I have had this discussion with my younger brother, who is attending meetings regularly but not baptized. He insists that he needs to have the BORG in his life or he would be able to be a good person. After my father died we both stopped attending meetings (he was 12, I was 20), he seriously rebelled and at 18 he was in jail for armed burglary. After spending a spending a year in jail, he came out and started attending meetings and re connected with several of his childhood JW friends. He has made a remarkable turnaround in his life, he stopped selling and using drugs and stopped breaking into houses. Despite all that I have shown him about the lies regarding the BORG (he believes me) he is certain that without going to meetings he would end up in jail. So, now I have taken up the stance that I will not discourage him from going to meetings and instead just try to encourage him that he has the possibility of being a "good" person with having to be in an organized religion. He in no way shuns me, even though he knows ALL of my dirt habits and knows that I am full of apostate information. Is he really a better person, just because of the JW lifestyle? I think he is and I am afraid of him being a full-time JW almost as much as I fear him not going back to his old life, which landed him in prison.
What's a brother to do?
Clayton
“Brothers don’t shake hands, brothers got to hug”