Does it bother any JW apologists or lurking JWs that Charles Russell, Joseph Rutherford, and the Watchtower board members who backed them would all be disfellowshipped today for teaching what those men taught as truth?
Does it bother any of you that you would be disfellowshipped today for believing what their followers would have been disfellowshipped for NOT believing?
I use to think that too.
But, what gets you disfellowshipped is insubordination and nothing much else.
As long as the truth de jour is adhered to in ANY FORM (content is actually unimportant) you are flying above the weather.
The TRUTH isn't about facts anyway. It is about going along. Get along by going along.
Think of this analogy: a soldier follows orders. Tomorrow the new sergeant gives different orders but the soldier follows the new orders.
Orders are never "true" or "false" they are merely....required to be obyed.
Whoever is in charge of interpretation, in effect, gives the orders and everybody goes along.
Think of all that Fred Franz nonsense about nineteen seventy-five being the "End of six thousand years of human existence" whatever the hell that means. No matter how crazy, weird, goofy, or off the wall that interpretation sounded--EVERYBODY at Bethel went along with it and defended it and published it.
Think about that. It's like eating your own bowel movement.
From the top of the organization to the bottom they all go along to get along.
NEW LIGHT is the NEW ORDER which must be followed.