Today I was driving my daughter to school and we were listening to the Hunchback of Notre Dame soundtrack.
One of the songs (that I have previously heard dozens of times before) struck me... it seems to me that it has lots of similarities with the JWs (or any other cult)...
Context: Frollo (compare him to the "Fidel and Discreet Slave") is this religious man who has raised Quasimodo the Hunchback (compare him to a rank and file). He has forced Quasimodo to stay in the Cathedrale of Notre Dame all his life...
Here is the beginning of the lyrics:
Out There
Frollo
The world is cruel
The world is wicked
It's I alone whom you can trust in this whole city
I am your only friend
I who keep you, teach you, feed you, dress you
I who look upon you without fear
How can I protect you, boy, unless you
Always stay in here
Away in here
Remember what I taught you, Quasimodo
You are deformed
Quasimodo
I am deformed
Frollo
And you are ugly
Quasimodo
And I am ugly
Frollo
And these are crimes
For which the world
Shows little pity
You do not comprehend
Quasimodo
You are my one defender
Frollo Out there they'll revile you
As a monster
Quasimodo I am a monster
Frollo Out there they will hate
And scorn and jeer
Quasimodo Only a monster
Frollo Why invite their calumny
And consternation?
Stay in here
Be faithful to me
Quasimodo I'm faithful
Frollo Grateful to me
Quasimodo I'm grateful
Frollo Do as I say
Obey
And stay
In here
Quasimodo I'll stay
In here
Quasimodo Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone
Gazing at the people down below me
All my life I watch them as I hide up here alone
Hungry for the histories they show me
All my life I memorize their faces
Knowing them as they will never know me
All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day
Not above them
But part of them
...
-indoubt