There is much more that makes for the easy targets:
https://www.jashow.org/articles/false-t ... your-door/
To name some on this long list:
- The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, USA, was founded over 100 years ago by Charles Taze Russell, who had no theological training, but adopted the title, “Pastor�.
- Early Watchtower magazines (3/15/1913 & 1/15/1912) reveal that he believed a person’s desire to worship God was due to the shape of their brain. He believed that if a dog’s head were shaped like a man’s, the dog would think like a man!
- He offered health advice too, believing appendicitis and typhoid fever were caused by “biting worms in the colon�.
- He sold “miracle wheat� at greatly inflated prices. Despite all this, his followers then (and now) believed that he was God’s “faithful and discreet slave� referred to in Matthew 24:45. After his death, his legacy, the Watch Tower organization became this sole channel for God in the eyes of its followers.
- THAT Jesus Christ (who is Michael the Archangel in their doctrine) is mediator for only a small, elite, group within their ranks called the “anointed remnant�. Others must come to this group who control the organization and earn their salvation by absolute obedience to it.
- THAT all religions except their’s are of Satan, and your Pastor or Priest is under the Devil’s control.
- THAT the Watchtower Society is the only source of truth on earth today, and all churches teach error and will be destroyed at Armageddon.
- THAT Armageddon and Christ’s second coming were foretold to happen in 1874, 1914, 1925 and 1975 by this “non-prophet� organization.
- THAT when Christ failed to show up in 1914 The Society claimed in later years that He had come—invisibly
- THAT none of their “translating committee� knew Biblical Greek or Hebrew. No scholars at all
- THAT Fred Franz, who for many years headed the Society, perjured himself under oath in Scotland in a court trial, by saying he could read Hebrew, and then failing a simple Hebrew test.
Being politically neutral IMO has very little to do with the received persecution. The fact that it, from the outside appears to be a deceptive controlling cult probably has more to do with it than any political stance.
You can give a man a fish and he will be fed for a day, or you can teach a man to pray for fish and he will starve to death.
I blame man for codifying those rules into a book which allowed superstitious people to perpetuate a barbaric practice. Rules that must be followed or face an invisible beings wrath. - KenRU
It is sad that in an age of freedom some people are enslaved by the nomads of old. - Marco
If you are unable to demonstrate that what you believe is true and you absolve yourself of the burden of proof, then what is the purpose of your arguments? - brunumb
"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this." -- Albert Einstein -- Written in 1954 to Jewish philosopher Erik Gutkind.
