My problem with the 'No Beard" stance was the dishonesty of the justification. That's because the religion pride's itself on not having "rules" like other religions or the pharisees.
But in order to maintain order and walk in lockstep like a theocratic army (which the WTS has likened itself to) the org. needs rules. So why can't they bring themselves
to just be honest and say: "Look. This is the way we want it. It has no basis in scripture, but it is how we wish to project ourselves." But no! They have to go on and on
about all this other BS which has NOTHING to do with anything. And the going on and on, the justificatios, the rationalizations ad infinitum, is what ALWAYS rubbed
me the wrong way. Why can't they be honest and upfront? Now i know why. They are incapable of honesty, because honesty takes humility and the leadership has
never possessed humility. And if even in something so little and inconsequential as wearing your own facial hair they can prove dishonest and disingenueos, how can they
be trusted with the consequential things? The life and death matters? According to their own Bible, they CAN"T.
These guys are evil, man. EVIL.