it has been aledeged by a jw on the aol boards that the WTBTS does not use the word "whore".
first thing i thought when i heard this is, "oh yes they do, i heard it said from the stage at assemblies"!
well a quick search of their cd-rom brings a host of references to the great "whore".
take a lookie see:
*** Rbi8 1551 Bible Words Indexed *** WHORE . See HARLOT(S), PROSTITUTE(S).
*** g72 12/8 29 Watching the World *** TheChurchsRadicalSons
Just eight years ago Catholic scholar Garry Wills devoted over 80 percent of his book PoliticsandCatholicFreedom to defending the Church as mother and teacher. Now, Wills current book BareRuinedChoirs:Doubt,ProphecyandRadicalReligion makes an abrupt about-face. He quotes the Churchs so-called radical sons, priests, who, while acknowledging the Churchs errors nevertheless stay with it, as saying: Yes, shes a whore , but shes our mother. Reviewing Wills current book, G. North pointedly asks in the WallStreetJournal: If she is a whore , why would her sons want to be linked to the family, but if she is not a whore , why would she tolerate the presence of such sons?
*** w89 4/1 3 A Mystery-Who Is the Harlot Babylon the Great? *** Now this Babylon the Great must be a formidable woman, for the account says in Re 17 verse 1 that she sits on many waters. What does that mean? Gods angel explained to John: The waters that you saw, where the harlot is sitting, mean peoples and crowds and nations and tongues. (Revelation 17:15) Without a doubt this is a prostitute with worldwide influence. But she is no commonplace whore . She is the mother of the harlots, the madam of the institution. When it comes to fornication, she gives the orders. But she also has special clients.
*** w89 4/1 5 The Great Harlot Unmasked *** BabylontheWarmonger
In accordance with the prophetic vision, Babylon the Great is the great whore that has led nations, peoples, and tribes into bloody wars, crusades, and vendettas, blessing them with incantations, holy water, prayers, and fiery patriotic speeches.Revelation 18:24.
*** w89 4/15 3 False Religion Plays the Harlot *** FalseReligionPlaystheHarlot
SOME call it the oldest professionthat of the harlot, prostitute, or whore . As commonly used, all these words have the same meaning, referring to an immoral woman who sells the use of her body to men. Yet, there was a time when this was regarded as an honored calling!
*** w88 4/1 24 God's Judgments Must Be Declared *** ChristendomUnmasked
14 Over the last seven decades, in conjunction with proclaiming the glorious hope of Jehovahs incoming Kingdom, Jehovahs Witnesses have spread around the world a veritable flood of denunciation and judgment. In hundreds of millions of frank, hard-hitting Bible-based publications, they have exposed Christendom as the most powerful force in the religious whore , Babylon the Great, denounced in Revelation chapters 17 and 18. (See BabylontheGreatHasFallen!GodsKingdomRules!, pages 576-615, published in 1963 by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.)
*** w85 6/1 24 How Priceless Your Friendship, O God! *** Without hesitation Sister Wilcox, with the perfect English of a professor at her command, would reply: I am here to tell you about the old whore of Revelation who is riding the beast. (Revelation 17:1-5) Managers would wince and adjust themselves in their seats, wondering what was coming next. She would paint them a vivid picture of the end of this system of things. The reaction was almost always decisive. They wanted whatever she had. Daily we would place literally cartons of literature. My job was to play the phonograph whenever she asked for it to be played, and to be as fearless and as courageous as possible when she was speaking.
*** w83 6/15 26 Insight on the News *** InsightontheNews
Whore ofBabylon
A feature column in the Canadian newsmagazine Macleans recently declared: It may be time for all good men, Christian or otherwise, to take the offensive against those elements in churches of all denominations that have crossed the line separating legitimate critics of society from enemies of the state. Putting the matter in historical perspective, columnist Barbara Amiel went on to say:
An observer might be forgiven for suggesting that the church, in this century, seems to have found its Whore of Babylon in the persona of whoever happened to be the strongest dictator of the moment. The actions of the Vatican, for example, have ranged from common cause with Franco in Spain to dtente with Hitler and Mussolini. Then, like a prostitute, when the Nazis finally were ground into the dust, elements within all major churches . . . started the same flirtation with communism.
But are those with whom these clerical activists flirt actually the Whore of Babylon, or is it the other way around? Clearly, the real great whore , called Babylon the great in the Bible, is the one with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornicationpolitically promiscuous religion. The Bible goes on to show that, ultimately, irritation (such as that voiced by the Macleans columnist) on the part of these kings will turn to a hate that will kindle destruction of the Whore of Babylonburn her to ashes.Revelation 17:1-5, 12, 16, TheNewEnglishBible.
Loving theLie
*** w82 1/1 12-13 "Lord, Open the King of England's Eyes" *** Tyndales marginal notes on the Pentateuch were even more provocative than his notes on the Christian Greek Scriptures. He seized the opportunity to emphasize what he felt was a contradiction between some Church practices and Gods laws. Note the following examples: Numbers 23:8, How shall I curse whom God curseth not [margin: The pope can tell howe]; Deuteronomy 23:18, Nether brynge the hyre of an whore nor the pryce of a dogge in to the housse of the Lorde thy God [margin: The pope will take tribute of them yet and bisshopes, and abottes desire no better tenants]; Deuteronomy 11:19, Talke of them (my wordes) when
*** w81 8/1 11 Insight on the News *** InsightontheNews
Warped ViewofSexualMorality
Fornication or adultery unhampered by contraceptives is a lesser evil than a husband and wife using a form of contraception during intercourse, said Catholic philosopher Elizabeth Anscomb of the University of Cambridge in England. She stated: An act of contraceptive intercourse is an act of rather gross unchastity. . . . Marriage doesnt make it respectable. If youre going to do that sort of thing, its better to go do it with a whore , not with your wife. She declared that the Catholic Church always considered contraception as a breach of chastity.
