african GB member,
First of all, your screen name is ridiculous. If you are not Sam Herd, your screen name is deceptive at least.
Next, let's consider your assertions, ALL of them:
:Lets admitt it guys, this org is the closest that anyone will ever get to the truth,
Do you mean to say that a 100% record of failed prophecy is the closest that anyone will ever get to the truth is the "closest anyone will ever get to the truth?" If so, then you have just given virtually every apocalyptic religion the same status as you claim for your religious masters.
:I am not saying they are perfect, but maybe they just need a few modifications to some of their doctrines.
Yeah. Like getting at least ONE of them right the first time?
:After all they are not that bad.
Oh, no. They really are THAT bad. In fact they are evil bad.
:They don't execute people.
Not directly. But Freddie Franz lamented the fact they couldn't do it, only being constrained by current laws in civilized countries. Want references?
:They promote unity and peace among people.
No. They promote conformity. Unity is voluntary. Conformity is manditory. The WTS promotes conformity. Or else.
:They encourage people to live good purposeful lives.
What purpose to they encourage? Selling their books, reporting your time in their servitude, reporting others who "sin", attending their propaganda sessions and reading thier propaganda. Hardly a definition of "encouragement", let alone "purposeful lives." A better definitition would be "Watchtower lives". Of bondage. Of servitude to a religious Corporation that just can't seem to get its predictions right.
:I believe Jehovah must really be a force behind these people, otherwise they would have given up by now.
Any Muslim would use the same argument. They just use a different Prophet and a different God. They are as wrong as you are.
:I think they will never stop operating (printing books and saving people's lives.
You mean all those books Russell wrote? Long out of print now and deemed "apostate." Or do you mean all those books Rutherford wrote? Long out of print now and deemed "apostate." Or do you mean all of those books Fred Franz wrote? Long out of print now and mostly deemed "apostate." Or at least, "old light."
And by the way, about "saving lives": how about the 20,000 lives that were needlessly lost because of their idiotic blood transfusion policy which is now nearly rescinded? Or the uncounted but huge number of lives that were wrecked because of their "alternative military service" laws which sent many young men needlessly to prison and which also wrecked my young life, which is now rescinded? Or their idiotic policy on organ transplants, which is also now rescinded?
But their "books" save lives! Until a year later when they are replaced by newer books which render the old books obsolete but they still save lives!
What rubbish! What part of "false religion" and a "snare and a racket" do you not understand?
Farkel
