The bible, in particular the New Testament, cannot be depended upon to mean what it so clearly does mean in plain, common English. One must apply a form of Orwellian double-speak, and even that changes on a regular basis.
Intelligent people must prostitute their own mental acuity, substituting therefore the bleating of the common herd. There is no "intelligensia" among JWs; they're not welcome. No thinking allowed.
A common, ordinary person with the usual amount of honesty and ethics must abandon his own God-given moral sensitivity and conscience, and substitute instead the low moral standard set by a group of a dozen or so senile octagenarians in Broklynn.
A person could go on and on and on about the negative aspects of the WTBTS, but sooner or later it would become boring, like shooting fish in a barrel; or it would become depressing to realize that at one time in our lives we followed this crap like it was mana from heaven.
And that's just why we need a "full suit of [spiritual] armor" to protect us from the depradations of this roaring lion, looking around for someone to devour.
francois