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How would you define RELIGION, and why?
by Fernando in"judge" rutherford defined or classified all religion as "a snare and a racket" in his books "religion" and "enemies".. after rutherford's death in 1942, his protege, watchtower vice president, and aclu darling, hayden c. covington, in the early 1950's, for reasons of legal expedience and supremacist aspirations, suddenly converted the watchtower into a religion.. this was done alongside one of the most audacious, spurious and longstanding swindles of the us legal system.
this involved twisting philippians 1:7 and misrepresenting the watchtower's true nature, objectives and activities.. .
this meant that it became necessary for the watchtower to suddenly reclassify and redefine religion (w51 1/15 p. 43 new legal booklet well named; w51 8/15 p. 511 questions from readers; yb75 p. 161 part 2 "for gladys bolton...").. two new watchtower classifications were suddenly created: "true religion" and "false religion".. now "true religion" meant "true beliefs" whilst "belief" in ever changing watchtower doctrine was equated with the one "faith" of scripture.. all this while the watchtower increasingly and maliciously truncated, obfuscated and hid the liberating full "good news" (or unabridged gospel) of scripture, which it lyingly claimed (in court) that it was actually "defending and legally establishing".. how would you have defined religion before learning ttatt?.
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Biography of Pastor Russell's personal secretary - Fredrik Homer Robison (1885-1932)
by Fernando ina search of wt lib 2010 produces 16 hits for "robison" of which some refer to frederick h. robison.. this website has an independent biography:.
http://www.concordant.org/expohtml/faithfullaborers/co_laborers.html#robison.
in case of link-rot someone may want to copy the biography and paste below?.
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Aid to Bible Understanding - can you help summarise any useful sections?
by Fernando inrandall watters presents the fascinating backstory of the "aid book", and the brouhaha surrounding it, in this article:.
"the watchtower bible and tract society: the critical years 1975-1997".
so far it seems the project to research and write the "aid to bible understanding" revealed serious doctrinal and institutional flaws that the gb wanted to preserve nonetheless.. it seems what ray franz and his team were learning, and were largely blocked from presenting:.
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Three paths in life...
by Fernando inwould you agree:.
there are three main paths in life?.
secular, religious or spiritual?.
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Is the Jesus of religion conservative, and the Jesus of the New Testament liberal?
by Fernando inis the jesus of religion conservative, and the jesus of the new testament liberal?.
your thoughts?.
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Watchtower Intolerance
by Fernando infrom an article in the catholic weekly:.
watchtower intolerance.
watchtower law states: “most firmly hold and in no way doubt that every apostate or dissenter is to be destroyed at armageddon, unless before the end of his life he repents, and restored to the christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses.” .
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Graph of world population (from 10,001BC to 2015)
by Fernando inwhat do you make of this graph?.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+population+of+earth.
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Open discussion on "Spiritual Intelligence"
by Fernando init was a surprise to learn that there are quite a number of si books, and si tests, out there.. what are your thoughts on si?.
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Richard Dawkins on spirituality - please help
by Fernando ini would like to better understand what richard dawkins is saying and would appreciate your help, views and opinions, including the implications:.
"far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.
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