The Fastest Growing ‘Church’: Jehovah’s Winesses

by TheOldHippie 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  WTWizard

  This is the sort of publicity they want. Jack up the numbers with fake time slips, easy crapt placement work coupled with aggressive hounding to reactivate those who are inactive, and tight fear that the end is near, and all the numbers will appear to be heading up. Then publish them in the newspapers, and people will think it's a healthy organization. I hope Enron is still fresh in mind--Enron also looked quite healthy just before they collapsed.

  And yet they scorn publicity when it is exposing them for the pedophilia scandal. Read the news, but only if it is favorable to the witlesses. Believe them when they lie about the numbers so people will think they are the fastest growing religion in the region, but not when they tell the truth about pedophiles in the ranks being protected by the religion.
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  anewme

  I cannot believe they are a growing organization. They are a small group of people who are depressed about their own lives and life in general and who have given up and turned their backs on society as a whole.
  Only the very fringe of society fall prey to cults and clubs who promise a eutopian brotherhood to the lost and lonely and weird (at the cost of their precious freedom of thought and action.)
  Healthy minded people outright reject the message of the witnoids!
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  metatron

  As to the accuracy of Watchtower provided numbers, keep in mind that their count of total hours is not credible. Judge then, the rest.

  metatron
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  jwfacts

  Not to be forgotten is that they also have the highest turnover of any church.

  "The shift is greatest among mainliners, smaller faiths and sects. Jehovah's Witnesses are most "mobile." Accounting for less than 1 percent of American adults, one-third of their members leave the group, and two-fifths join from another religion."16 "Coming out of the Cults" Psychology Today January 1979
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  willyloman

  I cannot believe they are a growing organization.

  They are not "growing." The population in the U.S. is growing substantially and I doubt they are keeping up with it. Much of the growth gained by baptizing children. Go to any assembly and look at the 15 or 20 people getting dunked; almost all of them are kids.

  Also, as noted by metatron, above, the numbers are only as reliable as the FS numbers we used to turn in!
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  WTWizard

  I don't believe they are growing any more than I believe Enron was growing back in 2000. They have fake service slips. Children are being pushed to baptism at age 6 to boost the numbers, to give them that one-time boost to get such publicity. (And yet they whine when they get socked by the news for harboring pedophiles.) They have easy, robotic campaigns to draw in the inactives, coupled with hounding campaigns for all those who are inactive. They speed up the bringing of unbaptized publishers before they are ready for those stupid campaigns.

  And they wonder why when the numbers for 2008 cannot exceed 2007's growth. They are not going to be able to play this card many times more, since there are only so many "soft inactives" (that is, those who lapse and do not bother going, as opposed to those who are fading or are inactive on purpose). They already took their advance on children and not-yet-ready studies (I hope they are not going to push 3 year olds to get baptized to keep this going). I hope there are enough people leaving, and not enough incoming, to create a nasty 90%+ drop next year.
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  TheOldHippie

  "MIA 165,956"

  Don't forget there is something called DEATH .................. affecting some 1 % annually, it would mean 65,956 less MIA, bringing it down to 100,000.