Can any Christian imagine Jesus Christ taking the Pharisees to court and complaining to the Sanhedrin:
"Stop these men from quoting me accurately--it is embarassing!"? No. Why? The Pharisees twisted words for their own benefit and opposed Jesus publicly for exposing their errors as errors of men spouting human opinion and passing it off as God's authority.
The evil men took the righteous man to court and not the other way around. The bible testament makes clear that anyone speaking in God's name has a heavy burden placed upon them which results in a heavy judgement should wrongdoing result.
Today the Watchtower Society of Jehovah's Witnesses has brought a lawsuit against an Internet site asking for damages of $100,000 because they have been embarassed by the intention of the Quotes site to expose their policies and writings publicly to shame.
The Quotes site offers no evaluations or destructive attacks in return. What is the harm they present to the public eye that has so stricken the Watchtower with fear and shame? The Quotes site merely presents that ACTUAL WORDS contained in the books, magazines and other publications publicly distributed for over one hundred years by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society itself!
Yes, it is the ACTUAL WORDS printed by this Corporation that have come back to shame them and embarass them! Naturally, they sue. Who wants to be exposed as a fool to the world at large when you have passed your corporation off as the "mouthpiece of God" for all these decades and made the enormous claim of being the "only true religion"?
The early years of the Watchtower were filled with virulent words of criticism for other religious institutions attacked as enemies of God and Satanic minions spouting human opinion but containing counterfeit words. And now, the Watchtower's chickens have come home to roost. What goes around comes around and they are doing it TO THEMSELVES.
The claim of the lawsuit is most revealing as to content. Instead of being the words of God and the whisperings of his Holy Spirit, the writings of the Watchtower is admitted to be ORIGINAL CONTENT and intellectual property of the men who thought it all up!
What a blow to claims of Divine Authority!
How can men claim OWNERSHIP of God's words? They can't and no lawsuit would be possible. So, by thus admitting they pull their writings out of thin air (very thin) the injury is to their creative property as opinion and nothing more. Watchtower writings are mere fanciful works of art and imagination like any other works of ficition or entertainment.
In the past, before the advent of the Internet, the Watchtower kept a tight grip on older publications constantly revising them when errors became evident. Blurring the past has been a frenzied preoccupation. But, rewriting history is no longer possible. The Internet allows the scanning and printing of error and side by side comparisons of one policy set against contradictory later policy reveals the truth about THE TRUTH. Constant revision is only necessary when you are wrong. And the Watchtower Corporation has a 100% track record of error in its predictions about Armageddon, the resurrection to heaven, end times in general and day to day policy.
This duplicty is exposed by the Quotes site for every eye to behold.
No wonder the Watchtower is suing for $100,000!
There is no question of libel which defense would be proving a lie. There is no libel here only truth about THE TRUTH.
At last the Watchtower must tell the Truth about their opinions passed off as Divine!
Let the chips fall where they may.
Terry