by peaceloveharmony 2 Replies latest jw friends
click here to read about Sai Baba
. http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/07/25/baba/index.html
and here to read readers comments
. http://www.salon.com/people/letters/2001/07/26/baba/index.html
"If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced?"
..........Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (1792-1822)
Here's one letter:
I'm sad that the only article that you've ever printed on Sai Baba -- a great spiritual teacher in India with millions of followers who has been a tremendous force for good -- has focused on slanderous accusations against him advanced by only a handful of people. Why not do some balanced reporting? There are thousands of stories of his benevolent, miraculous and progressive accomplishments.
Now let's change a few words around to make it familiar to those of us who have presented facts to JWs about the WTS:
I'm sad that the only article that you've ever printed on the WTS -- a great spiritual teacher in this world with millions of followers which has been a tremendous force for good -- has focused on slanderous accusations against them advanced by only a handful of people. Why not do some balanced reporting? There are thousands of stories of its benevolent, miraculous and progressive accomplishments.
Cult-like thinking is universal...
My response to this, for what it is worth, is that there may have been a time when JW's contributed to advances in medicine, the principles of religious freedom, increased rights for women and children, economic gains for JW's and their families, but that all ended decades ago. The GB gets richer while the members get poorer, subject to more abuse and even die in numbers that make the numbers of the victims of the People's Temple pale into insignificance.
Do the 'success' stories outweigh the crying of the dead the dying and the maltreated. It would appear that the rank and file JW's and the 30,000 newly baptized JW's and even those studying today to be baptized apparently think so. "Just as in the days of Noah..."
<sigh>
Life is a roller coaster. Get in, sit down, shut up and hang on!
