The Watchtower and its sclerotic leadership face a mountain of
challenges, to be sure. Any one of these obstacles will doom
them, if left unchecked:
Mass exodus of youth
Declining revenues
Continuing exposure and collapse of doctrine
Corruption amidst leadership
Yet, there remains a powerful challenge whose very existence
I would have found beyond all belief only a decade ago.
The challenge of a moral world
For some, who look only at the surface, such a claim seems
like nonsense - a world where gays openly proclaim their
lifestyle - a world drawing Witness kids into "fornication"
- a world still full of every sort of fear and threat.
Yet, I am astounded at the profoundly altruistic response of
so many strangers - is this the NYC where I was mugged years
ago? Where I always walked glancing over my shoulder?( I still do!)
I am amazed by a government that preaches toleration in unity,
condemning attacks and insults directed towards people from
the Middle East. Things have changed a great deal since the
Nisei were put in internment camps during WW2.
The good that exists in this human world is winning. Even amidst
the horror and tragedy - and coming war- thru fits and starts,
the world is improving ethically. Men like Gandhi and Martin
Luther King led the way, sacrificing themselves - and thereby
creating shame amidst those who claimed the status of "Christian".
Increasingly, the Watchtower will face a grim choice of compromise
- or hiding its cult-like aims behind glossy propaganda - and
then encountering SHAME and "loss of face" whenever its gospel
of fear and clannish selfcenteredness is exposed. Are they in trouble in Europe? Good! Let them keep hiding their real teachings about
Armageddon's intended victims while peddling Awakes that speak
of sympathies THEY DON'T FEEL! Let them fight for tax exemptions
they don't merit! (charity? towards worldly people?)
I went to a college graduation some months back
They played "America the Beautiful" and sang its words.
I cried
because the goal of brotherhood , long elusive and thought
impossible, is being achieved. Yes, Virginia, the world is
getting better, little by little - and good luck to the WTS
in such an environment!
God bless America,
metatron (Boom! just close the curtains and keep on working,
sisters!)