(A small exerpt from Barbara G. Harrison's book: Visions of Glory. One of the best ex-JW memoirs and you can read it online at
They [the JWs] are very very proud of producing "genuine Christians, . . . not’ rice' Christians, 'bought' with material things, as those are called who turn their children over to be raised by Christendom's missionary establishments in exchange for food. Those hearing the good news receive spiritual sustenance." [Aw, Nov. 8, 1974, p. 25J
One day the Watchtower missionaries in India called on me just after I'd returned from a small village in Andhra Pradesh, where/I'd met a priest who'd spent the best part of twenty years curing infants of roundworms. (A most unglamorous job; but roundworms are killers.) "Do you try to convert these people?" I'd asked him. "I baptize them," he said, /'and I try to keep them alive, and I say Mass, and I pray for the grace of the Holy Spirit on us all. . . . It's hard to love God on an empty stomach.” That day, the priest had another visitor - an Indian doctor (an atheist) who lived and worked in a nearby leprosarium. When they met, they embraced.
I told the Watchtower missionaries this story, not knowing myself exactly what the point of telling them was; and they said, "But the priest isn't preaching the good news of the kingdom. . . . And Jehovah will cure lepers in his New World." Across the way from the veranda where we were sitting, a new luxury high-rise building was going up. Tribal people from Northern India had been brought in as construction workers. They lived - ate, cooked, drank, made love - on the girders of the building. The week before, a worker had fallen to his death before my horrified children's eyes. His widow had been given 25 rupees in compensation - just enough to cremate her husband. I told the missionaries that story too; and they said, "If we knew her language, we would tell her the wonderful hope of the resurrection." They had a cup of tea and talked about God's loving-kindness.