This has been brought up before and all it means is that the WT and Awake are the most PRINTED religious magazines in the world and certainly not the most read.
I was a JW for 32 years and I cant tell you how many mags I had to dump in waste bins because the family couldn`t place them over the years.And I certainly wasn`t alone in doing this .
I would hazard a guess that about 75% of magazines printed ever reached the public and even fewer were ever read by anyone.
Even congregations I was in had designated months when the publishers were given x amount of mags to give away free because they were overstocked and had become out of date.
This was when we asked for contributions for the magazines.
Even back then 30-40 years ago I said why put a date on the mags ? Isn`t it a truth for all time ? apparently not.
What the fall guy said is true It's only a publishing statistic.
The illusion is when you have anywhere near upwards of 8 million volunteers distributing these mags ,whatever the X number is and you have a publishing house that Prints X amount of mags.has no bearing on how many Christians are reading these magazines .
Mainline Christians do not consider Jehovah`s Witnesses christian ,the Catholics and the mainstream Protestant churches would not read JW publications and the smaller sects are very one eyed they are not going to read anything from another sect.
The only people that do read ,no correction, I should say take a magazine from a JW is a non practicing christian of many faiths who do so thinking they are helping a charity cause .
And their is no indication that anybody ever reads them .
