Many of mankind’s most infamous leaders have had as their central idea that in order to ”solve” whatever they have perceived as mankind’s problems can be solved by genocide. One of the best know in our time is Adolf Hitler.
He followed an old European/Biblical tradition of blaming the Jew’s for all the problems facing the German people and the world. Exterminating the Jew’s would bring on a “New Order” with a thousand year reign of prosperity cleaned of Jew’s and sub human people like the Slav’s of Eastern Europe.
This thinking was based on the idea that there existed a superior race and in order for that race to get anywhere the other ones had to be exterminated or made slaves.
Pol Pot, the Cambodian revolutionary had an another brand of elitism that was based on another concept, he proposed the idea that if you could wipe out all the educated people, life would be much better for the Cambodian people.
Other’s have based their elitism along political lines, based on the concept that only one particular political view is acceptable and those not subscribing to it must be either converted or die.
This latest one reminds us about the religious area where Christianity itself is based on the elitism of religious orthodoxy. Only those who belong to the Christian faith has the right to exist so you have to convert of die, which of course make’s the Christian religion into the basically evil force it is.
As this isn’t enough that religion has been divided among itself by thousands of splinter group which all insist on possessing the ONLY “truth” and that everybody else has to conform or die. One such movement is the Watchtower Society. They have reached such an advanced stage of religious elitism that they already now can tell us who is unworthy of existence:
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Jehovah uses his organization to effect deliverance, and one’s being delivered depends on his relationship to God and to God’s organization. To many this may seem a narrow view of matters, yet we cannot condemn as unthinkably narrow what Jehovah provides for our deliverance. (Matt. 7:13, 14) We must seek deliverance on God’s terms.
Here we are told that the only chance any human being have for a future existence is to join the Watchtower organization. To make matters worse, being a member in this life saving organization isn’t quite enough, loafers and loiterers will be smoked out, so get out there and “place” Watchtower literature:
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20 Loafers, beware! There are still a few who associate with the organization who claim they are in the truth, yet they have no works to prove it. If they ever had any faith it is now dead. (Jas. 2:14-26) In their dedication vows to Jehovah they said they would go to work in his vineyard, but they never did. Now Jehovah blesses those that go, not the sluggards who say they will go to work but fail to do so. “As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him on an errand.” Let such heed the warning: No loitering allowed in the theocratic organization! If you will not work you shall not eat.
In such organization there is a strong longing back to the good old day’s where one could deal with such “elements” in a truly theocratic way and exterminate them forthwith after a brief “trial” in the city gate:
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We are not living today among theocratic nations where such members of our fleshly family relationship could be exterminated for apostasy from God and his theocratic organization, as was possible and was ordered in the nation of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai and in the land of Palestine. “Thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him to death with stones, because he hath sought to draw thee away from Jehovah thy God, . . . And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.”—Deut. 13:6-11, AS.
Being limited by the laws of the worldly nation in which we live and also by the laws of God through Jesus Christ, we can take action against apostates only to a certain extent, that is, consistent with both sets of laws. The law of the land and God’s law through Christ forbid us to kill apostates, even though they be members of our own flesh-and-blood family relationship. However, God’s law requires us to recognize their being disfellowshiped from his congregation, and this despite the fact that the law of the land in which we live requires us under some natural obligation to live with and have dealings with such apostates under the same roof.*** w61 10/1 597 Prophesying with the Loyal Organization ***
In ancient theocratic Israel such false prophets were to be tried before witnesses, exposed and stoned to death. (Deut. 13:1-11) Today the true Christian congregation may not enforce such a death penalty for prophets of deception who try to induce disloyalty to God and his kingdom. But the congregation can give them a spiritual smiting or striking with the truth of God’s Word, even wounding them sorely at heart and in spirit.
26 The very ones who have intensely loved them must strike and wound them in order to demonstrate their own principled loyalty to God and to his organization and to safeguard his loyal visible organization.
Unfortunately because of the Satanic sissy democracies and humanist wimps the wonderful rule of God cannot be acted out as ordained by the almighty. That severely hampers the theocratic organization in Brooklyn to limit their sanctions to hating and shunning those who disagree with their views. This is what happens when people are in such a grip of religious delusion:
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3 Let the honest-hearted person compare the kind of preaching of the gospel of the Kingdom done by the religious systems of Christendom during all the centuries with that done by Jehovah’s Witnesses since the end of World War I in 1918. They are not one and the same kind. That of Jehovah’s Witnesses is really “gospel,” or “good news,” as of God’s heavenly kingdom that was established by the enthronement of his Son Jesus Christ at the end of the Gentile Times in 1914.
Any “honest hearted” person who has actually bothered to make such an investigation has of course quite soon discovered what a complete sham and house of cards both the Watchtower Society and the Christian religion are. But this doesn’t stop superstitious and delusional people from making condemnations and judgements upon people who do not share their own particular superstition and insanity:
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13 Since the end of World War I, Jehovah’s Witnesses have asked Christendom’s clergy: ‘Are the catastrophic events that have afflicted our earth from 1914 onward a fulfillment of Jesus’ prophecy at Matthew 24:3-13?’ If those clerics honestly said yes, they would have to admit that Jesus Christ came into his heavenly Kingdom in 1914.*** w85 9/1 25 God's Ministers Prove Their Qualification ***
15 So Christendom’s clergy refuse to take a stand for Jehovah’s Kingdom by Jesus Christ. For failing to support it, they will be destroyed in the “great tribulation” just ahead.
What do such supremely hypocritical “true believers” say when they are confronted with their bigoted “holier than thou” attitudes? Then we get the tolerant “window dressing” version which is aimed at making their raving lunacy a little bit more edible, at least of the surface:
"It is good for all of us to resist any inclination to act as judges, recognizing that in the final analysis, Jehovah’s judgment by means of Jesus Christ is what counts."—Questions From Readers,
The Watchtower, 1993 5/15: 31
Don’t be fooled by such mealy mouthed phrases. According to the Bible, Jesus wasn’t a very tolerant man at all, he was just as much a “true believer” as his adherents. If you didn’t buy his version of reality, you aren’t qualified to exist anyway. So what’s new?
Norm.