I stayed at my parents this weekend, as I was over in the UK seeing my kids and rather than stay in Exteer as I normally do I did a day return. Sunday morning over breakfast, before they went off to the meeting and I went back to Holland, my Dad mentioned the WT article.
Apparently it was about Loy, and how about the new light is that, rather than being a sick sick man who wanted to give his virgin daughters to a gay rape gang (I always did wonder about that one... daughters.... gay rape gang), he was simply playing for time and waiting for god to do something.
I find it hard to believe that even the Watchtower would be quite so stupid, but there you go.
Funny thing was my parents reaction when I responded. I was a bit offended by the twaddle but thought I'd go in sideways rather than with my arms swinging, so I said "I think it is very unwise for us today to interpret the actions of a bronze-age pastoralist". I was going to have fun with the god-ordained slaughter of everyone but virgin girls and maybe even with the hospitality rules of the Inuit who considered it poliute to lend the wife to visitors, but apparently 'bronze-age pastoralist' is unswallowable by Dubbies.
"We don't know that's what he was" was my Mum's reply. Well, given an assumption he lived when the text suggests he did, yes we bloody do.
The conversation didn't really go anywhere after that...