A more improtant question is, how many will bother to watch it in the first place?
Regarding the 'shock-horror' reactions of some on this site about the DVD, perspective is a helpful thing. If you want really scarey, disturbing frightening indoctrination, go to some of the fundamentalist churches in the deep south of the USA. Richard Dawkin interviewed the pastor of one such group who expected parents in his congregation to bring along their children to a "live performance" (kind of like a ghost train but not for laughs) of what it would be like to spend eternity in hell. The performance included actors dressed in satanic colours writhing in agony, lightning strobe lights, screams, pleadings for mercy and maniacal laughter from Satan as more and more people were thrown into the pit of fire. The voiceover made it painfully clear to the little darlings that this fate awaited them if they did not dedicate their lives to Christ.
Moreover, compared to the damning pictures in the children's storybook published by the Watchtower in the 1950s, "From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained", the DVD is light weight. Even Mom does her nicest sweetly intoned concerned-routine. The silkily-smooth American accent should have me in stitches - but even I'm soothingly mesmerized. "Talk more Mom, I'm hooked". Memories of my own dear JW mother who never raised her voice, was the most sweetly reasonable even under pressure and so loved all her children.
"Jehovah will be sad", pines the American JW Mom. "Ahhhhh, poor Jehovah", I mutter in a sarcastic undertone. "Jehovah hates magic" continues Mom. "Hey Mom", I continue under my breath, "that's just one of a gazillion things this party-poop, one true monster hates". But I'm a good boy. I give the answers she's desperate to hear. I play the game. It's not a new game. Children have played it for generations. I go outside and dream of Sparlock and plot my new evil game of deception. Sparlock is now in my mind. I play with him and no one but my friends know. I survive. I learn to be resilient. I get over it. I've got bigger fish to fry.
Mom certainly does her sweetest, loveliest vocal intonations and magic-minded Caleb is hooked like a squirming sardine. Child abuse? Come on - get into the real world of abuse before answering that flabbily over-reactive question.
I should imagine that the "enormity" of its anti-magic message will be lost on many JWs and probably ignored by many.
This will be one of many dreary anti-climaxes for the Watchtower. Just when they think they've secured compliance, another damn JW kid lights a rocket or sports a spider-man suit. Meanwhile, in Syria....
