Interesting quote in the July 8th Awake

by ignored_one 8 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  ignored_one

  This was taken from the main article "Why So Many Violent Crimes Now?"
  

  Hate Groups and Cults

  Evidence suggests that some hate groups or cults have been a strong influence in the commission of certain crimes. In Indiana, U.S.A., a 19-year-old black man was walking home from a shopping mall. Moments later, he was lying on the side of the street with a bullet in his brain. He had been shot by a young man who picked him at random. Why? The assassin allegedly wanted to gain membership in a white-supremacist organization and to earn a spiderweb tattoo fo having killed a black person.

  The 1995 nerve-gas attack in a Tokyo subway; the Jonestown, Guyana, mass suicide; and the deaths in Switzerland, Canada and France of 69 members of the Order of the Solar Temple were all cult inspired. These examples illustrate the powerful influence that certain groups have had on the thinking of some people. Charismatic leaders have got people to do the "unthinkable" by tempting them with some benefit.

  Such as "don't take blood and you'll be resurrected in paradise" or "shun your family and you'll get everlasting life".?

  Thoughts?

  Ignored One of the "trying to post other than fluff" class.
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  searchfothetruth

  The only problem with linking the JW's to this article is that they have NO charismatic leaders!

  By the way, your the spitting image of Bill Bailey.
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  ignored_one

  The only problem with linking the JW's to this article is that they have NO charismatic leaders!

  Your right about lacking charismal. JWs still fawn over them though.

  And yes, I do look a lot like Bill Bailey.

  Ignored One.
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  ESTEE

  How many "silent" crimes are the direct result of protecting pedophiles???

  ESTEE
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  VM44

  Long ago, this man was the charismatic leader of the JWs!

  Doesn't he just inspire awe?

  --VM44
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  cruzanheart

  Actually, your quote reminds me of the letter Inky's son wrote to her. Rejecting his mother like that is certainly an unthinkable crime.

  Nina (still upset about that letter)
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  rocketman

  Of course, in their view, this stuff all applies elsewhere, and not to themselves. A case certainly could be made that they hold a very strong influence over people's thought processes. Many of us are living testimony to that.
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  Shakita

  Another example of "the pot calling the kettle black."

  "If commitment to One God makes groups militant in their efforts to overcome faiths, it makes them equally militant to retain their faith when they are a minority." I wish I remembered where I found this quote, it is so appropriate to the witness mindset....MILITANT.

  A great deal of history, most of it bloody, has been made on behalf of a "one true god".... to single out this generation as more violent than previous ones, is very narrowminded. As long as their are people on the earth, there will be violence. The difference between a thousand years ago and today is the size and scope of that voilence.

  This is just another attempt to keep the rank and file out there pushing God's "imaginary products" of "wish fulfillment".

  Mrs. Shakita
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  Wolfgirl

  Charismatic leaders?! Hahahahahaha!

  By the way, I love Bill Bailey. He's the main reason I love watching Buzzcocks.