Fadeaway1962, I think that people have misinterpreted the whole UN thing. They are antiWatchtower and just look for anything they can use against them.
This celebrating birthdays is one of the things that I left for. It is too pharisaical. While I think celebrating birthdays is sill and needless, teaching children that taking a piece of birthday cake is disloyal to Jehovah is being a pharisee.