view, he wasn't a straight-and-narrow JW member because he kept performing material which didn't fit that view. I doubt that anyone had the pleasant surprise of Prince knocking on their door one Saturday morning.

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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/11/24/soup-with-princ...

"Prince had his change of faith, he said, after a two-year-long debate with a musician friend, Larry Graham. “I don’t see it really as a conversion,” he said. “More, you know, it’s a realization. It’s like Morpheus and Neo in ‘The Matrix.’ “ He attends meetings at a local Kingdom Hall, and, like his fellow-witnesses, he leaves his gated community from time to time to knock on doors and proselytize. “Sometimes people act surprised, but mostly they’re really cool about it,” he said."

I just heard a story from a listener of The Current about exactly that: Prince pulled up in a van at her friend's house with a couple other people and spread the word.