The Watchtower Society is out with a window dressing article on it’s web page these days. It has the title:
“LOVE OF NEIGHBOR
Has Grown Cold”
The article starts with decrying the lessons of Bosnia, Rwanda, Israeli’s and Palestinians, Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.
Then follows the usual song and dance about it all being foretold by the Creator and Jesus and is of course a sure sign of the “last days”.
Today's lack of love, therefore, is part of the evidence that we are living in the last days of this world. Happily, it also means that this world of ungodly people will soon be replaced by a righteous new world ruled by love.—Matthew 24:3-14; 2 Peter 2:5; 3:7, 13.
Then the article goes on and tell the readers:
“LOVE OF NEIGHBOR
A Reality”
Who is making this real you think? Well, Jehovah's Witnesses are of course. The article goes on to quote a lot of clueless and ignorant people who have probably copied a Watchtower press release and printed the bilge:
“What about today? Is Christlike love practiced by anybody? The Encyclopedia Canadiana observes: "The work of Jehovah's Witnesses is the revival and re-establishment of the primitive Christianity practised by Jesus and his disciples . . . All are brothers."
What does that mean? It means that Jehovah's Witnesses allow nothing—neither race, nationality, nor ethnic background—to cause them to hate their neighbors. Nor will they kill anyone, for they have figuratively beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. (Isaiah 2:4) The Witnesses, in fact, are noted for taking the initiative to help their neighbors.—Galatians 6:10.No wonder an editorial in California's Sacramento Union noted: "Suffice it to say that if all the world lived by the creed of the Jehovah Witnesses there would be an end of bloodshed and hatred, and love would reign as king." A writer in Hungary's Ring magazine remarked: "I have come to the conclusion that if Jehovah's Witnesses were the only ones living on the earth, wars would cease to exist, and the only duties of the policemen would be to control traffic and to issue passports."
After quoting all this ignorant drivel they move in for the clincher with this headline:
“When All People
WILL LOVE ONE ANOTHER”
Now we are getting the usual song and dance about a heavenly rule and surprisingly enough we even get a slight hint at how this “rule” is to be implemented:
“When God's Kingdom comes, what will happen to this hate-filled world? "The kingdom," will "crush and put an end" to all the corrupt governments of this world. (Daniel 2:44) The Bible explains: "The world is passing away . . . , but he that does the will of God remains forever."—1 John 2:17.”
This is how lightly you can pass over butchering 6+ billion people if you are a good Christian. Then quickly move on to more drivel:
“Concerning God's new world, the Bible says: "The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it." (Psalm 37:9-11, 29; Proverbs 2:21, 22) What a glorious time that will be! "Death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore." (Revelation 21:4) Even dead ones will live again, and the entire earth will be transformed into a literal paradise.—Isaiah 11:6-9; 35:1, 2; Luke 23:43; Acts 24:15.”
After the slaughter is over only the “righteous” will be alive and we all know who that is. Of course as true Christians they can’t feel anything but joy at such a “glorious” slaughter? I mean what else can give a true believers such immense satisfaction and warm glow inside as the fact that everybody who didn’t buy his religion are now dead? The Watchtower Society has come a long way and have learned how to make their gruesome and horrible message with the code word “Good News” more edible. In the good old days as a legacy of Rutherford they were far more honest about these things:
w55 7/15 438 War from Heaven Brings Peace to Earth
15 Men have a saying about "dying with your boots on." At Armageddon Jehovah God will grant their wish and let them "die with their boots on." He will allow them to build up to peak strength and go down fighting.w55 7/15 436 War from Heaven Brings Peace to Earth
Men can spray a field with chemicals that kill weeds but spare crops; too bad they cannot spray cities with bombs that blow the bad to bits but leave the innocent intact.w55 7/15 436 War from Heaven Brings Peace to Earth
11 The battle of Armageddon is righteous and in harmony with Jehovah's attributes of justice, power, wisdom and love. It is just because it is selective in its destruction. It kills those deserving to die. It does not slaughter those of good will seeking to serve Jehovah. This battle displays Jehovah's power, and it will be exerted to the extent necessary to accomplish the destruction determined.
Here they even use the very correct word “slaughter” for what they hope and pray for. However, how many will “deserve to die” on this “glorious” day?
w58 10/15 p614-615:
"On Satan's side will be all the rest of mankind, more than 99.9 percent, even as we read: "The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." That includes all the governments of the world together with their supporters, the commercial, religious and social institutions. Even the professedly Christian organizations? Yes, because all such that are friends of the world are making themselves enemies of God."
Again a quite refreshing and honest approach, more than 99,9% of mankind will be slaughtered so Jehovah's Witnesses can have their long awaited and much prayed for LOVE fest.
But even in our time, once in a while, “Writing” feel it is time to take the “velvet gloves” off and tell it like it is. Then the mask is off and suddenly the thin veneer of sugar coating is melted away and the grim, stone cold hatred that only a true faith can produce is revealed:
w94 7/1 13 Shortly, the great tribulation will suddenly break out, moving quickly to a climax in “the war of the great day of God the Almighty.” (Revelation 16:14, 16) It will reach a crescendo as Jehovah destroys this system of things and the figurative table at which the world’s nations have been feeding. Jehovah will also overthrow the entire invisible organization of Satan the Devil with its hordes of demons. Those who have continued to feed at Satan’s spiritual table, the table of demons, will be forced to attend a literal meal, no, not as partakers, but as the main course—to their destruction! — See Ezekiel 39:4; Revelation 19:17, 18.”
This is the true face of the Watchtower Society and Jehovah's Witnesses, don’t you all feel the tremendous “neighbourly love”? Wouldn’t you really like to live in the “New System” with these wonderful loving people?
Norm.