Over the years, many well-intentioned posters have been frustrated when they ask fellow apostates (wear the name proudly!) to band together to let the world know how corrupt and destructive the WT cult is.
I think there are some hard facts about this particular cult that make combatting it so frustrating:
1. The number of dubs worldwide is too small to make much difference to the surrounding population (unlike the Mormons) and too big to be considered a niche cult (like the mother-ship suicide cult in California years ago).
2. Dubs are bland. They don't shave their heads, dress in robes, chant, live in ashrams, speak in tongues, or do anything else that identifies them as the destructive weirdos they are.
3. They are not violent as a group, unlike a few Christian fundamentalist groups, especially the fundamentalist LDS cults. Some members are lost to the blood doctrine, but the number of deaths is not high enough to ping the national and international media radars.
4. Many ex-dubs are faders who wish to retain contact with loved family members that are still dubs, and so, although sympathetic to the cause, choose not to participate.
5. The public perceives dubs as harmless irritants that disturb their Saturday mornings with Bible gibberish and Watchtowers. The most they may know about dubs is the ban on blood transfusions and military service.
In other words, the WTS and JWs, by virtue of numbers and behavior, fly below the radar that would otherwise catapult them into national media attention.
Unless one or more of these factors changes, I don't see how any organized protest against the JW cult would succeed.
Thoughts, questions, comments?
(I won't be able to respond until tomorrow as my newbie account of 10 daily posts has been used up.)
Parakeet.
