This may be the topic of an old thread but, if the G.B. and WTS don't have good motives, what is the point of the whole religion?
I have wondered this myself.
Of course, few witneses really know about the history of the religion. Few know that Russell was influenced by Egyptology, the prevailing popular ideology of the mid to late 1800's, and that he got the year 1914 from measuring a pyramid, calling it "God's great stone witness." Few know that Rutherford had a palatial house built in San Diego, deeded it to "ancient worthies" who were soon to be resurrected, and stayed in it during the winter, driving one of his two sixteen cylinder cadillacs.
Ray Franz described meetings of the governing body. One I found interesting was concerning how several years ago (I think in the 80's) they determined the appropriateness of certain sex acts among married people. It seems there was a case in South America concerning a woman wanting to know if she was scripturally free to remarry. Her husband had had sex with animals, and also anal intercourse with a woman. The governing body talked about this for a while. Franz reported that no prayer was said before determination of any outcome, nor were scriptures studied to examine the issue. They stated that while degrading, the woman was not free to remarry because the sex could produce no offspring. The woman, who would not take her husband back, because she could not remain with a man who'd had sex with an animal, remarried and was disfellowshipped for adultery.
Later, the GB decided to look into the issue further. They stated that any anal or oral sex was like a prostiture, and should not be done. Many married couples decided to confess to elders that they had engaged in this type of sex. This caused many embarassing sessions in the "back room" and some were disfellowshipped.
Later, of course, the "new light" was reversed. But how many marriages did this destroy? How much humiliation to many?
How many more situations could we describe? The WTS being a non-governmental associate of the UN? The generation changes? The 1935 changes with ever increasing numbers of annointed? New governing body members much younger? The nethinim? (that one seems to have gone away) Changes in blood doctrine-no whole but O.K. in components?
Yes, I have wondered about the whole thing many times. It seems at this point it is just self-perpetuating.........