This is well worth remembering

by The Quiet One 25 Replies latest social current

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  Listener

  This was a resolution made by JWs at assemblies around the world and published in the Watchtower 1963 10/15

  "This Resolution stressed that Jehovah’s witnesses recognize that the one true God is Jehovah, that the Bible is his written Word, that Jehovah God is the Sovereign of the Universe, that men and nations have set up the United Nations rather than surrender to the sovereignty of God’s Messianic Kingdom, and that though nations have given idolatrous worship to that political image, this Jehovah’s witnesses refuse to do. The Resolution showed that radical governments have been formed, but that “We, as witnesses of God, the Source of life, will maintain our Christian steadfastness and have no part in such radical movements, but will hold fast to our Christian neutrality toward all radical and other types of human government over earth.” It stressed that the nations are being led by invisible wicked spirits to Armageddon, but that “we will not march with them to Har–Magedon, for we refuse to fight against God Almighty and his kingdom.” Jehovah’s witnesses, it was resolved, will continue to declare to all the ‘everlasting good news’ concerning God’s Messianic Kingdom"

  They stated that they would have no part of it.
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  DATA-DOG

  Oubliette,

  The best, brief explanation to date! !!!!!!!!!

  SBF: I have never understood what the big deal is.

  The big deal is this: If YOU or I joined the YMCA to use their swimming pool, WE could be DF'd for apostasy. But when the WTBTS was a card-carrying NGO affiliate of the "scarlet colored wild beast" it was brushed off as no big deal because they claimed they needed to use the UN library, which, by the way, has been conclusively proven to be false.

  In joining the YMCA as a member a person accepts or endorses the general objectives and principles of the organization. ... Membership means that one has become an integral part of this organization founded with definite religious objectives, including the promotion of interfaith. Hence, for one of Jehovah's Witnesses to become a member of such a so-called Christian association would amount to apostasy." - Watchtower 1979 Jan 1 pp.30-31 Questions from Readers

  There's a term for this, it's called hypocrisy. Remember, this is the religion that loudly proclaims all other religions are false and only they have the truth. Also, for many decades they have condemned other religions for being NGOs of the UN.

  The WTBTS is the one that labelled the UN as the Scarlet Colored Beast, the "Disgusting thing standing in a place it ought not."

  

  We did not make this stuff up, the WT leaders did. They hypocritically broke their own rules, not just for a "quick swim" in a YMCA pool, but for a decade in the UN Library.

  While they have acknowledged their error and changed, they did it privately and failed to sanction themselves. If an elder in a local congregation did such a thing he would be deleted as an elder at the very least and possibly--maybe even probably--be disfellowshipped. Yet all of the GB members continued to maintain their positions as if nothing ever happened. Why is that?

  This is a textbook example of religious hypocrisy. Which is, by the way, one of the things that the WTBTS is always pointing to as proof that other religions are false. In reality, they are no different, they just pretend to be.

  Agains, it's called hypocrisy.

  Add to that the lies, cover-ups and failure to acknowledge error. For many of us it was and is a big deal, a very big deal.

  Here is a link to a great article on the subject from jwfacts.com:

  • Watchtower's United Nations Association

  BTT!!
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  jwfacts

  Freedom4all - that is a good find. I had not noticed it before. The page can still be seen archived on waybackmachine at

  http://web.archive.org/web/20090303200113/http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/materials/articles.htm
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  slimboyfat

  Very interesting indeed. It looks like good evidence they submitted positive articles about the UN for their approval.
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  Robert222

  The JWs will do anything to hang on to their religious status with the IRS. They will sleep with the devil if that's what it takes. I thought their using the library at the UN, or using any other worldly institution is OK because they are annointed, and we aren't. It isn't for the rank and file to understand or to question the GB or annointed or anything. You will be disfellowshipped for apostacy. The Society can do whatever they want. The end. It's all a joke. They are a corporation, a business.
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  Freedom4all

  And what do you think of the language used in that Awake article.

  A biblestudy is now called a "non-governemental education program" (page 11)

  (I hope I translate this correct....have only the Dutch copy)

  and on page 12 it is called a "basic course" that JW give...... and as a result people join a "worldwide peace corps".

  Now....why the change of language?

  Who had they in mind when they wrote this?

  What would the UN understand from this if this magazine was submitted?

  And how would the JW understand it?

  Both would read somthing else.

  Seems like carefully chosen words to please the UN while not upsetting JW.