July 15th, 2010 WT, page 4, paragraph 9:
"During Jehovah's day, those who have been molded by the world and its evil spirit will display their true nature, even slaughtering one another. In fact, it could well be that the numerous forms of violent entertainment popular today are conditioning the minds of many for the time when each man's hand "will actually come up against the hand of his companion." (Zech. 14:13) How important, then, that we reject anything--movies, books, video games and so on--that may engender within us traits that are detestable to God, such as pride and the love of violence! (2 Sam. 22:28; Ps. 11:5) Rather, let us cultivate the fruitage of God's holy spirit, for such qualities will prove to be incombustible when the figurative heat is on."
(bold print mine--I love when they say 'cultivate', because they put the 'cult' in 'cultivate'.)
So...if you saw Avatar, or will see Iron Man 2 or whatever action film is out there, you're getting primed up for slaughtering your neighbors and family at Armageddon! That's out there even for the Society. Or is it, I don't know.
I always thought the whole 'everybody killing everybody' thing was supposed to be some kind of divinely induced, rabies-like madness that would envelop all non-JWs, causing them to randomly kill each other. Even in the worst war zones, ordinary non-JWs do not just start killing everybody they see when "the figurative heat is on". How is it that Jehovah's Witnesses can go out and preach to people if they view non-Witnesses in such a perverse light?
We may also add that My Book of Bible Stories (and indeed, the Bible itself) had plenty of blood and gore (see the awesome leavingwt's top 50 divinely inspired killings for a mostly accurate summary), with graphically violent pictures to match (someone call the Comics Code Authority!), and they read it to their children, even reenacting some of the violent scenes. With their children. How is that materially different from watching a violent movie?
Here's an interesting news clipping a co-worker shared with me from the morning's Examiner--it's a free newspaper offered in my area--under the section "Stupid Crimes". Under the section "Clash of the Titans", it reads:
"An epic battle of one faith against another broke out in Texas after Jehovah's Witnesses walked into a Spanish-speaking Catholic church in Fort Worth. The priest tried to escort the intruders who were disturbing his Mass. One intruder said, "This place is teaching lies and I am here to bring you the truth." One Jehovah's Witness knocked the Bible from the priest's hands. So the priest punched him in the face. The police are investigating the altercation."
Can anyone in Texas verify if you've heard of this? Obviously, the JWs were wrong if indeed they interrupted another religion's worship services, as is reported here. They clearly started the trouble by doing so, and by knocking the Bible out of someone's hands--which is a lot like they do to their own people, actually, especially when the Bible proves them wrong. But the priest was clearly wrong for punching the guy in the face, if indeed he did so. The heat was on, and Jehovah's Witnesses needlessly provoked this priest and interfered with his right to conduct worship services in a peaceful, orderly manner. (If this happened in a KH, it would be "persecution", of course.) Seems to me that the spirit of the world isn't all that far from the organization, after all.
Or did that JW just watch too much Avatar?
Here's to you, people I will be slaughtering any day now. Murderous rage is building up inside as we speak... It's only a matter of time...
