When I was a kid growing up are family had to drive 5 miles down a major street in are town to get to the Kingdom Hall
that we were suppose to attend, during this drive I always noticed the other churches on both sides of the street,
even watching people enter their perspective church on Sunday morning. The biggest Catholic church in town was actually
right across the street from are Kingdom Hall. Through most of my childhood I found it secure and comforting that I
wasn't going to be destroyed because I was in the one and only true religion out of all of them and I actually felt sad
for those people that were not JWS, particular my school chums I played with at school. Then a couple of years after 1975
a well liked and respected elder talked to me about his experience at working at Bethel headquarters and within that conversation
he stated that he now thinks the organization is just a publishing company. Well the bells in my head really started to go off,
could this be true ? Well I set my mind into analytical mode and started to scrutinize things a little more, still went out in service
and gave the odd talk when requested. In my mind I kept on asking myself was the WTS intensionally exploiting the bible to sell
literature, falsely proclaiming themselves as god's divinely chosen ones and on a self accentuated project to obtain power and money.
Unfortunately and sadly I came to the conclusion that the answer to this was yes.
Now after 30 years and in reflection I see that all religions lie to some degree or another and the JWS do not hold exclusivity
in this alone and thats why after my experience with the WTS., I enjoy living a lie-less life as an atheist/humanist.
