Recently, I had to help my mom move from NY...she has just retired and has been a witness for over 30 years. I wouldn't call her devout in that she never misses field service or that she would walk through horrible weather to get to a meeting but she is devout in a sense that she will believe whatever the WTS puts before her...
Anyway, my two older brothers who are also "in the truth" were helping go through what stuff we were going to move when we came to her literature stash. My mom is an extreme packrat and we had been throwing so many items that she had bought over the years without even opening the boxes (the items got old & musty so they were unusable to others ) and the literature was just so many extra copies of Awakes, Watchtowers, & books that were never placed or from when us kids were studying while growing up. Going with the flow, I was about to just chuck the extra items because no one was obviously going to ever use them but my brothers became defensive about making sure that no literature was destroyed!
It is so ridiculous to me how reverent some people become of the literature made by the WTS. I am not insulting current witness or making this a case of "they are so stupid" because I probably would of done the same thing just a year ago...it just amazes me that the WTS has such a strong mental hold on people. It is to the point that people feel intense guilt for just ridding themselves of extra useless literature...