Hybridous,
Wow, do I agree with your statement. When I was a JW, here's a list of things I didn't believe, but wouldn't have stated it to 'the faithful':
1. That millions of babies and children would be slaughtered.
2. That you get 'a hundredfold' mothers brothers and sisters in the Christian cong. You get squat.
3. That everyone outside the org was wicked.
4. That the violence in nature was in any way connected to a creator, especially considering the dinasours that lived before humans, and were following the same eat-and-be-eaten scenario. IMO, it fits evolution not creation. And certainly gives the lie to Gen. 1:30 where it says all creation would eat vegetation. Never happened!
I'm fairly certain that you and I and the others here were not unique. Also, many others are of equal intelligence and can figure it out, but it hasn't coalesced into enough to leave.
TMS,
Your list sums it up pretty well as far as the wicked in the WTS estimation.
Of course, the chapter at Ezekiel 18 pretty much contradicts saying unresponsible children would die, because it says specifically that neither should the son die for the sins of his father nor vice-versa, but it is 'the soul that is sinning that will die.'
If that is the rule for natural, 'Adamic' death, how much more so should it be for the 'second death,' reserved for Satan and his demons, fighters against God, adulterers, murderers, etc., than for innocents? What kind of being would kill for all eternity innocent children?
The answer is obviously that no kind of being would do that--no decent being that it.
The WTS stated once that people become like the god they worship (or was it the government?). The JWs become heartless also when they deem it necessary.
It's all very offensive, once the blinders are off.
Pat
