The Watchtower's 'Catholic' Future

by metatron 3 Replies latest jw friends

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  metatron

  See

  http://news.yahoo.com/birth-control-debate-why-catholic-bishops-lost-grip-100500707.html

  So, the Bishops lost influence because they swept child sexual abuse under the carpet and insist on widely unpopular doctrines and practises. Sound familiar? Of course, none of this discreet disaffiliation stops people from identifying themselves as "Catholics" even though the definition gets wildly stretched. Go door to door on a Sunday and discover how many householders say, "I'm not interested, I'm Catholic" (and you're not at Mass?)

  Time to buy a vowel, Governing Body. This is your emerging future - Witnesses who do or believe whatever in private but who quickly call themselves, "Jehovah's Witnesses". Having a Watchtower Code of "Omerta" on child abuse hasn't helped either.

  metatron
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  designs

  'Omerta' classic.
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  Knowsnothing

  I think this is applicable too. From jwfacts.

  "The endeavor to compel all men to think alike on all subjects, culminated in the great apostasy; The union of the early church, based upon the simple gospel and bound only by love, gave place to the bondage of the Church of Rome(Watchtower)a slavery of God's children, from the degradation of which multitudes are still weak and suffering" Zion's Watch Tower 1893 Sep p.264

  In The Myth of Certainty: The Reflective Christian & the Risk of Commitment (InteVarsity Press, 1986, 1992) pp.29-30 Professor Daniel Taylor warns:

  "The primary goal of all institutions and subcultures is self-preservation. Preserving the faith is central to God's plan for human history; preserving particular religious institutions is not. Do not expect those who run the institutions to be sensitive to the difference. God needs no particular person, church, denomination, creed or organization to accomplish his purpose "
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  Disillusioned Lost-Lamb

  Yep, God said he needs no house or place made by human hands. If the GB follow the Bible, why do they feel the need to build God a place (earthly organization); if man dominates man to his injury, then why a ruling class (144,000 & GB)?

  The fact is the Bible states God and Jesus are the ONLY one's who have the authority to tell man what to do, and they do not need a "house" or organization to do anything for them. These two simple points expose WTBT$ as a sham and explain why they are having the same troubles as every other religion out there. It also explains why they’re so desperately trying to cover it up.