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  Awake July 8th extolls the virtues of Beer

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  Yes. When Joseph Rutherford went from Boonville, Missouri, to become Watchtower president he was against the prohibition of alcoholic drink and it often came into Bethel headquarters out of Canada. So that's been policy from the early 1900s. Beer and wine are common at wedding parties held for Jehovah's Witness newly-weds.

  Third president of the Watchtower Society was Nathan Knorr who also drank and began large purchases of stock, although Rutherford had written against "big business" even while building a big religious book publishing business of his own.
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  Awake July 8th extolls the virtues of Beer

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  The Watchtower Society has always permitted beer drinking though saying to not become drunk.
  

  A possible reason for this particular article is that STOCK is owned in a beer company. I suggest those who know how see if the Watchtower Society is listed as a stockholder in any of the major brands, although they sometimes buy stock through other companies or individuals to make it harder to trace back to them.

  They have also run positive ads on mining (I think it was copper) and especially the airlines industry in the past.
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  The Church of Jehovah - online

  by bibleweb in

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  i was recently viewing an online fellowship for ex-jws who still love jehovah and wish to tell others about paradise earth.

  this is number 1 so where is number 2?

  and who else has visited either?

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  I was recently viewing an online fellowship for ex-JWs who still love Jehovah and wish to tell others about paradise earth. This is number 1 so where is number 2? And who else has visited either? Are there more? It's true we don't need Watchtower-appointed elders for such beliefs and so I'm thinking about this seriously. I don't want to become an atheist, fundamentalist or anything like that, so this is attractive, like a Reformed society for JWs and exJWs.