A few years back, the Society told congregation
secretaries to gather up copies of individual letters
and put them in a binder. They presented a long list
of what letters were necessary and elders went about
trading xeroxed copies for each others collections.
The letters dealt with child abuse, disfellowshipping,
immigration, all sorts of things pre-decided by the
Society. All the while I helped put the congregation's
collection together, I thought "these are the responsa,
the decisions of the holy rabbis, the theocratic
TALMUD!".
And it's a secret torah, available only to the elders,
not women or children -kept in the congregations file
by the secretary.
I used to wonder why the Watchtower went through a spate
of secondary articles about rabbinic Judaism, almost as if
they admired the stuff.
I stopped wondering after I put that long collection together.
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