Just Seen this Rutherford Quote on Facebook

by cantleave 19 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  blondie

  Reading the Children's book I saw that the message is that the great multitude should put off marriage until after Armageddon. Rutherford felt that the "end" would come in the early 1940's. This statement was meant to be reassuring the GM to wait till then. It wasn't until the mid 1950's that Bethelites could marry. The negative attitude toward women was evident that while the TMS started in 1943 for men, it wasn't until the late 50's that women were included.

  "Receiving the gift, the marching children clasped it to them, not a toy or plaything for idle pleasure, but the Lord's provided instrument for most effective work in the remaining months before Armageddon." Watchtower 1941 September 15 p.288
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  VM44

  Hear for yourself Judge Rutherford saying the following:

  1) that a woman was nothing more than "a rag and a bone and a hank of hair."

  2) "God says, 'Quit making jackasses of yourselves.'"

  3) "Armeggedon is near at hand."

  4) "Do not send your children to those devilish movies to learn evil."

  MP3 audio available at:

  Children of the King by Judge Rutherford

  Audio lecture "Children of the King" by Judge J.F. Rutherford. Given in 1941 at a convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in St. Louis, Missouri. Includes release of the book "Children," authored by Rutherford. Rutherford was president of the Watchtower Society.

  http://www.archive.org/details/ChildrenOfTheKingByJudgeRutherford

  How in the world did Rutherford get away with saying the word "jackasses" during a public talk?

  From the "Children of the King" audio.
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  VM44

  "...but the Lord's provided instrument..."

  The Lord didn't have a thing to do with the Children book!
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  VM44

  "' ... It is your privilege between now and before the day school opens to spend six hours a day in taking the book Children to others.' The parents should encourage their children to do this very thing, if they would have them live."

  That is one of the most presumptuous, arrogant and conceited things I have ever seen published in The Watchtower.

  Literally, The Watchtower was telling the people that a provision from Judge Rutherford was the same as a provision from Jehovah God himself!
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  AnnOMaly

  I don't understand why there was any need to threaten the poor little scamps. Couldn't the parents have bribed them with ... Twinkies or unlimited ice cream or whatever ... like JW parents do nowadays?

  Then again, for six hours a day, anything to make it worthwhile for the kids would bankrupt the parents. They'd have to put the fear of God into them instead. There. I think I've answered my own question. ...
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  rocketman

  "Just seen"? Seriously?

  I just saw.

  C'mon man!!
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  Chariklo

  Reading the Children's book I saw that the message is that the great multitude should put off marriage until after Armageddon.

  And the sad thing is that even now there are beautiful young JW pioneer sisters who have done that. I know at least one of them.
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  AnnOMaly

  It was 'evidently' short for "I have just seen ... "
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  St George of England

  The quote is from 1941. This is a year before Rutherford died. Rutherford's wife was, I believe, very ill and paralyzed.

  She still lived for more than 20 years, she died 17 Dec 1962.

  I always wondered if her 'illness' was just an excuse for his philandering

  George
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  cantleave

  Rocket man - yes you are right!! My grammar is can be justifiably be criticised on this occasion. But do I give a shit? No!