by Justitia Themis 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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rechap.8p.39par.7StrivingtoBeConquerors***But during World War I, they met up with intense hatred and opposition, partly because they did not get caught up in the war fever and partly because they were fearlessly exposing the errors of Christendom
What errors of Christendom were we exposing at this time? Did they still celebrate Christmas, birthdays, use the cross etc. at this time?
Justitia
I BELIEVE THEY STILL CELEBRATED XMAS ETC
PERHAPS IT WAS THE TRINITY,JUST A GUESS
We? They were still celebrating holidays and using the cross during WW1. Rutherford hated Catholics though and wrote a lot of anti-Catholic articles.
The whole Catholic thing is the only issue I'm finding also. Apparently, "The Finished Mystery" had, as the Proclaimer's book says, "cutting remarks" about the clergy. I wonder if anyone took the Bible Student's very seriously back then.
Justitia
They were busy making cartoons about Catholics, and attacking them, in much the same way that a chihuahua might chew on the cuff of one's pantleg...
The Bible Students were exposing Christendom's false dogmas long before WW1, in fact from when they started around 1879. Of course, that doesn't suit the Watchtower's desire to single out the WW1 period as something unique in order to support their claim that Jesus returned and inspected Christendom at that time.
In fact, during WW1 they were much less bold, with the preaching work almost coming to a complete halt by the latter stages.
And isn't it utterly ridiculous that many of the 'Bible Students' that were doing all of this fearless exposing during WW1 suddenly turned into the 'evil slave' class when they refused to kowtow to Joseph Rutherford's demands just a few short years after WW1.
