This is why I stopped first going out in service, and gradually stopped going to the meetings.
When I was young, my grandfather was like next thing to holy in my opinion, and really enjoyed the occasional time when my parents would send me to vist him. One time I was looking through some old bound volumes and issues of really old lit that he had upstairs in a bedroom and saw to my amazement stuff like the ban on vaccinations, 1925, and other doctrine that had been since been changed. I never gave it much thought until the early 70's when one day I was thinking why are we so intent on teaching this or that doctrine to "interested" persons if it's just going to be changed someday anyway, specifically 1975, which I was starting to doubt due to remembering the time I was going through grandpa's old lit
But even then, it still never occured to me that the fact doctrine gets changed seriously challenges the idea of the Society being God's "channel" or as being Spirit "directed" or whatever they call it now. Cognitive dissonance I guess...
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