What kind of problems characterize today's world? first, hateful division - in which anyone who doesn't belong to your particular nation/tribe/sect/gender preference/sub-culture is denigrated and somehow, inferior to you.
Next, how about deception? Is that rife in the world today?
And drug abuse? That's common today, isn't it?
Well, if you read the Awake magazine carefully, you might discern that Witnesses aren't different from the world. (May 2009 - the issue with the sneaky looking blond hottie on the cover).
On page 27, we find the experience of a brother who survived the horror of the killing fields in Cambodia. Along the way, he managed to get to a refugee camp where he was given a Bible and supplied with food, apparently for a year.. And how, with typical Witness gratitude does he refer to them?
As "Christians" - in quotation marks. ( also in " English speaking visitors I met in the refugee camp said they were Christians").
But wait! Aside from these so-called Christians, who took an interest in refugees amidst likely disease and horror ( unlike broke-a$$, donation-deficient, "leave-em-with-a-tract-and-move-along-Witnesses"), How else does the Watchtower use the word Christian?
Well, they use it as a code word to hide their own shortcomings - as on page 9. You see, when the Watchtower wants to trumpet it's "virtues", it offers an experience of a woman who broke free from drug dependency by studying with Jehovah's Witnesses. However, since drug dependency is a common problem among Jehovah's Witnesses, it just wouldn't "do" to clearly identify an Witness with this problem in a published experience , so she is simply identified as "a Christian".
How about that! You can visit a war-torn 3rd world area and hand out Bibles and food but only be a "Christian" (in quotes) in Watchtowerland, but be a Christian ( without quotation marks) even though you have been "addicted to prescription drugs for years" ( page 9)
Of course, we can only guess about drug addiction among Witnesses because the Watchtower Society has strongly discouraged Witnesses from answering surveys of any kind about the organization - in both the KM and a letter to elders. I guess they fear what modern statistical methods might expose about their "spiritual paradise" = especially since family breakdown is already epidemic among them.
Look, this is the simplest aspect of being in this miserable world. My religion/nation/group is better than yours and I will cover up whatever I have to so that it appears so! I'm a Muslim, you're an infidel. I'm a born-again and you're going to hell. I'm Jewish and you're goyim. I'm a Christian but you're only "Christian" (unless I need to use you as an unintended ally to fend off taxes in France - in which case I'll drop the quotation marks).
Division. Deception. Drugs.
Jehovah's Witnesses. No different from the world.
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