by Anony Mous 11 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Juneteenth may not be religious but it is more political. From what I read it celebrates black people’s freedom from slavery. Witnesses are supposed to be “ no part of the world” and as such they would leave such “worldly” causes alone . The correct thing , in their view, would be to direct attention to the Kingdom to make all men equal.
It is my guess that if the “patriarch” elder knew of this he would stop it.
@BluesBrother: that was back in the day. Obama broke a lot of JW, as he was hyped up to be the savior of the black community.
I remember there being talks with not so subtle hints about not putting your trust in men or participating in elections regardless of how historic they may be at the conventions and meetings before the election.
But they let it slide, because drawing attention to disfellowshipping an Obama voter would be media suicide. And that just opened the floodgates, it gave permission for a whole host of political activity and obviously has permeated throughout the leadership, 12 years later they were actively promoting the COVID shot and whereas during various global issues (protests, wars) they usually came out with some article it very obviously references, they haven’t done that recently.
