"The ceeam of the crop has gone...."
The religion has never been true and the elders have never had real authority from god, just a man made dictaitorship.
For as long as elders have destroyed families and lives, there has been no cream and no crop.
An elder that smiles as he disfellowships you or hugs you as he reproves you, is still a human in a position he does not deserve.
An elder has always gained the position, not from bible knowledge or study,mbut by loyalty to the orgsnisation. They are nothing better than mafia footsoldiers.
For those of us with rose tinted glasses of the past, sunny weekends at the assembly and loving elders wanting us to live forever....wake up! Behind the scenes people were still getting stamped on and disfellowshipped. The reason you look back so fondly was because you were immersed in a mind control, brain washed state of mind, everything was candy floss! ......it wasn't! Tne further back in literature you go, the more hurrendous the doctrines were on rape, vaccines, science, medicine, personal sex life, thinking....