Forgot about this one I did about two years ago. Found it on Kent's site. Thanks Kent! It's for the newbies who care about babies:
Will U Cry 4 the Babies? http://www.hourglass2.org/wwwboard/messages/304951.html
Posted by Farkel on December 15, 2000 at 22:47:40
The Watchtower Printing Corporation has created a serious dilemma for themselves with all of their statements over the decades by stating that only faithful Jehovah's Witnesses (loyal to the ever-changing WTS) and their unaccountable children will be saved at Armageddon. Accountable children of JW parents (as defined by the Watchtower Printing Corporation) will be toast if they are not baptized and toeing the Party line on that fateful day. I know this for a fact, because at the tender age of 12 and after years of indoctrination from the litterachure and the platform I was convinced I was accountable because I knew what was in store for me if I didnt become baptized: I would be worm-fodder because Armageddon was so close. I got baptized as a result of that fear. That was forty years ago and I am now a grandfather. Armageddon is "even closer, though. Phlooooooooot!
Dubs will not generally tell the truth when they are confronted with the question, Do you believe that ONLY Jehovahs Witnesses will be saved at Armageddon? They always come up with some excuse like, Well, thats not for us to say. Only Jehovah can read hearts, even though their literature says exactly the opposite. When a dub makes that excuse and are then further questioned with, So does that mean you believe that some non-JWs will survive that battle?, they reply with Well, thats not for us to say. Typical doubletalk.
In recent years the WT magazine has not been so bold in brazenly stating that faithful JWs will be the only ones saved, but they have not officially repudiated their position on it, either. That means it is still Official Watchtower Policy that ONLY loyal dubs are going to make it.
This bothered me even as a child, and especially more so as I was forced to study that masterpiece of child-abuse known as From Paradise to Paradise Regained, which was released in 1958. What about those little innocent and helpless babies?, I thought. Have you ever asked a dub that question? I have. They are almost cavalier with their typical response, Well, their parents are accountable for them just as the parents of the Canaanites were accountable for their children. They say it so coldly, and in such a nonchalant manner. Never have I seen dubs who were asked that question get tears welled up in their eyes and start to cry and grieve over all of that slaughter of children who they believe will have no chance of choice themselves.
Think about this: There will be millions of babies born on that fateful day of Armageddon, eyes not even opened, eager to suckle and take the first breaths of air in their pure, tiny lungs. At the end of the day, these babies and hundreds and hundreds upon millions like them will be fresh corpses, starting to rot and already being consumed by insects and birds. Dubs just dont seem to CARE about this very real reality in their wacky religious beliefs. Either they are so materialistic and only concerned about saving their own selfish butts and then grabbing the finest cars and homes after the battle, or they are so braindead from years of Watchtower indoctrination that they are numb to such carnage and the inherent unfairness of it all. Or both.
Ive heard some pretty ridiculous explanations from dubs who at least attempt to rationalize the insanity of it all. One common one is that these children will be later resurrected. Then why would God cause them to suffer and die in the first place?, is my next question. Their answer? Well, if they all survived Armageddon, there wouldnt be enough people to take care of them, is one lame answer they give. How STUPID is your God that he has to kill hundreds of millions of children because he cant figure out a way to have them taken care of?, I ask. This God made the heavens and the earth, and every living thing. He made millions of super-powerful angels, and millions upon millions of galaxies each of which has billions of stars, he has the ability to make mortals immortal, and he cant even make baby-sitting arrangements for those children, and has to slaughter them because he cant figure that part out? Thats not only ridiculous, thats IDIOTIC!
It gets worse. What about all the mentally-challenged people, especially severely retarded ones? Will they all get slaughtered because they didnt understand the dub message of salvation? Oh, that depends upon their parents, because like children, they are not accountable, dubs might say. Well, many of these severely retarded people are adults and even very old. Many of their parents have been dead for decades. Are these handicapped people going to get murdered by your God because their parents didnt accept the dub message decades ago before they died? Is that fair?
What about the millions and millions of infants and toddlers who are in orphanages around the world and the only parents they have are the few who administer those orphanages. Are those relatively few administrators responsible for the eternal salvation for the millions and millions of children in their care? If so, is that fair? The children have no say in this. They are helpless and their eternal lives rest upon those administrators buying dub literature and toeing the dub line. Even if some of those administrators DO become dubs, how in the world can they provide Bible studies for the hundred-or-so kids in their care? How can they dress up a hundred kids and haul them to the meetings three times a week? How can they haul a hundred kids around for field service? If they dont do all of this, according to the WTS, the kids are fried.
Now, if the WTS should ever come out and say, we believe that others who are not Jehovahs Witnesses will survive Armageddon, any reasonable person would say (including reasonable dub), then WHY IN THE HELL WOULD I EVER WANT TO BE A DUB?
As I stated at the beginning, the WTS has created quite a dilemma for themselves with the belief that only their followers will be saved. They have not and will not address issues like the ones Ive brought up because the absurdity of this doctrine will soon come to light. When confronted with the inconvenient and barbaric facts that Ive mentioned, we can expect this standard answer:
Trust in Jehovah.
You bet I will, because I certainly cant trust your idiotic leaders with ANYTHING.
Farkel