Matthew 7: 17-19: 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
Matthew 24:50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51 He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
THE GOVERNING BODY doesn't give a hoot in hell about your child dying in a hospital. The focus is on obeying their policy about blood.
The GOVERNING BODY doesn't shed a tear when a faithful old witness dies! They insist the funeral be turned into pep rally for the joys of promoting
Watchtower propaganda.
The GOVERNING BODY is cold as an arctic winter when it comes to young men going to prison rather than serving alternate community service in time of war. They will turn your sons into billboard martyrs like a cheap advertising stunt.
The GOVERNING BODY will crush you like a cigarette butt if you complain about child molesting or elder malfeasance or personal woes that get you on the wrong side of their absolute control over your life!
YOU MEAN NOTHING to them--but, by God--they better mean EVERTHING to you!
An ant colony has more compassion than a local Kingdom Hall.
The basic creature comfort and emotional needs of human beings seem to be of only a token concern.
If there really was the kind of LOVE described in the New Testament going on among Jehovah's Witnesseswouldn't you expect it to reflect a similar concern with widows, orphans, prisoners, the poor, etc.?
James 1:27
English Standard Version (ESV)
27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
The Watchtower Society was started as a business and not a charitable institution and nothing much has changed since 1879.
Pastor Russell had a personal fortune of about 10 million dollars. He lavished those funds--not on people--but own his own words in publishing
his own ideas.
And the crowds asked [John the Baptist], "What then should we do?" In reply he said to them, "Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none; and whoever has food must do likewise." (NRSV, Luke 3:10-11)
But whoever has the world's goods, and beholds his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? (NAS, 1 John 3:17)
He who gives to the poor will never want, but he who shuts his eyes will have many curses. (NAS, Proverbs 28:27)
Russell was a SUPERSTAR largely because he could afford to self-promote. He had newspaper columns, he made international trips to give speeches and sermons, he hired book salesmen to distribute door to door. Pastor Russell was the Donald Trump of End Times crackpots!
He never established a charity or social support system because he DIDN'T CARE about local congregations at all!
This attitude of emotional disconnect has carried through the 134 years since the Watchtower's origin.
Jehovah's Witnesses, let us face it, are COLD-BLOODED!
"This world is ending and you are going to die unless you see things our way!"
William Miller, the guy responsible for the GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT, was in love with his own ideas, too.
He misled thousands of gullible Christians into thinking Jesus would return in their own lifetime.
The ADVENTIST movement simply concerned itself with Dates, dates, dates, dates and not human needs.
Russell was a Nerd and rich boy who was like a self-published author who fancies himself a big shot.
Everything he stood for was off-center, contrarian and self-promoting. Most of all it was WRONG WRONG WRONG!
The way Judge Rutherford snatched up Russell's crumbs and turned them into a monstrous machine for his own ravings
tore bible students into shreds of humanity dizzy with confusion and anger.
PEOPLE'S NEEDS meant NOTHING to Rutherford!! In the now-famous Olin Moyle letter, Rutherford's temper, foul language, abusive harassment of subordinates and general demeanor describe a despot loose cannon, not a humble servant worthy of Jesus' only true kingdom interests.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/179663/1/The-Curious-Case-of-Olin-R-Moyle
The Watchtower leaders have been self-important, obsessed with crackpot ideas and hellbent on seeing the world end in flames.
MANIAC despots who order people to do as they are told HAVE NO LOVE for human beings or any motivation to ease their suffering.
The Watchtower Society is a business concerned with exploiting the best impulses of humble spritual people
and totally cold about tossing them aside when they've wrung every last drop of energy and money out of them.
They will secretly embrace an organization they call A HARLOT (the United Nations) quicker than they will lend a helping, compassionate hand
to a retiring Bethel worker ending a lifetime of backbreaking toil for slave wages!
it is worth repeating:
YOU MEAN NOTHING to them--but, by God--they better mean EVERTHING to you!