In the book Atonement I found this. "christian people are becoming more and more awake to the fact that a great tidal wave of unbelief is sweeping over Christendom. Not the blasphemous kind voiced by Thomas Paine and Robert Ingersoll, but the cultured kind represented in the scholarship of our day with makes the danger all the more insidious. Not only are the great Colleges and Seminaries undermining the faith of the better educated but the common school books especially those used in the high schools are similarly inculcating a distrust in the bible." This was 1916 so the anti education has been going on for a long time.
Found this in the studies in the scriptures
by Tobyjones262 5 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Tobyjones262
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steve2
Yes, back in the day when things were...bad.
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nowwhat?
In light of this , surely the time for God to act is NOW!
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steve2
Now is not the time to talk about how often over the last 140 years they've said the time is now.
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blondie
That's right, steve2. What they say is "very soon now"
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/s/r1/lp-e?q=%22very+soon+now%22&p=sen&r=newest
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Tobyjones262
My dad used to say that about the truth. He would use the movie phrase in Romancing the stone or Jewl of the nile where MD is leaving Danny Devito and he says you are coming back for me right? when Soon how soon very soon.