*cough* ............Randy..............under "Members" listing..........you have now started "666" threads.
A coincidence? I'll leave that up to my JW Elder brother-in-law's interpretation of the scriptures.
As for Rutherford and his Cadillacs - it was posted by Randy that he had two of them, one in New York and one at Beth Sarim.
No, there's nothing wrong with having a big ol' Cadillac when the vast majority of your followers are squat broke.
No, there's nothing wrong with having a big ol' cigar hanging out of your mouth in a lot of the pictures showing the President of the God's Only Channel to Mankind.
No, there's nothing wrong with bootlegging whiskey into America during the Prohibition......well, actually, that was against the law, eh?
My point being.....as we were taught - "Many things are lawful according to the Scriptures. But are they upbuilding to our brothers and sisters?" How many times were there articles in the WT & Awake saying that even IF we had the money - to buy clothes, homes, cars, etc., with modesty in mind - so that we might not offend our brothers who don't have the money that we might have.
As JW's - we followed the lead in the WT in looking down our noses at preachers who wore diamonds and drove the long black Cadillacs - "OUR elders certainly were shepherds....not sheep shearers, eh?" We also held in disdain the Catholic Church Bishops, Cardinals, Pope....because of the flaunting of wealth by them. "We are ALL brothers."
Well, the WTBTS is probably no better - no worse than any other religion. But as a JW - that's saying a hell of a lot. We were taught we were The Best - The Only Truth Faith - and all other religions were Fathered By Satan.
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