Something I just thought of regarding the JWs that Rick mentioned were smiling and giving thumbs-ups…
… I’m actually inclined to believe it.
Remember when there used to be a kind of implication that hidden “sins” would somehow semi-miraculously make themselves known (ostensibly to “encourage” the sinner to get ahead of it and confess, lest it go worse for them)?
I suspect more and more still-ins (PIMO or otherwise) are realizing that that just ain’t so…
…so they got a lot less to be afraid of.