I would like to collect as many instances of Watchtower dishonesty and pretense as possible. Here is one from a Bulgarian as an example of what I'm looking for.
Are Jehovah's Witnesses disfellowshipped for receiving blood in a hospital?
Helge Fauskanger writes: "If Witnesses can’t convince the elders that they are utterly “repentant” for this vampiric lapse of theirs, they will be held to have disassociated themselves from the religion — even if they never said a word about wanting to leave it! Years ago, the Watchtower was seeking official recognition in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian authorities were however troubled by the fact that Witnesses would disfellowship (excommunicate and shun) people for accepting blood transfusions.
No problem! One day the Bulgarian authorities received word that Watchtower had changed its policy. No longer would anyone be disfellowshipped for accepting blood. Hurray! And so the religion gained official recognition in Bulgaria.
It was just an unworthy play on words! The Watchtower Governing Body simply decided that if someone unrepentantly accepts blood, that one would henceforth be considered as having disassociated him- or herself from the faith.
Exactly the same words are read to the congregation: “So-and-so is no longer one of Jehovah’s Witnesses”, which, of course, results in exactly the same treatment: shunning.
It is one of the tactics Watchtower has used that can only severely undermine one’s respect for the basic integrity of this religion. The Bulgarian authorities were essentially duped into giving them official recognition, by a “change of policy” that was, as noted, mere wordplay.”