Get this.
I talked to my father about these notes from Losch's speech. I singled out the whole eyes rotting out of their sockets/radiation thing. I qualified it by acknowleding I'm no expert, but past incidences in human history illustrate how deadly radiation can be.
For instance, I reminded him about Chernobyl. The area around Chernobyl is still seeing devastating effects of the meltdown, like severe birth defects. Even some Japanese survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who are now old, are still feeling effects (higher incidents of cancer, etc.) from radiation.
Radiation pollutes and damages organic life. I told him that if "radiation may be used" during Armageddon, it would probably have to be used worldwide. And since it may be used worldwide, how can it be selective (i.e. 'the wicked')? You can't be selective with a general radiation attack.
I told my father not to take my word for it but to Google the effects of radiation and how long radiation will stay in the environment and read up what nuclear physicists have to say on the matter.
I asked him then how then does Losch think that will work. If Jehovah uses radiation to destroy the wicked, how can "faithful witnesses" escape the deadly effects?
His answer......"Naturally we don't know, but obviously Jehovah himself will control it." He did concede the fact that Losch is "just speculating."
Ok, now I'm completely effing depressed. I love my father but he just accepts stuff like this with only a superfical perfunctory questioning.
I'm so steamed that members of the GB can talk about these horrible things, basing it on ancient scriptures and speculating what form the modern execution of these prophecies will take, and most JWs will "take it as gospel" to coin the phrase.
