In response to this thread, I would like to contribute for your reading 'PLEASURE'
* http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=15718&site=3
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and the Catholic Church…
WT 1/1/50
Take the greatest religious organization in the world today, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Look at it. Note the evils it has done in the name of religion: how it has corrupted nations; how it has managed to hold its members in illiteracy; how it has controlled education in many countries and kept the poor people in ignorance; how it has hid the Bible and had its Bible-burnings so that the Book of freedom would never become the peoples’ Textbook of life. Yes, look at the world it influences! Its wars! Its torture chambers! Its bloodshedding! Its oppression of the poor! Why have they not given the people the Bible, so that they could learn of the true God, his Son and the way of life eternal?
The following are the number of quotes from the Watchtower magazine about the Catholic Church (first column) and Protestant clergy (second column). All are negative except for a handful that are merely qotations from Catholic literature.
Cath Pros
1950 141 20
1951 97 18
1952 245 27
1953 178 27
1954 112 17
1955 221 29
1956 155 35
1957 141 23
1958 98 21
1959 86 16
1960 124 14
1961 83 19
1962 101 27
1963 127 25
1964 65 13
1965 44 6
1966 86 25
1967 57 16
1968 96 22
1969 55 12
1970 156 27
1971 120 29
1972 64 10
1973 95 13
1974 88 26
1975 120 20
1976 119 7
1977 85 20
1978 86 12
1979 88 10
1980 96 14
1981 137 27
1982 88 23
1983 118 15
1984 109 33
1985 86 25
1986 66 6
1987 94 41
1988 72 10
1989 132 25
1990 69 8
1991 98 15
1992 75 9
1993 64 20
1994 80 14
1995 84 16
1996 65 14
1997 46 11
1998 82 15
1999 33 15
The grand totals are (from Watchtower mag only):
Catholic (not including catholicism or catholics) 5027
Protestant (not including protestantism or protestants) 969
Buddhists and Buddhism combined: 330
And the grand prize goes to the Buddhists!!!!
BITE ME, WATCHTOWER!!!