One distinct advantage Brooklyn has over competing religious organizations is the lack of evidence for significant financial benefit towards their own community of needy Jehovah’s Witness, let alone the ‘soon to be biblically doomed' world community at large, relative to the amount of governmental tax largesse that provided the catalyst for the corporations’ accumulation of wealth in the first place.
It’s my understanding that the intent behind governmental tax breaks given to religious organizations was to allow the latter to take the greater financial responsibility because they're supposed to be more sensitive at providing for the special needs of their religious and surrounding conventional communities than sterile governments of the day.
As mindchilds’ experience illustrates, I wonder if the WTBTS is actually the corporate social citizen they paint themselves using their own publications or are they simply using their tax-free status as a 'cash cow' more blatantly than others of their sort.
Unless of course, you think the acquisition and husbanding of corporate real estate via ‘educational’ centers in picturesque locations at the expense of rank and file Jehovah’s Witnesses ‘on the brink’, is their corporate idea of displaying a social conscience.
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