Howdy Zev & others,
I'm so glad that y'all have brought this discussion over here. Out of curiousity - has there ever been an in-depth discussion of the WTBTS being "partners" in the United Nations? I've been web-hopping for 1.5 years and never read it.
Historically, the WTBTS has been 100% opposed to the League of Nations, and their successor - the United Nations, which is biblically (according to the WTBTS) the Image of the Wild Beast and The Disgusting Thing standing in the Holy Place of God.
It's so very compelling that the WTBTS had to submit written published articles to the UN to prove that they support the UN principles and ethics. The UN decided upon making the WTBTS a "partner NGO" after this submitting, according to their published requirements.
Thanks for the fine thread over at H20. If anybody's interested, there's different posters debating back and forth and submitting other points of interest on this. Look for the heading about United Nations. There are also the "positive WT/Awake! articles about the UN" posted there. They exist.
Also, just click to http://www.un.org and look around. Not hard to find the WTBTS.
To read the United Nations website and find the Watchtower there as an "approved NGO" partner (their words) is to come away feeling like a major fool once again.
The WTBTS has proved again that they will, indeed, get in bed with whoever/whatever is necessary to further their growth. Even The Disgusting Thing of Revelation.
Sounds like a bad movie, eh?
waiting