Dishonesty, Deceit, Denial, Falsification, and Rewriting History.
Cults are dishonest in many areas: they practice deceptive recruiting,
they are hypocritical,
they lie about the faults or shortcomings of the leader or leaders,
they lie about the real nature of the group,
they lie about the real goals and purposes of the group,
they lie about what they have done in the past,
and they lie about their finances.
The cult has no respect for the historical truth. Like a Communist country that changes the history books every time a new dictator takes over, evil cults revise their history whenever it suits them. The cult won't allow mere facts to hinder it in its pursuit of wealth and power.
A little closer to home, Jehovah's Witnesses will deny that they ever believed that Armageddon would come in 1975 — even those people who sold their homes or delayed getting medical treatment didn't ever believe it. They didn't gather on hilltops waiting for the Lord to come. It *did* *not* happen.
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q0.html#cq_guru_rightThe article also hypocritically mentions only the "truths" that Russell revealed, but does not mention all the false (according to WT) teachings he and the IBSA were promoting:
worship of Jesus
celebrating Christmas
using the Cross (in fact, it was featured prominently on the cover of the Watchtower magazine)
not neutral as to military service or secular affairs
celebrating birthdays
pyramidology
promoting false "end time" dates
promoting false "Christ's Second Coming" dates
etc., etc.
In fact, the WT admits that the Organization was so saturated with "Babylonish teachings" that it was necessary for Jesus to discipline Rutherford and others by having them thrown in prison, in order to "purify" them!
Of course, this "New Light" nonsense effectively scrubs those dark points from Watchtower history as inconsequential.
