ALTHOUGH CBS, DATELINE NBC ETC HAVE ALSO CORRECTLY DOCUMENTED the child molestation situation involving the Watchtower Society (WTS) over Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs), this, which is also shocking, is to even better inform the general public including medical personnel, JWs themselves and persons studying Bible subjects with them. Your sharing copies of this will can help save many lives even as others have already told us.
CHRISTMAS: The WTS teaches that Christ was likely born about October 2, so why ignore that this means that he must have been conceived 9 months before, meaning in late December. Similarly, why insist that Christmas came from the pagan Saturnalia when John 10:22-3 says Christ also celebrated the Jewish Festival of Dedication or Lights, i.e. Hannukah, which first began December 25 but has varied since because lunar-based, and which includes lights, tree ornaments, singing and gifts?
BIRTHDAYS: You must read all three verses of Job 1:3, 3:1 and 3:3 but after doing so will see that Job's kids celebrated their days of birth, meaning birthdays with Job's approval. Another reasoning point is: doesn't the Bible itself state that angels celebrate Christ's own birth! The figure of Santa Claus is from Nicholas, a famous Christian gift-giver who lived in the Middle Ages, not a wizard or pagan god. Why call compromises holidays that attacked and replaced paganisms, and besides, doesn’t Colossians 12:16 says let none judge you about a holiday! The WTS teaching that Christmas is definitely pagan and must not be celebrated because two persons were killed in the Bible during birthday situations ignores the facts and destroys normal family ties.
SEVERE SHUNNING CALLED "DISFELLOWSHIPPING:" 1 Corinthians 6:1 only says judge "trivial" things as in business, James 2:4-13 calls judging harmful, and Paul says the "majority" (2 Corinthians 2:6), followed his advice to shun a wrongdoer, meaning a minority chose not to and yet he nowhere condemns them. Christ said families would be divided by some members doing good and others doing wrongs but never ever advocated destruction of families. So we ask why the formal Judicial Committes destroying families via numerous formal renderings of disfellowshipping which is severe shunning?
BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS: Most normal identical twins use a shared placenta to transfuse blood to each other, showing that God Himself uses transfusions. Although Acts 15:20, which the WTS singles out, says abstain from blood, 1 Samuel 14:32-5 says Saul's entire army ate "unBLED" meat to not starve and no verses show God not forgiving them. Too, Christ (Mat 7) says God also forgave David's eating temple holy bread and that God wants Mercy Not Sacrifice. The May 22, 1994 Awake tells of 26 JW kids who died without transfusions, and by common sense in massive bleeding as in car wrecks blood expanders won't save lives. Also, an estimated 3 JWs die daily earthwide from the WTS’s unscriptural policy (Blood On The Altar by David Reed)! Why don't WTS heads teach members these additional facts? Why should anyone's kids, grandkids etc be endangered? Medical doctors etc are encouraged to get this information to JWs and those studying with them so as to save lives!
CROSS: Human remains and inscriptions show archaeologists the stauros was a cross not stake, Dr F Zugibe's research shows suffocation would be in minutes if on a stake but in hours if on outstretched cross per Luke 23:44 and Matthew 27:45-6. Leaders call a cross is a repugnant murder weapon but Paul said boast in the stauros as a symbol of resurrection over death. Read Galatians 6:14, 1Corinthians 1:17-18.
SURVEILANCE TO KEEP THE ORGANIZATION CLEAN: Done mostly on the quiet by some JW elders and their cronies, surreptious surveillance has been done even on rank-and-file members, some of which is documented in the book Crisis of Conscience. Members are routinely told to report on each other "to keep the congregations clean" even though the Bible point-blank condemns "busy-bodying," comparing it to the crime of murder.
