by marmot 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
The one thing the GB fear in their paranoid bunker is for a government to attempt to extinguish them. If they saw this beginning to happen they could declare it was prophesied. The drones would all respond appropriately and cough up more cash.
It is in their interest to keep this cheap prediction available on tap.
From what I can see, they've already started distancing themselves from it.
They no longer print the Revelation Climax book, nor is it available in digital form.
marmot - "... 'certain militarized elements within the United Nations' will turn against false religion is a completely vague cop-out. That's like saying 'certain members of the human species who breathe air' will turn on false religion..."
* snicker *
Familiarizing myself with actual real-world geopolitics went a long way towards helping me realize just how increasingly implausible Fred Franz's old Cold-War-centric End-Times script was becoming as time went on.
That's a problem when declaring that Revelation is going on as we speak - the tendency to shoe-horn in whatever they see around them. Trouble is, it maligns those it accuses, often for no reason. The watchtower view on Revelation is fundamentally flawed, not just wrt the UN
Propagating fear and ignorance has been a valuable commodity for the WTS. its something to print and allure people to their organization. Armageddon soon, Christ has returned, the great Tribulation soon, the UN to turn against all religions, these are all proclamations that the WTS has used and exploited to allure the public to the literature the WTS publishes and they are subsequently supported by the present belief in the Bible ( The Word of God )
Any group that wears purple socks and sings kumbaya every other full moon has no allegiance to God . . .
Any group that embrace faith or doesn't question the very existence of a God has no allegiance to God . . .
Any group that is "a group" has no allegiance to God . . .
. . . making claims about reality based on nothing other than personal preference or baseless opinion is hardly informative. Anyone can make any claim. What's important is the evidence we use to support them.
