JohnAquilla My mom for example is the greatest woman I have ever met. That lady has only a 1st grade education, is 90 percent deaf, and when I was born, my father left us and she raised me all by herself. She always put me first in her life. I will never be that good of a person.
Wow, she sounds like SOME woman, not to be rude but men are crazy! Who would leave a woman like that!I would literally give my right eyeball to have a mother like that and BE a mother that good. You are a lucky boy.
Regarding good folk like mum Aquilla, I sometimes think they are just too good to SEE the bad in others, it just doesn"t exist in their 'world' of thought. I think this applies especially to older one's who were taught not to question and belief in God was a given. I also think as the wtbts has expanded it has lost its "amateur" men of goodwill vibe and feels more like the big business corporation it is. I think all religons must have had that small, first century brothers united in love vibe in the beginning. Riches mean power and this attracts the greedy and the power-mongers and the watchtower is certainly rich.
I DO however think education has a LOT to do with it. The priviledge of a university education was for the rich only in the not too distant past, even in the developed world. A undergraduate Philosophy module was certainly the final nail in the coffin for me.Some folk don't have that oppertunity, certainly as I have mentioned older one's who have not had the benefits newer generations have. This particularly applies to evolutionary science and the dissemenation of information, that we are far from the only human species to have walked the earth. Once you learn the scientific method CAN be trusted, anyone with a modicum of curiosity, a primary human characteristic, will soon learn that there is MUCH to question in the Bible.
Of course, despite the fact many of us have escaped, we still underestimate the power of of the cult.....one two three oubliette....lets review...it's a cult!
