Excellent points Terry!!!
Hate is a well used vehicle for the WTS. Norm had some good points about 11 years ago with his commentary thread on Sept 8, 1997's Awake http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/11630/1/Why-so-much-hate
I agree with Finkelstein too on 'hating kids'.....when we moved to where the need was greater that congregation hated the children who attended as a group.....we kids were proof the end was nigh (2 Tim 3:2) and made to feel like worthless burdens. Children hindered greater FS, were annoyances at the Hall expected to be seen but never heard. ......not even elderkids were immune.
Yes, I will admit there are a lot of kind and gentle congregations (I originally came from one) but even they as Finkelstein mentions harmed kids by expecting us to live up to the overbearing regulations of the WTS.......childhood joy is restricted to theocratic endeavors only.....any displays of talent beyond theocratic endeavors are vain and selfish. ......at best we were like the soap children in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (BTW I wasn't allowed to read fiction books beyond ones assigned)