The following is a crosspost from ChannelC discussions at:
http://www.channelc.org/cgi-bin/eboard30/index2.cgi?frames=yes&board=Main&mode=Current&message=27557
Download the PDF and read through it. It's an amazing read.
--ILOOWY
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Posted by MShilmer on Fri - Oct 24 - 07:15am:
Watchtower Presidents Pledged Allegiance to the United States of America
Historians and sociologists will have to recalibrate conclusions about
Jehovah’s Witnesses regarding pledging allegiance to national governments
based on newly revealed documents demonstrating that during a period when
children of Jehovah’s Witnesses were facing down horrendous persecution for
refusing to pledge allegiance to the United States the very leaders encouraging
this stance were, themselves, pledging allegiance to the United States.
Witnesses have won substantial monetary awards in civil lawsuits stemming
from their refusal to sign oaths of allegiance on the basis that their religion
forbids doing so. Defendants paid these penalties and costs of litigation when,
as it turns out, Presidents of the Watchtower organization were pledging the exact
oath language these plaintiffs successfully sued over.
A fully referenced review of information disclosing the above,
and more, is available online at:
Marvin Shilmer