One of the major WTS defenders has broken with the Governing Body: Norwegian Rolf Furuli. He's published an E-book entitled My Beloved Religion—and the Governing Body. In it he claims JWs are still the only true religion but that the GB has gone bad. He proposes that the idea of a GB is not scriptural and ought to be disbanded. We all know how the 8 Warwick 'holy ones' will respond to that, and what's in store for Furuli judicially!
He claims he sent the book to the GB months ago and that since he has not heard back, he's gone public with it.
Of course, Furuli has been discussed at this forum many times before. To me he seems a bit crazy, defending things like 607, prophetic speculation, Freddy Franz's adoption of some oddball fundamentalists' view of Hebrew verb tenses, and so on. He claims all sorts of expertise in areas he knows little or nothing about. As an example of discussions about him at JWD, here's a particularly good one started by SBF from 5 years ago:
If you want the book, it's 9 Euros/$10 US/8 Pounds Sterling and can be ordered at "awatu-publishers@sf-nett.no" It is password protected not just to DL but even to open up after you've left the book and come back to it.
It has 6 chapters: The Religion of the Bible, The F&D Slave, The GB, The Extreme View on Higher Education, DFing Based on Human Commandments, and the GB's New View of the Bible. There's a sort of epilogue called My Beloved Religion, an appendix called The Theocratic Organization, and a Bibliography. Total pages is 336, no small book.
I have only touched bits of it, but Furuli seems to think that the GB have become dictatorial (well, he's got one thing right!), the average JW sheep is abused, and, as usual, Furuli has all the answers to rectify the situation. He's such a humble guy!
