The man who invented the religion known as "JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES," was Joseph Franklin Rutherford.
He is the same man who spread the message, "Religion is a Snare and a Racket."
That's right, RELIGION was the poison that caused the rot in the world.
Were Jehovah's Witnesses a "religion?" Hell no!
They called themselves the SOCIETY (aka: Watch Tower Bible and Tract SOCIETY.)
(Old Timers (like me) today, still refer to them that way.)
Oh-but wait!
Watch what happens . . .
Very soon, the Watch Tower's non-religion members found themselves trying to wiggle out of being drafted into the war.
Very soon, the Watch Tower Society needed to be recognized as Conscientious Objectors, and needed standing before the Courts of the land.
The Court would not recognize them--guess why?
They weren't a RELIGION and the exemptions under law were only for RELIGION.
Ha ha ha ha ha. Shot themselves in the foot!
So, what did Rutherford do?
He set his legal expertise on pleading before the Court TO BE RECOGNIZED as a RELIGION!
Game Change!
The fight was no longer between the Witnesses and Religion; it was between TRUE Relgion and FALSE Religion.
A simple grammatical shift solved the problem. (It also made Rutherford's "Religion is a snare and a Racket" very embarrassing!
Becoming a religion also meant Rutherford's financial dealings could be cloaked in secrecy and exempt from TAXES. Why?
Religion is tax exempt and no public accounting and disclosure is required.
Where in all of this was the TRUTH?
Why create a slogan and use it taunt people and label them as defective and false(Religion is a snare and a racket) only to suddenly change
and BECOME the same as they are?
The reason is simple: there is no core of integrity to the leaders of the Watch Tower religion.
INTEGRITY MEANS: what you say, what you think and what you do are all the same without dissonance.
Men like Rutherford aren't like that. They have no genuine integrity. They move about and maneuver according to sudden whim.
Arbitrary, capricious and wilfull people are blown about by whatever is happening "now." They are rootless and easily shifted in opinion and action.
TRUTH is more solid than that.
I've detailed this and a great many other deceitful shifts in my book, "I Wept by the Rivers of Babylon" available on Amazon.com or Lulu.com.
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