MadA,
I doubt that there is any xjw who is unappreciative of what RF has done thus far, but it is ridiculous to allow such appreciation to rise to a level of worship that would accept and justify the possibility that RF may die without disclosing all he knows about the WTS.
Whilst your ire is understood, your reasoning is not.
Where you see 'worship' others see a victim of the same mental conditioning that engulfed you as a JW and then move understand that issue. All of us will die at some stage never having declared all we know about many other equally important experiences in our lives.
My father for example was a sniper in WWII. He would not discuss one moment of his experiences with me and I only found out the horrors he endured and perpetuated from other members of his unit. Were he alive would you have him research the names of his victims, trace the members of the surviving families, make reparations to them for what he did to their fathers? Some dogs MadA, are best left sleeping in peace as once awake they can bite the wrong person in the wrong place.
As I have said before Ray Franz has on more than one occasion apologized publicly for the part he played in helping to develop the ideals of the WTS, ideals he now accepts harmed others.
He painstakingly researched and wrote two books that have provided thousands of persons with enough information to ensure that they completely understand the WTS and its modus operandi. He obviously thought long and hard about what he would included and what he would not and did this for good reason, least of all being the legal vagaries placed on all printed literature. He obviously only included what could be proved in the final event.
His wrtings have liberated many, not just from the chains of WTS thinking but from imprisonment to other ‘Organizations’. He was fortunate enough to be an accomplished writer, and had he not written these books all we would have had is third party statements of his experiences which would certainly not have the same affect on the reader.
Worship? Nonsense. Making excuses for the man? More nonsense. While a JW I met RF on a number of occasions as an acting member of the GB, my feelings toward him now are not very different. He is a decent enough fellow who spent too long trying to make sense of the senseless, but of course he has his failings. We have close friends in common, many of whom are still ‘inside’ and still sympathetic to his cause and in this way he left a ticking bomb behind him, but it seems to me MadA, that by your demands that he ‘do more’, you are the one that is elevating him beyond the human.
As far as most of us are concerned he has paid his debt in full, that some may feel that he did not pay enough interest on his loan is not particularly helpful.
Teejay, has encapsulated all the components of this issue very clearly and in a reasoned manner. Read his posts again - you will learn much from them.
Best regards -- HS