Just thought I'd share what came out of the mouth of a local elder a few months ago.
It all started when they ignored our "no tresspassing" sign, and drove up our rural driveway as part of their cult recruiting ritual, or the "bothering work" as my dad calls it. I told him that the Witlesses fly the flag of "we only believe in the bible", but that simply put, the Watchtower blatantly ignores all sorts of scripture. He looked at me funny, and I used the example of the Great Crowd. I asked him where the great crowd was in Revelation and he of course says on earth. I said, well theres a perfect example, because the bible clearly says the great crowd is in heaven. He looked at me strange, and with a sneer he handed me his bible and said "Show me". So I did. He proceeds to say that the great crowd couldn't have been in heaven because we're promised a paradise earth. To that I told him those two ideas aren't necessarily conflicting ones, as I know of Christians who look forward to the earth being a paradise. He went off into a tirade, and I stopped him and asked him if getting any of these details right have anything to do with our salvation? He said "Well, no." So then I asked him why we would even worry about it, much less argue about stuff like that. I was trying to get him to think.
I then told him that the Watchtower directly contradicts Jesus' own words with pretty much everything they do and say. I turned to Mark 29 and read him the account of the apostles telling a man to stop driving out demons in Jesus' name. They told Jesus that they did that because the man "wasn't with them"...Instead of patting the apostles on the head and saying "well done", Jesus told them NOT to do that, because whoever isn't against us- is for us. I told the Witless that we both know the Watchtower judges every other group besides itself as satanic, so why would they do that when Jesus himself basically said not to be judging others as to who has God's favor? He just stuttered and had nothing to say.
We continued to talk about other things. I told him the Watchtower joined the United Nations. "I don't believe that." He said. I told him it's well documented on the UN's website, and that he doesn't have to take my word for it.
He also didn't believe that voting was now a conscience issue.
We also talked about the horrible medical advice, no vaccinations, organ transplants, etc. I asked him if this was GOD's organization, if I lived back in '78 and my little girl needed a kidney transplant- that in order to be "Loyal to Jehovah" (and I used air quotes when speaking to him) that she would have to die a slow horrible death of renal failure. But then in 1980 it would have been a conscience issue!?
His reply?
"But there would be the resurrection."
I just stared at him in disbelief, and told him to "Listen to what you are saying man!" Life is more precious than that!
"...But it wouldn't matter, because there would be the resurrection."
I said "But, what if there really isn't? Then what did these people die for?"
He promptly made tracks out of there after that exchange. I talked to him for almost 45 minutes. It reinforced to me the fact that Witlesses are indeed brainwashed and have immense difficulty thinking for themselves. He was a nice enough guy, I would talk to him again. It just makes me sad that the cult can prey on seemingly decent people like that.
My wife talked to the guy before I did, and she told me he started saying that only the Witlesses go out there and preach "the good neuz, unlike Churches where the people just show up on sunday." My wife asked him if he had ever been to a Christian church. He said no. She told him that he really offended her by saying such a thing. She told him about all the different outreach programs and missionary's our churches support, so for him to say such a thing was "highly ignorant".
This encounter with the JW underlined to me first hand just how much they value life. It's certainly is a dangerous cult.
