Hello!
A few days ago someone posted an article in the NY Times, I believe, that talked about fundamentalist Christianity and how its rhetoric about the gruesome destruction of non-believers (as depicted, for example, in the Left Behind series) was eerily similar to the attitudes in extremist Islam.
Since leaving the Witnesses, I have been angered at their hateful rhetoric, and especially at how they masquerade as a benign, loving religion when they really treat non-believers with contempt when it comes to actual interactions. It's passive-agressive, especially since they claim that it is not them, but God, who will do the destruction. "We just want the best for gay people. We want them to convert so that God doesn't obliterate them like he did the bastards in Sodom and Gomorrah."
So today while listening to NPR coverage of the 9/11 commission press conference, I decided to borrow a phrase from that commission's chairman, and place an ad with some teeth. It's a back page ad in a weekly newspaper here. It says:
The Watchtower: A "hate-filled ideology"?Ask JWs about the gruesome fate they see for 6 billion non-JWs close at hand!
I'm not sure whether the editor will allow this ad, but at any rate I submitted it. Hopefully it'll see press next week!
SNG