It's always fun (well for a geek like me anyway), to take a quote from a WT mag' and tweak it to show clearly the duplicitous nature of the writers. The first quote below has not been touched - compare it the one beneath.
Nic'
*** g90 1/22 pp. 9-10 Fraud in Science—A Greater Fraud ***
Evolutionists today use the same Pharisaic approach: ‘Believe as we do,’ they say. ‘All competent scientists believe evolution. All intelligent people believe it. Only the uneducated and the ignorant don’t believe it.’ By such intimidation and mental bullying, masses of people are herded into the evolutionists’ camp. They know nothing of the weaknesses and inadequacies of evolutionary theory or its unsound speculations and hypothesized impossibilities—such as the origin of life from inanimate chemicals. So they are swept along by the repetitious mantras recited by evolution’s propagandizers. The theory becomes dogma, its preachers become arrogant, and dissenters reap disdainful abuse. The tactics work. They did in Jesus’ day; they do today.
This four-word propaganda line, ‘Evolution is a fact,’ is little (little in content), is a simple sentence (easily said), and is repeated persistently (even 12 times in one short essay). It qualifies as effective brainwashing propaganda, and with repetition it reaches the status of a slogan—and slogans everywhere repeated are soon programmed into brains and tripped off tongues with little critical examination or skeptical dissection. Once a theory has been sloganized into community thinking, it no longer requires proof, and any who dissent are scorned. If such dissenters present rational refutation of the slogan’s validity, they are especially irritating and subjected to the only available response, namely, ridicule.
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g90 1/22 pp. 9-10 Fraud in Belief—A Greater Fraud ***Jehovah's Witnesses today use the same Pharisaic approach: ‘Believe as we do,’ they say. ‘All reasonable people believe in the truth. All intelligent people believe it. Only the uneducated and the ignorant don’t believe it.’ By such intimidation and mental bullying, masses of people are herded into the Watchower camp. They know nothing of the weaknesses and inadequacies of Watchtower doctrine or its unsound speculations and hypothesized impossibilities—such as the historically impossible dogma of 607 BCE. So they are swept along by the repetitious mantras recited by Elders and in print. The theory becomes dogma, its preachers become arrogant, and dissenters reap disdainful abuse. The tactics work. They did in Jesus’ day; they do today.
This four-word propaganda line, ‘We have the Truth,’ is little (little in content), is a simple sentence (easily said), and is repeated persistently (even 12 times in one short WT article). It qualifies as effective brainwashing propaganda, and with repetition it reaches the status of a slogan—and slogans everywhere repeated are soon programmed into brains and tripped off tongues with little critical examination or skeptical dissection. Once a theory has been sloganized into community thinking, it no longer requires proof, and any who dissent are scorned. If such dissenters present rational refutation of the slogan’s validity, they are especially irritating and subjected to the only available response, namely, ridicule.
'Nuff said.