Golden Age Goodies

by Leolaia 279 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  Leolaia

  under_believer....It is interesting to see that inimitable Franz style in place so early....I believe this might be the earliest article known to be written by Franz, is it not? It just can't be a Franz article without allusions to "1918", "the antitypical Moses," and the like.

  PP...Yes, the position is quite the reverse of what Franz later proposed in the New World Translation in the 1950s, which in fact was used as a basis for interpolating "Jehovah" into the NT. Here he pointedly says that "in writing the New Testament in Greek," the authors of the NT did not use "Jehovah". But to be fair to Franz, the belief largely changed after the discovery and publication of the Fouad MS of the LXX in 1944, and then subsequently the publication of other LXX fragments with the tetragrammaton in the 1960s. Without this discovery, it would have been much harder to justify the use of "Jehovah" in the NWT Christian Greek Scriptures. This still does not excuse his dogmatic and wacky statements from 1928.
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  Leolaia

  Judge Rutherford no doubt made a lot of enemies in his rants against the Catholic Church and American institutions. But he also found supporters and allies. The Ku Klux Klan was just as much anti-Catholic as the old Judge was, so it should be not be surprising that they published comments supportive of his radio speeches and critical of Catholic opposition. But it is a little surprising to find the Golden Age favorably quoting the Ku Klux Klan in return:

  GAG #16: WE GET THUMBS UP FROM THE KU KLUX KLAN

  

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  *** g33 10/11 p. 4 Sending Forth the Truth Unto the Clouds ***

  "God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds." -- Psalm 57:3, 10...

  The big coast-to-coast hook-up of 104 stations was made entirely without aid of the so-called "regular" chain broadcasting systems. The Watch Tower organization made its own arrangements, as is its custom. Jehovah's blessing was manifestly upon the efforts.

  In a very special sense it was fulfilled on October 1 that God's truth reached unto the clouds. Indeed, while we may not know of it, it is entirely possible that on that day not merely one but many persons that were sailing along in airplanes beneath the clouds or even above them, were listening to Judge Rutherford's lecture on "The True God".

  Those who heard Judge Rutherford's address on "The True God" were charmed by its kindness, its goodness, and its truth. It seems right to spend a moment thinking of how God identifies himself with truth, and especially the most important of all truths, those about himself. "This is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God." -- John 17:3. ...

  The Kourier, published at Atlanta by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, in its issue of September, 1933, said in part:

  "Roman Catholic newspapers the country over have broken out in a rash of criticism of what they term anti-Catholic radio programs. They are in particular begging the Federal Radio Commission to place a ban on Judge Joseph F. Rutherford's 'Watchtower' programs. . . . The Catholic attack on the Rutherford programs is one of the hottest they have launched on any Protestant project recently. Some spineless stations have already eliminated the feature to which the Catholics object, while others, with more backbone, have told their Catholic critics to go stick their heads in a bucket of holy water."
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  Midget-Sasquatch

  The other stuff was comedic gold, but name-dropping the KKK?!?! I'm gobsmacked .
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  Leolaia

  Yes it is gobsmacking, and I'm a little surprised you're the only one to remark on it so far!
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  mavie

  Name dropping the KKK is disgusting...and this happened in 1933? No wonder my grandparents are still somewhat racist.
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  Leolaia

  In connection with the above name-dropping of the KKK, let's take a look at several of Clayton Woodworth's anti-Catholic rants:

  GAG #17: WISHING ARMAGEDDON ON THEM

  

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  *** g33 10/11 p. 26 Churchianity & Christianity ***

  The Boycotting of Free Speech

  WHEN, in his letter to the Catholic Press, Judge Rutherford drew attention to their un-American and unmanly methods of suppressing free speech, he stirred some of the hypocritical canines in women's clothes and dog collars into making some curious statements of just what they think free speech is. Such a statement appears in The Sunday Watchman, of St. Louis:

  ". . .it is not the intention of The Watchman to ruin any radio situation [sic] but only to attempt to drive the 'Judge' from the air until he can curb his tongue and stop twisting quotations from the Sacred Scriptures to suit his own ideas."

  In other words, Judge Rutherford would be allowed on the air only if he stopped using his own brains and used instead the brains of the 'pope'. The same issue says: "Let our Catholics in this trade area resolve that not one penny of their money will be spent with those firms which make Rutherford's broadcasts possible."

  It is a good thing to have these things published in the Catholic press and elsewhere so that when Jehovah God destroys the whole miserable nest of vipers every honest and decent person may rejoice that they no longer cumber the earth which they have disgraced.
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  VM44

  It is a good thing to have these things published in the Catholic press (Golden Age) and elsewhere (The Watchtower) so that when Jehovah God destroys the whole miserable nest of vipers every honest and decent person may rejoice that they no longer cumber the earth which they have disgraced.

  No longer cumbering and disgracing the earth with his crazy, arrogant, opinionated and harmful writings:

  Clayton J. Woodworth (1870 - December 18, 1951)

  --VM44
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  VM44

  Krazy Klan Kult Konnection!

  One can only gather that back then the KKK did not have bad reputation it deserved.

  Of course it appears that prejudice was rampant and accepted as a norm in those days.

  These Golden Age magazines have to be republished, they very much show how people thought back then.

  --VM44
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  VM44

  so that when Jehovah God destroys the whole miserable nest of vipers every" -- A fantasy belief held by Woodworth, promulgated by Rutherfod, and still held dear by millions of Jehovah's Witnesses today.

  A million people believing in something does not make that something true.

  --VM44
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  Leolaia

  On the same page, there was also this charming item:

  GAG #18: CATHOLICS WHO BELIEVE THEIR DOCTRINES ARE MORONS

  

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  *** g33 10/11 p. 26 Churchianity & Christianity ***

  "Too Controversial"

  A RADIO station director in Indiana gave as his excuse for not fulfilling his contract to broadcast Judge Rutherford's lectures that "it is our policy not to broadcast any talks of a religious nature which are too controversial or might give offense to the religious feelings of other persons". If that is the right standard, then we here and now object to the broadcasting of all Roman Catholic talks, on the ground that nobody with any common sense or any knowledge of history could possibly take any stock in any of them. They are entirely too controversial to go over with anybody except persons of moron or infantile mind, and they give offense to the religious feelings of everybody who has any of those things. If the simpleton who wrote that letter had said, "I stopped broadcasting Judge Rutherford's lectures because I am afraid of the Roman Catholic 15 percent of the population," we could have some respect for him, for then he would have told the truth. The "too controversial" and "offense to religious feelings" is all poppycock intended to conceal the truth.