Stupid - in retrospect yes...sigh and I was one of them...
Hateful - well it can feel that way sometimes
Evil - I am sure some of them are...the child molesters...the ones that know about sexual abuse and yet keep silent....course the Catholic church has some of the same problems in this area.
Maybe my scope is limited. Maybe I don't know everything that goes on and if I did I would feel differently. But in my PERSONAL experience with JW's I would have to agree with Cygnus. I don't always like the way they act (to say the least) but I do feel that most of them are well meaning good people. I even understand the way my sisters feel, I don't like the way they are acting, but I understand where they are coming from. To them this shunning of me is "tough love"...they love me and want me to come back to the "truth" so that I and my daughter will get eternal live and see my parents again in the new system and this is their way of acomplishing their mission. They are wrong of course...and it certainly feels stupid and hateful to me...I wouldn't call them evil though.
lol Cy I know I couldn't name even one member of the Gov. body and neither can any of the JW's I know. And I still hang around with my niece and nephew who are JW's and I agree that the "new" JW tends to take most of what comes down the line with a grain of salt. It is my hope that this means further down the road we will see a kinder gentler JW....hey I can hope right?