Regular JWs not allowed to read Judicial Committee "sin files" on themselves, many not even knowing they exist; often with misinformation.(photos: freeminds.org) See also a picture of the WTS's Pay Attention To Yourselves And All The Flock book on p 232 of the Insight book that elders have but which non-elders are not allowed to read. Judicial committee sin files on a person are supposedly to be destroyed after 7 years, but even when they sometimes are locally destroyed, the permanent file is kept forever in Brooklyn and, as said, is subject to abuse and falsification. Page 302 in the WTS's Daniel book and pages 88 and 651 in the Proclaimers book show photos of the swords and the cross-with-crown-and-wreath used by not only some Christian churches but also by the secretive Masons while some old WT books also have the winged sun god Ra on front covers - which never ever was a Christian symbol. Many regular JWs find it hard to believe but in fact Elders are encouraged to use "tested and true" "Theocratic Warfare" tactics for testing and training non-elders as to fitness, which includes misleading or false statements.
TRINITY: WTS heads say the Trinity is believing Father, Son, Spirit are one "identical" person yet most churches accept it as three totally different entities or persons forming one "Godship" (Ro 1:20) in which the Son and Spirit share age, power, knowledge inherited from God the Father just as an acorn may be only one day old but also have its genes inheriting its ancestral oak tree's age, capacity and information. The Catholic and most major Protestant churches do not even fit the WTS's description of the sameness trinity belief which is that Jesus the Son is identical to Jehovah the Father.
ACCUSED CHILD MOLESTORS ON THE WATCHTOWER SOCIETY'S GOVERNING BODY? Elders often hide local scandals, but also note that Leo Greenlees was a child molester who sat on the worldwide WTS Governing Body. He was reassigned but never disfellowshipped (excommunicated/shunned) in the 1980s (jehovahs-witness.com in the archives, etc). Child abuse coverups by Watchtower Society (WTS) associates will cause costly, organizationally destructive court costs and has already brought grave reproach including articles in "Christianity Today" magazine, investigations by Dateline NBC in 2002, an airing on CBS in April 2003 etc. Copies of letters to the Bodies Of Elders which regular members aren't shown, including on child abuse etc, have been posted at http://www.silentlambs.org, freeminds.org etc.
HARASSMENT: Some regular JW members in places where illegal child molestation has occurred and elsewhere have complained of physical harassment (poking, shoving etc), platform talks with hints that "Jehovah’s eyes are everywhere" and complained that elders have divulged details of their (the non-elders) most private conversations and bedroom doings with marriage mates - strongly suggestive of wiretapping. Although WTS articles told elders not to “police” bedrooms in 1978, in a later during the week night-time talk (but not in writing) in 1983 elders told regular members "The Practice" of some marital intimacies can lead to Expulsion. (discussed also on Jehovahs-Witness.com) Some regular JWs absent for that evening's talk have indeed been "expelled" (harassed/trained) without ever even being clearly made aware why it was done.
This is an ironic contrast to the pedophilia coverups. Notice that WTS "Insight" book articles are on all Bible books except for the Song of Solomon (also called Canticles) which has much positive marital imagery out of line with the WTS Gov Body’s own views of what is “holy.” Instructed to keep such things "in-house," when asked most elders deny the 1983-onwards policy to protect the Gov Body. Pat Garza has publicly alleged to news media in front of Brooklyn headquarters that Ted Jaracz of the Gov Body molested her and other children when a District Overseer in Los Angeles, and he has refused to refute what she said even when it was openly posted on the internet, leaving big question marks.
UNITED NATIONS: WTS heads teach God does not like the United Nations but until exposed, during 1991-2001 they were a formal UN associate (called a Non-Governmental Organization), not just a UN library card associate as claimed. Read the November 22, 1998 Awake magazine very closely. Also see http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00577 by highly reputable BBC writer Stephen Bates.
WHY THIS IS NEEDED: Not only do more people need to know about these things but also JWs are told they must not read such material if given it by hand, but when e/mailed it most do quietly read it, some then exit, feel angry at first then quietly decrease donations to the WTS, if not baptized a JW stay that way etc, some form independent nonWTS groups, go back to past beliefs or associate with less reproachful churches. Please make and share copies of this to help improve and save lives!