I note that e-watchman has just confirmed that he is not disfellowshipped, despite running an 'apostate' website and having sent 1000's of letters around the US, Canada, and Bethels around the world. This from his latest mailbag questions and answers:
"As for any judicial action taken against me, no, there was none. I am still in good standing in the congregation. Apparently, the Watchtower's Legal department advised that they not take any judicial action unless I was spreading the NGO affair among the local publishers, which I wasn't and do not intend to. "
I must admit I am dumbstruck to learn that the Society have decided not to disfellowship him. Cripes, he has his own 'apostate' website bashing the Society leadership and has sent thousands of letters everywhere with his real name on them. The twisted reasoning seems to be that because he's done nothing locally and hasn't caused divisions in his own congregations, that he can remain in good standing? Bizarre!
Now what disturbs me is not that he hasn't been disfellowshipped, because I don't think someone should be disfellowshipped just for having different interpretations about prophecy and speaking calmly about them, but what really gets my goat is how the Society have disfellowshipped 1000's of persons in the past for merely speaking to others about things they disagree with from the Society, yet e-watchman gets off scott-free! How twisted is this?
I have heard it said by someone else that e-watchman could well be in league with one or more members of the Governing Body and secretly supported by prominent persons in the Watchtower Society. The fact that the legal department have advised his local elders to leave him alone could well be seen by some as evidence of that.
Is this evidence that the Society are going soft on their hardline 1914 interpretations etc and that something is brewing at Headquarters ? Are they setting a dangerous precedent for themselves to not disfellowship someone like e-watchman? Or are they just worried about making him a mayrter in his local area? Either way this is just yet another example of the grossly double standards of the Society.