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...waiting
Door opens and a young man steps into the light.
JW: Good morning.
Bob: Good morning.
JW: We are calling on you're neighborhood today and asking people this question "ls religion serving the needs of the people, or are people being used to supply the needs of religion?"
Bob: That is a good question, but before I attempt to answer that, can you tell me... are you leading up to where you offer me an opportunity to contribute to YOUR church?
JW: Well ...we leave our literature at no cost, but we do accept modest donations to our worldwide work.
Bob: Interesting... Well, I don't read your literature anyway, what with it being so distructive of people's faith.
JW: (puzzled look) What do you mean? The Watchtower seeks to build faith.
Bob: Really! I have seen many an article that just rips at people's faith structure with articles designed to stumble folkes ...
JW: I have never seen anything like that in the Watchtower!
Bob: You want me to believe that you have never read, for instance, a Watchtower article that dredges up the Church's history in onder to stumble God fearing churchers?
JW: Well, (condescendingly) that's different. There have been a few articles where the Church's activity during the war years is uncovered ...but... (gesture with hand)
Bob: And you are going to tell me that that kind of stuff isn't designed to be destructive of a person's faith???
JW: Well... it's not intended to stumble, the Watchtower is just exposing the facts.
Bob: ...and you don't feel that digging up ugly facts about a person's religion is faith undermining, that it's designed to stumble members of the particular religions discussed?
JW: NO! (emphatically)
Bob: Well you are in disagreement with your own religion.
JW: What'd you mean??
Bob: When people dig up dirt on YOUR religion, your leaders claim its disruptive of YOUR faith, and that it's designed to stumble YOU!
JW: WE'RE DIFFERENT! (intensely)
Bob: Really? How...?
JW: ...well ...we ...we ...ahh ...we don't ...
Bob: (interrupting) ...you don't have dirt? Is that what you are groping for?
JW: Well... no ...we don't... Jehovah's organization is pure!
Bob: You, of course, mean the Watchtower organization ...
JW: Yes, and our history is clean because ...we don't get involved ...
Bob: So, you don't believe that it's possible for someone to tell you something about the history of YOUR religion that would stumble you?
JW: No!
Bob: That theory is easily tested. How about the letter J.F. Rutherford wrote to Adolf Hitler where Rutherford schmoozed up to Hitler and made positive statements in favor of the Nazi party, statements that said that the Nazi's and the Watchtower had lot's in common including a dislike for the Jews and the western nations. Wouldn't you be stumbled to find out about that.
JW: WHAT LETTER? That's a lie!
Bob: Well. Your leaders really HAVE kept you in the dark. The original letter, rescued from the Nazi archives has been reproduced on the internet along with english and other language translations. Your leaders make no effort to refute it either ...they just paint the internet as evil to keep YOU away from finding out.
JW: l don't believe you!
Bob: You have such freedom in your religion, why don't you call your branch office and inquire about it. And while you're at it, ask about the changes made to the procedure for you to ask for money. Ask the branch office to deny, in writing, that it was precipitated by the failure of the Watchtower's court action in defense of Jimmy Swaggart!
JW: Swaggart?(questioningly)
Bob: The TV evangelist who was caught with all the hookers...
JW: The Watchtower would never have anything to do with him!
Bob: (chuckling) Really! Prove me wrong. Bring me a letter from the branch office denying that they took legal action in the State of California just prior to you're literature becoming 'no cost', -legal action to try to prevent sales tax from being imposed on Swaggart's literature. You people are so eager to prove people wrong ... Prove ME wrong! Bring me a written statement denying the letter of Rutherford to Hitler and the Swaggart defense by Watchtower lawyers.
JW: Well l'll just ask our elders about these things.
Bob: I didn't stumble you did I?
JW: NO! (visibly shaken)
Bob: Good ...because I wouldn't want you to be stumbled ...so that you wouldn't come back to see me again or something.
JW: Oh, I'll be back ...and with proof that we never had anything to do with Jimmy Swaggart.
Bob: Written rebuttal from the Watchtower headquarters ...and also something about J.F. Rutherford's letter to Adolf Hitler.
JW: I will ask our elders as soon as I can.
Bob: Denials from one of your 'elders' is meaningless ...they are as equally un-informed as you, and anything they have to say is un-official.
JW: Then I will ask them to write the Society about it.
Bob: And you promise to come back?
JW: Absolutely.
Bob: Are you sure?
JW: The Bible says to let your yes mean yes and your no mean no.
Bob: Don't take too long ...I might lose interest.
Epilogue: The JW never came back ...so much for your "yes mean yes". Wherever that JW is, perhaps by now disfellowshipped for asking the 'elders' questions about those issues, it's sure that today there's one less completely ignorant JW.
Interestingly, the Jehovah's Witnesses don't call on Bob's house anymore. He even called the Kingdom Hall asking for a visit, but was told that the elders were 'too busy'. Bob asked if someone else could come to answer his questions, but was again told that the elders were 'too busy'.
Bob knew that the JW would not be able to get an official denial from the Watchtower, for Watchtower officials know that this would only add to the number of people who publish the fact that the Watchtower is a Liar Organization.
All those Watchtower lawyers, and they're still unable to bring a libel suit against those who are publicly calling them Liar.