I was reading A article today '' Author; David Nicholls". Personally
I do not feel this apply 100% to all religions, but it definitely fits
the JW.
Religion is the ultimate incitement leading humans to be selfish. It
holds its adherents in A delusional state( the end is near) where
reality is contorted leaving them open to the acceptance of being
a part of producing pain, suffering and death (shunning, blood)
without remorse. It supplants A normal compassionate conscience
with one that is in a state of unease if certain "giving" are not
adhered to, no matter what the consequence.
Its ever-present promises of worldly and other-worldly rewards
are messages of delight for easy and uncritical ears. They sooth
the troubling thoughts and wrinkled logic (overlapping generation)
of the faithful by the ample supply of absolution from responsibility
for ghastly deeds perpetrated against those arbitrarily selected
to be sinners, ( the 6 billions to be killed in the last days).
The fear of eternal damnation and delight at thoughts of bliss
forever, capture the JW,s mind, enslaving them to do thier bidding
of whatever is decreed. These induced selfish desire and terrors
bind the faithful to an antiquated code, not produce by reason,
but by ignorant men ( the gov. body) from an ignorant age.
The selishness is so great and so disguised by delusion ( JW,s)
that each and every generation of JW not only sanctions the
indoctrination of its children with the unproven, it heavily promotes
it as being truthful. Young defenceless minds succumb, to greater
and lesser degrees, and forever more view existence through
distorted thinking.