I hope the importance of this most-revealing issue is given the weight it deserves. One only needs to visit Barbara's website and look at the .pdf file. There, revealed for the world to see is the shocking document itself, together with Nathan Knorr's signature and picture on the document; there is Nathan Knorr himself SWEARING under Oath and by his own signature his personal Allegience to the United United states. This oath is far more emcompassing than the Pledge of Allegience to the Flag.
Like millions of others, I endured ridicule and embarrassment almost daily for 12 years in school because I was forbidden to not only say the Pledge, but to put my hand over my heart. I hand to stand there like a starched dummy and pray no one would notice. Of course they noticed. Children can be incredibly cruel, especially to people who are "different." I was called a Communist, a traitor and a freak, many, many times.
The leaders of the WTS told us all that we were ALL brothers and all equal and subject to the same Biblical laws, but it is obvious as George Orwell pointed out in Animal Farm, some brothers are more equal than other brothers and not subject to the same "Biblical" laws as other brothers.
People like me were prosecuted and sentenced for refusing military and alterntive military service, while Brothers in Mexico were officially told to LIE and bribe Mexican officials so they could illegally obtain a Military ID card.
People like me faced needless persecution for refusing to say the Pledge of Allegience and hundreds or thousands of people in Malawi were made homeless, raped and murdered because they were forced to refuse to obtain a political party ID card, when there was only ONE political party in the first place. As that was going on, people like Knorr, Franz, Henschel and those other bands of thieves in Brooklyn were swearing an oath of allegience to the Country so they could travel abroad. Obtaining a political party ID card is so innocuous that it is ridiculous to even discuss it. Swearing loyalty to an Earthly Government which is supposed to be an agent of Satan himself is such an act of hypocrisy that it is even more ridiculous to even discuss it.
The Beast the Harlot of Babylon the Great was taught to be so wicked that it would be responsible to starting in motion the battle of Armageddon. We were taught to hate it, be no part of it and pray for its "demise real soon now." Yet at the same time the WTS leaders entered into an "unholy" alliance with that Beast and swore to promote and uphold all of the principals and objectives of that Beast. This went on for years and would still be going on, had not their lying deceit been exposed. Then the WTS leaders lied and acted as if they were surprised that they had signed such a pledge, stating they only did it to get a UN Library Card. They quickly resigned. Had they actually been as ignorant as they said they were and only wanted that Library Card, they would have never resigned. And they resigned within days after that association was revealed on this very own board!
We were told to "Get ouf of Her", "Her" meaning good old Babylon the Grape, and we did. Yet the WTS leaders filed a "friend of the Court" brief in the Jimmy Swaggart tax case. Jimmy Swaggart was just about as bad any scumbag could actually be, a fraud, a crook, and an adulterer, and yet now, the WTS was his "friend." Then they lied about why they changed to the donation arrangement right after Swaggart lost his case. Note that for a number of years, the "new and simplified donation arrangement" was implemented ONLY in the USA after the Swaggart case was lost. In the rest of the world, the literature was "sold" to publishers as usual.
Then we have Joe Rutherford's years of adultery. No problem. Ewart Chitty's and Leo Greenlees' homosexuality. No problem. Chuck Russell's and Nathan Knorr's celibate marriages. No problem. The Governing Body giving autographs to their worshippers. No problem. The Governing Body forcing little girls to face their rapists in Judicial Hearings, yet that same Governing Body was too cowardly to face THEIR accusers when confroted with their coverups of pedophilia. No problem.
No problem? Baloney. There is a really BIG problem here: the leaders of this religion are so corrupt, so evil, so self-obsessed, so hypocritcal and so "demonized" that they are beyond redemption.
How anyone can think that they do or ever did represent the "True" God, much less exclusively represent the "True" God is beyond reason and certainly beyond belief for any sane person.
Farkel
...OUTLAW