Making Friends with Babylon the Great: Watchtower’s New Goal (page 3)

Scully

I wonder how much of this "change of heart" has to do with the lawsuits brought against governments who want to yank funding from the WTS based on its previous claims of exclusivity?

If they say that all religions are worthy of kindness and tolerance:

#1 - they probably get pinkie points from governments for not (openly) inciting hatred of other belief systems;
#2 - they make themselves look like decent human beings;
#3 - it may attract more people, and conversely, retain membership which has been hemorrhaging for the last couple of decades;
#4 - there is no incentive to Witness™ anymore (why bother? if they're all worthy of Jehovah's Kindness™, even Satanists deserve tolerance)

To me this all smells of trying to keep the governments from yanking per capita funding from their bleeding coffers.

LongHairGal

BLONDIE:

I had heard about similar elders meetings where there was conflict and one egotistical guy hated another!

Years ago an older sister told me that some elders are like ‘little Hitlers’ (her words) and will not tolerate anybody disagreeing with them. She then gave the ‘imperfect men’ excuse that they all love to do.

raymond frantz

Blondie

I was concentrating on their softening their stance towards people of other faiths which has been a common theme since their recent annual meeting talk about Babylon the Great👍

raymond frantz

Vidiot

As always you're right, I overestimate their capacity to deceive 😃

Vidiot

That’s OK.

I often overestimate my ability to convince.

🤪

blondie

Vidiot, humility teaches us all about the kind of people there are out there.

no-zombie

While I applaud the wishful thinking of others, I do belief that many read into Watchtower articles too deeply, to see in effect what they want to see.

For example, hoping that Governments will see a softening of this or that teaching, is just not going to work, as the Australian Royal Commission proved. Meaning that, unless something is clearly stated in (or removed from) the KS book (yeh I do know that it's now called the Shepherd the Flock Book) it will not be admissible in court or taken as a serious doctrinal redirection.

Thus until that publication removes the Interfaith paragraph from the section dealing with Apostasy, as a disfellowshiping matter ... it is pointless to get overly excited about this thread.

Sorry.

Sea Breeze

Thus until that publication removes the Interfaith paragraph from the section dealing with Apostasy, as a disfellowshiping matter ... it is pointless to get overly excited about this thread.

Exactly. We are talking about freedom of religion. During the Catholic Inquisitions which lasted 6 centuries, not one of 80 Popes in a row declined to speak against the institution of the Inquisition.... which is all the JW judicial committiees are. Instead of actual torture that resulted in murder, the JW Inquisition flies under modern countries radar with social murder... shunning.

A former Catholic Priest explains:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE_kl620IOE&ab_channel=borhany1979

From 1206 to 1805 fifty million people died.

Making Friends with Babylon the Great: Watchtower’s New Goal

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