You're welcome, and good point quellycat.
Even Jehovah was willing to hear Satan's arguments. The JW's teach that there is a great universal legal court case being conducted about 'the issue of universal sovereignty' with thousands of years needed for the evidence to pile up one way or the other. They use this very analogy in the Creation book.
And Jesus was prepared to hear and refute the Pharisees, he didn't put his fingers in his ear and go 'la-la-la'.
The problem is JW's believe that their organisational 'unity' is more important than anything else. Avoiding doctrinal division is more important than freedom of conscience to not accept doctrinal error. This was admitted by the Watchtower leadership in a Scottish Court case in the 1950's. Read the best bits of the transcript here and the summary at the end:
http://gwest59.tripod.com/ChristIsLord/id26.html
To recap, Haydon C. Covington basically said that the Watchtower Society views unity as more important than even doctrinal truth, and that this desire for unity may even result in a forced acceptance of false prophecy. Fred Franz's testimony confirmed this, and further showed that, while the Society makes a show of encouraging people to examine its doctrines in light of the scriptures "to see whether these things are so" (Acts 17:10,11), it does not allow its members to freely act upon the results of that examination if the Society's claims are found wanting. Since the Society will never admit to members that it is wrong right now, it does not truly allow them to examine its doctrines to see "whether these things were so," but in practice requires them to examine the scriptures to confirm that these things are so, and to "readjust" their thinking if they are unable to do that. In other words, no matter what an individual finds, he is obligated to believe whatever the Society teaches at that moment. At least, he is obligated not to publicly or privately disagree with the Society, and so if he really cannot bring himself to accept some doctrine, he must pretend to accept it, and live a lie in order to remain in good standing. Since Psalm 51:6 says of Jehovah, "you have taken delight in truthfulness itself in the inward parts," and the Bible says that Jehovah is a God of truth, this attitude would appear inconsistent with his will.
So, even though the Society states it is fallible and is not inspired, no member is allowed to act on this without serious consequences ranging from loss of congregational privileges to disfellowshipping. The Society wants every member to believe, as Covington testified, that any member who acts on the fact that Watchtower Society leaders are not infallible is worthy of death.
