dropoffyourkeylee - “ To which I would add that, in my opinion, Rutherford's intent at the time was to drive a wedge between the WT adherents and the Bible Student movements. The Bible Student movements have diminished to the point most people are hardly aware of them, but during Rutherford's time, about 75% of the religion left the WT and most of them joined in with the various Bible Student associations. A lot of JW families were split, and Rutherford couldn't have his JWs associating with their family at birthdays and other holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas.”
Nice catch.
I knew it about socially isolating members from non-members, but those particulars hadn’t actually occurred to me.
God, what a vindictive prick that guy was.
I’ve long felt that if there’s any true justice to the universe, he and Jaracz are cellmates in Hell.