Since 1983, the book, Crisis of Conscience, by Raymond Franz has taken on a life of its own ... translated now into many languages.  While at BRCI, I saw Crisis of Conscience in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and others languages, even Japanese ... Japan has long been the love child nation that the Watchtower uses to beat the western JWs over the head ... more than this, though ...

Crisis of Conscience is now in its Fourth Edition, being revised in April 2002 !!! containing a discussion of the United Nations NGO issue and many other fascinating updates ... well worth reading about ... also ...

Here are all the languages I spotted on the Commentary Press web site:

English
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Spanish
Swedish
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Japanese
Polish
Portuguese
Russian

As I noted in the BRCI thread, the Hispanic community in several areas is starting to distrust the Watchtower Society ... and given that Crisis of Conscience has been available in Spanish for several years, it is only a matter of time as the Hispanic community reads about the UN issue and other updated information to give them pause to see the Watchtower for what it is.

AND, I hope that there may be more translations in the making ... so that Crisis of Conscience will be available to even more ... yet, the Watchtower Society just does not get it ... that information is getting out ... via all kinds of means ... and Crisis of Conscience is staying updated to continue the battle ... other books, like 30 years a Watchtower Slave, have pretty much remained stuck in history ... but Crisis of Conscience is getting better as the years go by ... staying ahead of the Organization ... ... I recommend, if you can, visiting the Commentary Press web site at: http://www.commentarypress.com/  If you have not done so already, order a copy of this latest 4th Edition of Crisis of Conscience.

Okay Amazing, you sold me.  Just ordered the May 2002 updated version of CoC.  Thank you.

Hey Dutchie:  That's Great.  Maybe Commentary Press will pay me a sales commission.   I picked up the latest edition while at BRCI.  As expected, Ray did a great job in updating with good material.  Let me know what you think of it after you read it.  Also, the Gentile Times Reconsidered is updated, and I got a copy of that one too.  I read the first edition, but loaned it out and lost track of it.  So, I decided the updated version was even better to have on hand.

Ahh, the first step in letting the "light" shine in

  My wife has just finished the 2002 edition.  She felt that the book answered many of her questions concerning the organisation and helped her solve many of her conflicts within herself.

I guess I should get off my butt and read it.

Thankyou Amazing,

I had ordered Crisisof Conscience on Amazon.com and they said that the book was out of circulation for them. I understand now. I will order the revised edition right now. Thanks again.

Pureheart

I'll have to get the uptodate copies of both of those. I have them already and they are great for confirming you doubts and 'putting your mind at rest' that leaving is the right thing to do.

It's great that Ray is keeping it updated like this - really makes it more powerful and helps more people (esp. the translations). I wonder how many people his books have helped since he wrote them?

Hi Simon:

This is something I tried to find out many years ago.  I asked Ray to let me know how many he had sold so far ... I was not interested in how much money he made, but just wanted an idea of circulation to see how many have been helped.  He would not say.  There are estimated to be about 2,000,000 ex-JWs worldwide ... mostly in Western Europe and North America ... so I hope that Ray has sold hundreds of thousands of books and made some good money.  He lives in a fairly average home on a few acres.  But one would not think he is rich by any means.

Well, I am going to order it too seeing as my 2nd edition copy has lost its first 26 pages due to being loaned out so much.

I noticed it last night when a dub friend of mine eagerly took it from my hands to read it while at work this weekend.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the new version will be as successful as the older version. ;)