Thank you, I'll check out those videos.
I don’t know how someone could watch the documentary and not be crushed by the sheer irrationality of it all.
I understand your sense of disbelief. But from what I have seen of the elders, otherwise intelligent, friendly people act normal up to the point where reality and the truth is perceived by them as a threat.
I have seen it most starkly when someone who I think KNEW Watchtower's doctrines were rubbish from the start, was presented with the truth (ie 3 is not 11). The truth is going to reveal something about them which they don't want to be seen. It's like a thief caught with his hand in the till. So what the thief does is, he seeks to convince all other onlookers that the shop keeper is the thief. If they refuse to believe him. He burns the shop down and says the shop never existed and the onlookers are mad for ever believing it did. If no one takes any action against this thief and arsonist, he'll carry on like that. Therefore, everyone had better prepare to view the world his way or have their own houses burnt down and their stuff stolen.
If anyone gets upset by theft of arson, the words theft and arson get reframed. In Watchtower world maybe they'd be reframed as 'privileges'. Yes it is absurd but once you get to this level, you realise how that which is often viewed as common sense is actually Christianity. People have taken commnon sense values for granted but now others are challenging that view. And the questions are 'why is something wrong?' What is 'wrong?'
Yes, many laws do rest on Judeo-Christian values. Now here's a question, is attacking such laws Antisemitc? If not, why not?
Putting out information which stirs up agression by group of people 'A' against group of people 'B', isn't that a hate crime? If not why, why not?
