Here is one example I recall from reading the book, and I still shudder when I think about it. This is about a young boy who came to Dr. Peck, the book's author and a psychiatrist, for treatment. Note that the evil doers in this example, acted innocently and just refused to "get it." The evil put upon this boy by his own parents is unthinkable. Even for me.
A boy about 13 started to fail in school after normally having a history of receiving good grades. He wouldn't tell the counselor anything, but the counselor could obviously could see the boy had some big problems. So the counselor went to the parents to find out why. The parents acted clueless and said nothing was wrong. It took months of persuasion before the parents were almost forced to send the boy in for counseling.
Dr. Peck worked with the child for months, but the child buttoned up like a clam and said nothing was wrong. Finally, the boy opened up, little by little.
Here's what had happened: the boy's brother committed suicide with his rifle some months back and the two boys were very close. Ok. That's bad enough. That Christmas, the parents gave the boy a RIFLE for Christmas. That's horrible. What's more horrible was the fact that the parents gave the boy the very rifle his brother had used to kill himself. That is beyond unthinkable.
When confronted, the parents acted surprised that there was any problem with what they had done. They said they didn't have much money to spend for Christmas and they thought that rifle would be a good gift. After all, they said, it was still in good condition.
THEY ACTED CLUELESS ABOUT THE TERRIBLE MESSAGE THEY WERE SENDING TO THEIR ONE-SURVIVING SON. They never did get or acknowledge the evil the put upon their own son.
Dr. Peck said that after several years in therapy, he realized he could never help the boy back to normalcy, and the last time he checked, the boy was still fucked up.
Use that story as an analogy to the Watchtower Corporation "killing" people while they are alive by shunning, literally killing people by an idiotic interpretation of scripture regarding blood, destroying families and marriages with their self-righteous interpretation of what consenting married people can do, ruining other lives (like mine) by making them be convicted of crimes and serve prison time for not serving in the military, dashing hopes of getting married at all, let alone raising a family because of their moronic apocalyptic fantasies, destroying people's financial future by forbidding them to better themselves through education, encouraging them to hand over their hard-earned assets to the Corporation (like real estate) and sucking precious time that could be better spent by making people attending their propaganda meetings and selling their propaganda door-to-door. At times, they change these polices, but NEVER apologize and NEVER admit they did anything wrong.
And that doesn't even count the several times where they blamed their membership for giving up everything to pursue Watchtower interests because of a date prediction THEY MADE THEMSELVES that is "not months away, but weeks or days" away.
They are literally, People of the Lie.
How tragic.
Farkel
