My JW Wife wants me to tape Dateline for her and she thinks it's all her idea!
Wow I can’t believe it. I told my dyed-in-the-wool dub wife that there was an elder, the congregation PO in another state, that stood up for the right thing and resigned over a child being molested, and that the story will be covered on Dateline. Somehow she now has it in her little head that this program will be very pro-JW as it shows a God-fearing man, standing up for what is right. She is correct, he does stand up for what is right, but what she doesn’t understand, and I’m not about to tell her, is that the bad guys he is standing up to is the Watch Tower.
Tuesday is her meeting night, so she asked me to tape it for her. I told her, trying to sound almost reluctant, “OK I’ll try to remember to tape it when it comes on”. You see, now it is her idea. I will have two recorders running!
Wow, I believe this is the first time I have ever used theocratic-war-strategy. Tell me again why this is not deceptive lying. Oh yes, I did it for unselfish reasons, and it advances the cause of the kingdom, it does her no harm, and also she is not deserving of the truth. Now I remember.
Sure feels kind of sneaky, but if God’s mouthpiece says it is OK to do, then I guess it’s all right.
She may mention to the “friends” at the Hall that Dateline will be doing a JW story next week. I would love all of them to see it, but my fear is that they may denounce the show from the platform even before it airs. Then again, if they do, I can always ask her why the Watch Tower is afraid; does not their great and powerful God protect them etc.? What part of the show was not true? Why is there a discrepancy between what the Watch Tower PR guys say and what their own internal documents (Body Of Elders Letters) say? We will see what happens.
PS: If any terrorists are reading this, please don’t bomb anything until well after next Tuesday. Thanks
Freeman