Isn’t the Watchtower Society Valuable Because It Gets People Talking About Important Issues in Our World?
No.
Hell no!
This argument presupposes that Jehovah’s Witnesses are ethically neutral–that if the core doctrine (The Truth) is not true, its untruth is harmless, but if (by wild coincidence) the Governing Body of this Organization happen to aim a wayward arrow at some real-world issue that needs addressing, The Watchtower is a net positive because it directed, at least, some energy toward addressing essential issues of life. That’s not the case because the great deal of damage that its untrue and disingenuous depictions of societal issues cause far outweighs any marginal benefit this religion’s indoctrination might have by “accidentally” aiming at a valid target.
Let me give you an example.
Conspiracy Theorists endeavor to change issue-sensitive people into activists working toward make-believe solutions to life’s problems. The Jehovah’s Witnesses door to door activism requires reeducating curious persons to somehow realize that everything they’ve ever heard is a falsehood and that competing religions have misled them. If they’re already interested in working toward moral and ethical life solutions, it’s likely whatever stimulus sets them on a more productive path could have interested them in mainstream real-world solutions at the get-go, which means the fact that Jehovah’s Witness propaganda turned them on to Governing Body reliance is totally irrelevant.
In fact, JW Bible studies in this example have been counterproductive, because it wasted the would-be activist’s (and society’s) time by encouraging naïve interested people to tilt uselessly at the windmills of imaginary “divine” intervention.
This is not a net positive.
The issues Jehovah’s Witness leadership cares most passionately about are loyalty to the Governing Body and their churning and fanciful conspiracy theories. Consequently, what little “activism” it can hope to ignite will almost invariably be directed at rooting out potential enemies to the cause, especially within their own ranks. That is not a net good for society. It’s a net negative because conspiracy thinking is part of the problem and is not a solution to anything.
In the final analysis, the only thing ever produced by The Watchtower and its leaders is a dysfunctional, depressed, paranoid social movement of coerced mind-control puppets, transfixed on saving their collective asses from destruction by their imaginary tribal God, Jehovah. They trust nobody but the Governing Body leaders. The net result is a weird social movement of self-conscious elitists with a hive mentality who are absolutely committed to weeding out who will live and die.
This summary judgment is based entirely on each person’s embrace or rejection of feckless magazine articles spewed out in a never-ending fable of contradictory nonsense.
To be a Jehovah’s Witness is to be nothing less than a Conspiracy Theorist hell bent on spreading their viral infection to the farthest reaches of the Earth.