This was inspired by another poster whole claimed in another thread that JW's were catagorically the worst cult.
I've done a little reading on other cults. Okay, being a JW is quite bad. Really quite bad. But, boys and girls, ex-brothers and sisters, it's not THAT bad.
We might feel that we are bad off, what with Rutherford and Russel and Pyramids and Mexico and Blood and Oral sex and 1914 and 607 and 1975 and vacinations and... okay, okay, we were quite bad off.
But Mormons? Oh BOY! They should be glad that their Holy Book is called the book of Mormon and their chief messinging angel is called Moroni, 'cause if it had been the other way round, well, it would be one religion where it was exactly what it said on the book.
You see, there's this dude, Elohim. Flesh and blood, lives on a planet, and he's got loads of wives, but a problem. They have ickle spirit babies. SO their ickle spirit babies come to Earth, and become humans, and, if they are a good daddy Moron, er Mormon, they get their own planet and become a god!
Wow! We were robbed! All that time and trouble and that endless bloody endless round of meetings and door-knocking, and we were gonna be, like long-lived gardners or something. Mormons have got the deal man! They get to be gods!
And Scientologists. Oh please. Look, if you want to spend an hour holding on to two wires coming out of a voltmeter, and give me $2000, that is FINE by me. I won't try and sell you the jewellery, or the books, or ask you dumb questions. You are clear, okay?
But, seriously, those were some of the good ones.
Reverend Jones anyone? Hey, let's all feed our children cyanide at gun-point. Praise god!
Koresh... I know a woman from another xDub board who delivered his post before all the Messiah crap...
Those UFO nut jobs who killed themselves.
The Children of God? Aren't they the ones where paedophillia was not a crime but past of their beliefs?
Moonies? You think that JW's do mind control? Become a Moonie.
Hare Krishna's? Hmmm... the one's I've met have seemed quite sane, if a little smug. What I've read is ghastly. Dunno...
Death or abuse is only the JW's equivalent of collatoral damage from living in a disfunctional religion, not a standard feature.
People living in glass paradigms shouldn't throw stones...