wasblind:
Evidently, Jehovah's Witnesses no longer have " evidence" that Satan started WWI
It seems that in the JW mindset, all was well in the world and... suddenly... out of nowhere, World War I happened in the magical year of... 1914. Anyone reading only JW literature might be forgiven for thinking that, out of the blue, Archduke Ferdidand was assassinated on a whim, and that that was the very beginning of the conflict.
Back in reality, it followed on from the Balkan Wars of 1912 - 1913 (which themselves followed on from tensions that had developed throughout eastern Europe from the mid-19th century onwards).
Funnily enough, JW literature has seen fit to discuss many wars. The following wars are specifically listed in the JW Publications Index under the main entry for War:
- Peasants' War (Germany) (1524)
- Eighty Years War (1568-1648)
- Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
- English Civil War (1642-1651)
- American War of Independence (1775-1783)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
- Opium Wars (1839-1842; 1856-1860)
- Maori Wars (sporadically, from 1845-1872)
- Castle War (Mayans vs. Spanish) (1847-1853)
- Taiping Rebellion (China) (1850-1864)
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Boer War (1880 - 1881; 1899-1902)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Korean War (1950-1953)
In addition, various Watch Tower Society publications discuss or at least mention just about evey other notable conflict worldwide, as well as various minor civil wars. And yet the Watchtower Library CD-ROM does not make one single mention of the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, even when specifically addressing the history of World War I.