YK,
While Jehovah's Witnesses like to think of ourselves as having a fine relationship with Jehovah because of our being in his clean organization, the fact of the matter is that it is not a clean organization. Like the grossly immoral cities of Sodom and Gomorrah that Jehovah incinerated in the days of Abraham, Jehovah's Witnesses are similarly plagued with all sorts of immorality.
Your analogy is a little flawed as God's angels urged Lot and his family to leave Sodom and physically pulled them from the city when they lingered, rather than allowing them to risk destruction by sky-fire. If Sodom, in your analogy represents the WTS in its present crisis, would not its adherents be better off leaving voluntarily before the angels have to drag them out physically?
Loyalty to the 'Organization' was something I once felt was essential in order to please God, but in order to be loyal to the Organisation one eventually has to compromise ones loyalty to God, or find more lateral ways of viewing things in order to try to come to terms with the WTS failings, as you have.
Best - HS
Edited by - hillary_step on 24 July 2002 10:20:34