Scholar,
The "Society" must come clean. It preys on gullible people who have trusted it. The 1914 issue has become a moot point. If you are truly a researcher you would find out that 1914 was the date predicted to end the world. It was then changed to other dates. Thanks to their brainwashing people still do not see them as the false prophets they are, and you are helping them. The latest one published for years was "the generation of 1914". It did not come true. If it was truly Christian (I am an agnostic) they would have known that Jesus would come as a thief, and Jesus did not know the date" If they were truly honest, they would end their prayers: "In the name of Jehovah and the Watchtower" since they have supplanted Jesus.
The Watchtower has caused a lot of physical, mental, and economical damage. The breakdown of families and the individual are its fruits but the individual cannot see this because of their shunning policy and lies.
Their stand against vaccines, blood, and organ transplants comes to mind. Their being against psychiatry, and mistrust of "wordly people" did and does not help the individual, only their individual mind control by the ?Society? prevents them to see that there are more or at least as many good people in the world as they are.
See their past history in http://quotes.jehovahswitnesses.com/ . Quotes about their scientific stands and constant changes in doctrine. Pretty poor for a supposed ?god inspired? religion.
Under Medical-Miscellaneous http://quotes.jehovahswitnesses.com/medical-miscellaneous.htm you will find the following:
*** The Golden Age, Oct. 25, 1933, p. 57 *** [Note: not available on 1993/1995/1999 CD-ROM] ...Enfeebled constitutions, inherited from fashionable mothers, cannot stand up under tobacco...
also http://quotes.jehovahswitnesses.com/vaccination.htm
*** The Golden Age, Jan. 16, 1924, p. 250 *** [Note: not available on 1993/1995/1999 CD-ROM] It has never been proven that a single disease is due to germs.
Under Vaccination
*** The Golden Age, Feb 4 1931 pp. 293, 294, 297 The Sacredness of Human Blood (Reasons why vaccination is unscriptural) *** [Note: not available on 1993/1995/1999 CD-ROM] ...the vaccination law reduces the father and mother to mere slavery, almost as bad as the colored people were in, when their children were put up on the block and sold. In many slave-sale cases the mother and father were even forbidden to shed tears. Vaccination is a direct violation of the everlasting covenant that God made with Noah after the flood. [?] Vaccination has never saved a human life. It does not prevent smallpox.
Research this site, and if after this you conclude that this is a god inspired religion, I will lose all respect for you.
I left a superior religion, Catholicism, because they changed a law allowing people to eat meat on most fridays. Had I had a computer and known about this site, I would've never joined the Borg.