The Watchtower can't establish clear evidence that birthdays , as a natural event, are part of 'false' religion.
So, they try to associate them with negative events in the Bible and condemn them thereby.
The trouble with this reasoning is that it is foolish to condemn any practise arbitrarily simply because someone can
find something negative correlated with it in Bible events. ( how about chronology and false prophecy?)
Or, how about dogs?
The Bible is far more negative about dogs than birthdays. In the Law, homosexual prostitutes were referred to as 'dogs'.
Unclean people ( Gentiles) were insulted as 'dogs'. All manner of uncleanness and animalistic desire were associated with
dogs. Perhaps the only positive reference to dogs comes as they lick the sores of Lazarus - and even that underscores
their uncleanness ( he tasted salty).
How about pigs and pork? Does the Bible correlate anything positive with that? ( you know already!) Are there more
negative scriptures about pigs than birthdays? ( Yep!)
I have come to wonder if the Society's continued 'weasel-worded' counsel on birthdays could be motivated by a deeper
fear of what marking birthdays does:
It reminds you of how old you are - and the passage of time.
In an organization desperate to maintain control , reminding people of how many years they've spent peddling magazines
and waiting for Armageddon ( Soon!, always Soon!), might not be a good idea.
metatron