DATA-DOG,
I felt the same way when attending meetings. Sometimes I would imagine what would happen if the Society just went away and they adapted the Christian Freedom that mainline denominations have. Imagine all their energy at helping their neighbors and not trying to foist magazines on them.
Of course, sometimes the comments from some of them amounted to hate speech, the condemnation of outsiders and former members. The “Of course, we can’t stone people today, but we can certainly kill our association with them.”
They don’t realize that we don’t hate them, we love them. Those feelings are not mutual.