Rutherford's Death Certificate

by Bangalore 27 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  BlindersOff1

  So true

  10) Usual occupation: editor

  11) Industry or Business: publishing (retired)

  Not "Ordained Minister" or "Spokesperson for God" but editor of a publishing company. Now ain't that the truth!!!
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  LoisLane looking for Superman

  I have never seen his Death Certificate. Wow. At least Bonnie stated the truth about his Occupation. His life was that of a whiskey drinking, whore mongering, reprobate, that used his psychopathy personality, to build his Empire on the backs of his victims, as he made money as an Editor in the Religious Publishing field.

  Despicable.

  Just Lois
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  slimboyfat

  Where is Leolaia these days?
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  Bella15

  Exactly ... EDITOR ... I thought maybe at least they could put "Pastor" Religious Minister" whatever BUT EDITOR!!! Right on ...
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  ShirleyW

  Like Lois says, it's quite obvious from the certificate that it says his place of business was a publishing company and he was an editor.

  Boggles the mind how so many millions of people believe that a publishing company can promise everlasting life.
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  zed is dead

  His occupation should have been "Fiction Writer."

  zed
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  villagegirl

  I see it states he is still married to Mary Rutherford ? He was only 72 ?

  He was living in the San Diego Mansion they built to house the Hebrew

  Prophets who were supposed to be ressurrected to earth in 1925 according

  to Millions Now Living Will Never Die, a pamphlet Rutherford wrote, and

  then he spent millions building a huge Mansion for them and lived in it.
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  144001

  The "mansion" is not that big, by California standards. Today, Beth Sarim is a nice, upper-middle class home. But in the years that Rutherford lived there, it was a "mansion" by the standards of that time period.
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  villagegirl

  The Mansion he lived in was and is worth millions :

  check out these references:

  GOOGLE the address on the Birth Certificate SEE IT for yourself
  
  4440 Braeburn Road, San Diego, California
  
  this is the House of Princes built in 1929
  
  with the donations of average Jehovah's Witnesses
  
  Beth-Sarim house the "prophets" who were predicted to be

  resurrected in 1925 in Millions Now Living Will Never Die
  
  But in fact Rutherford and members of the

  Governing Body lived there in luxury,

  during the Depression. and up to the 1940's
  
  It was Called Beth-Sarim or House of Princes
  
  http://orthocath.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/pilgrimage-to-beth-sarim/

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Sarim
  
  $75,000 Mansion is Willed to King David
  By United Press.
  San Diego, March 15. 1930
  When King David, slayer of Goliath, comes back to earth he will find

  the $75,000 mansion of James [actually, Joseph] Rutherford awaiting him.
  According to a deed recorded today, Rutherford wants King David to have the costly Spanish-type residence. If King David fails to claim the property Rutherford put in trust for him then Rutherford wants some other biblical character to get it.
  [G]ideon, Barak, Samson, Jepthae, Joseph or Samuel were named as alternatives to King David.
  The identity of these named as owners of the home are to be established by the International Bible Students’ Association and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. Rutherford is president of both organizations. Explaining his action, Rutherford said he momentarily expected the return to earth of famous figures of the Old Testament.
  Rutherford formerly was a circuit judge in Missouri.
  The New York Times (March 19, 1930) headlined:
  DEEDS SAN DIEGO HOME TO KINGS OF ISRAEL;

  Judge Rutherford, in the Interim Occupies the House and Drives the Cars.
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  jgnat

  144,001 said the same thing, villagegirl. I am more interested that Bonnie Heath was at his bedside, not his wife.