You mentioned the reddit post and said this: "most of the damage done by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses is due to the unintended consequences of their actions, rather than the intention to do damage to people."
I agree with that, however, one's intent can still be classified as evil even if the damaging consequences of his actions to others were unintended.
Two scenarios:
1) Joe is a hateful person who loves to cause pain and suffering to others and to harm them. He breaks into your house and tortures and kills you. He intended to harm you.
2) John doesn't have any desire to harm you, but he is a thief and he wants what you have. He breaks into your house to steal your stuff and when he sees you in the house, he causes you harm. His intention was not to cause you harm; it was an unintended consequence of an evil desire/action. Or consider a slave owner who works his slaves brutally and doesn't reward them. His intentions are not to cause them harm; they are to get the cotton to the market so he can make money. However, he is still evil.
So, one's intentions can still be classified as being evil even though they weren't to directly cause harm to others.
The org has used people and destroyed lives. The prime of my life was taken from me. I was robbed of millions just in wages I could have made. And yes, the org is deceptive, and some of the leaders have to know it.
As Cofty mentioned, they have to know the blood doctrine is wrong. They want so badly for the issue to go away. They're coming as close as they can to accepting blood transfusions. That "fractions" stuff is totally BS, and they have to know it. If I tell you not to touch my car, but you touch a tire or the windshield or a mirror, could you claim you're not touching my car (because you're only touching a part (or fraction) of it?) If I tell you not to eat my pizza, so you separate it into "fractions" like crust and cheese and pepperoni and eat them separately, are you not guitly?
Either it's permissible to take a blood transfusion or it's not. Once can't separate blood into fractions and then accept the fractions and claim he's not taking a transfusion.
The org knows it's wrong, but can't backtrack on the blood doctrine because of all the lost lives and the PR nightmare that would result. No, the intentions aren't to directly cause harm, but they are still evil.
Also, as Cofty mentioned, they have to know they're wrong about 607. You have to research Carl Olof Jonsson's letters to the org, etc.
Another deceptive thing is the disaster relief moneymaking scam. I'm going to start a thread about that hopefully soon.
