A simple question: Is the Watchtower's continuance of their blood transfusion policy rather like the way Nazis used the rail system?
It is asserted that the Nazis were so fanatically driven to exterminate Jews, Poles and others that they used vital railway resources to transport prisoners to concentration camps rather than transport needed weapons and soldiers to the front.
I observe a clear drift in the organization towards more ease and compromise. Even the Society now talks about Witnesses who lead a double life or those who are 'part-time' Witnesses. Meetings and magazine production have been cut. Youth are leaving. Contributions don't keep pace with expenses...............and yet, we still have the blood issue, don't we?
The Society has to use lawyers, print literature about blood and push the elders to serve as its enforcement agents thru judicial committees, "Liaison" committees and Hospital visitors discreetly charged with observation. What effort! Why, why, why can't they let go of this illogical death dealing issue? Why can't they call it a matter of conscience and let go?
I think that, no matter what compromises are made in the future or what acknowledgements of drift and decline are made, they will always be fanatical about blood transfusions. They will sacrifice their last contributed nickel to support these needless deaths.
Like the US in Vietnam, they cannot admit to being wrong and wasting peoples lives over a mistake of interpretation. As long as they claim the privileges of being a religion, no one can sue them for this stupid issue. They're safe as long as dumb Witnesses keep dying and they mindless quote "abstain!"
Ever notice how transfusions can identify a Witness more deeply than anything else? Forget Jehovah, forget meeting attendance and the preaching work, forget morals and notice how people on the fringes of the organization eagerly accept the 'no blood' taboo often while doing nothing else!
They will never let go of this bloody issue.
metatron