*** w76 3/1 148-9 God's Mercy to Mankind in Our Twentieth Century *** 22 Do we feel shocked at Hoseas being started off on his prophetic career with such a command as that? However, Jehovah was not commanding Hosea to marry a woman who was already a whore . The woman whom Hosea is told to take to himself as a wife is not called a fornicating woman (or, wife), but Jehovah calls her a wife of fornication [literally, fornications]. Furthermore, since this woman was to be used as an illustration of Jehovahs figurative earthly wife, she would not fit the picture by being a wanton, whorish woman from the start. Jehovah married or took in marriage a morally clean, virgin wife for the purpose of bringing forth to Him legitimate children in a spiritual sense. So the expression children of fornication is prophetic of the kind of children that He would get in a spiritual way, the kind of children that they would turn out to be. Why so? Because, as Jehovah says, by fornication the land positively turns from following Jehovah. The land here meant was that of ten-tribe Israel.
*** w64 12/1 728 Out of the Tombs to a "Resurrection of Judgment" *** 6 The world empire of false religion symbolized as Babylon the Great will have no resurrection from her coming destruction. So, according to Dr. Robert Youngs literal Bible translation, Revelation 18:8, 20 and Re 19:2 read: In fire she shall be utterly burned, because strong is the Lord God who is judging her. Be glad over her, O heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, because God did judge your judgment on her! Because true and righteous are His judgments, because He did judge the great whore who did corrupt the earth in her whore dom, and He did avenge the blood of His servants at her hand.
*** w61 9/15 576 Questions from Readers *** Could you help me find the statement, supposedly in the Bible, that it is better for a man to put his seed in the belly of a whore than to cast it upon the ground? M.P.,UnitedStates.
This is a question that has been repeatedly asked and almost invariably it has been quoted by a Roman Catholic. According to the Knights of Columbus Information Service, this statement does not represent the Roman Catholic viewpoint. But on the other hand a priest, speaking in behalf of St. Patricks Cathedral in New York, observed that it was more natural to put ones seed into the belly of a whore than to spill it on the ground although there was no scripture to that effect. This is the type of thinking employed by Roman Catholic priests in certain parts of Italy, for they have gone on record as excusing fornication and adultery so long as birth control was not practiced.
*** w50 9/15 324 Ancient Patterns for the Present *** Nor should the truth-seeker in this time of the end mistakenly think that the prophecies foretelling Babylons doom were completely fulfilled in the year 539 B.C. Especially in view of the fact that more than 600 years later a vivid description of BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH, was given in Revelation, chapters 17 and 18. The judgment of doom entered against antitypical Babylon, the great whore with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication and who has made the inhabitants of the earth drunk on the wine of her fornication, will shortly be carried out.Rev. 18:9, 10. From the foregoing it is clear that the Hebrew Scriptures are not mere ancient history, but contain types and shadows of things now coming to pass upon this twentieth-century generation. The entire Bible is profitable for our study, and none have authority to chop off as useless three-fourths of its instruction.2 Tim. 3:16, 17; Rev. 22:19; Deut. 4:2.
*** g93 9/8 12 Religious Crisis in the Netherlands *** The Bible foretold a drying up of support for Christendom, along with other religions, in our day. (Revelation 16:12; 17:15) But it also foresaw that some would abandon false religion not merely because of dissatisfaction or disillusionment but because of a positive purpose. The Bible prophetically urges: Get out of her, my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins. (Revelation 18:4) The her referred to is the symbolic religious whore , Babylon the Great, which embraces all the religions of the world, including those of modern Christendom. The my people are sincere seekers of truth who leave Babylon the Great because they want to serve God in the way Jesus taught. Christendom has strayed so far from true Christianity that sincere people must get out in order to serve God acceptably.
*** g72 12/8 29 Watching the World *** TheChurchsRadicalSons
Just eight years ago Catholic scholar Garry Wills devoted over 80 percent of his book PoliticsandCatholicFreedom to defending the Church as mother and teacher. Now, Wills current book BareRuinedChoirs:Doubt,ProphecyandRadicalReligion makes an abrupt about-face. He quotes the Churchs so-called radical sons, priests, who, while acknowledging the Churchs errors nevertheless stay with it, as saying: Yes, shes a whore , but shes our mother. Reviewing Wills current book, G. North pointedly asks in the WallStreetJournal: If she is a whore , why would her sons want to be linked to the family, but if she is not a whore , why would she tolerate the presence of such sons?
*** re 265 36 The Great City Devastated *** 23 Is it really so urgent to flee out of Babylon the Great, withdrawing from membership in the worlds religions and making a complete separation? It is, for we need to take Gods view of this age-old religious monstrosity, Babylon the Great. He did not mince words in calling her the great harlot. So now the voice out of heaven informs John further concerning this whore : For her sins have massed together clear up to heaven, and God has called her acts of injustice to mind. Render to her even as she herself rendered, and do to her twice as much, yes, twice the number of the things she did; in the cup in which she put a mixture put twice as much of the mixture for her. To the extent that she glorified herself and lived in shameless luxury, to that extent give her torment and mourning. For in her heart she keeps saying, Is it a queen, and I am no widow, and I shall never see mourning. That is why in one day her plagues will come, death and mourning andfamine,and she will be completely burned with fire, because Jehovah God, who judged her,is strong. Revelation 18:5-8.
Edited by - zev on 1 January 2003 12:29:10