Did the WTS always teach that women were made in God's image? Isn't there a qualifier?
This seems like a relatively new point (but not contradictory to any old points enough to
be new light). I am sure it's a way to say "Women, us men run the organization, but you
are okay too.)
I seem to recall the WT saying that all the angels that forsook their position took women
for themselves, that they were all masculine as Jehovah and Michael (Jesus) were.
So how many jws have married someone of a different culture: are they really saying a different race, nationality, education, social background?
Is this the problem area in the WTS? As female jws desperately look for a husband, are they selecting unwisely? Isn't it more likely that they barely know the person and in the haste to clinch the deal before another sister does, or fearing to commit fornication, submit to their sexual drive rather than learn to control it? Most disfellowshippings are for adultery not fornication, indicating that marriage is no guarantee of self control.
Those divorcing in the U.S. are typically young and occasionally of different races or
education or social background. More typically, they just don't know each other.
She thinks she can put up with whatever his personality is, he thinks he has a
sexual plaything.
Oh, the fornications are typically either hidden and no DF's result, or the elders get the
fornicators back in line with policy. Adulterers are harder to get back in line because
they want to get out of the marriage.
I knew so many men who never went in "field service" with their wives, never pre-studied for the book study or the WT study with their wives. I know of many wives who left their husbands because they never spent time together.
What have you observed?
There were many men who didn't study or get out in the field circus. I didn't see that the
wives were "leaving" these husbands until the husbands started finding something outside
of the marriage.
I love your whole section on "quickly apologizing."