This way to the Kingdom

Peckham is blessed with places of worship including one for Jehovah’s Witnesses. A family on my street are Jehovah’s Witnesses. The son told me that in his religion birthdays are not celebrated. He looked sad about this, and I must say not celebrating the day when you have struggled from the womb to the world is mean-spirited. Come to think about it, you don’t often see a happy Jehovah’s Witness. This may be due to the way they are treated on the doorstep when they visit to recruit followers to their belief that better times will come… once we’re dead. Or, rather, once they're dead because I think they get a better deal in the Kingdom.