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16/10/94C). There was an old lady with horrible garlic breath and a retarded son. The Witnesses avoided her. But since they were taught that we are all equal in God's sight, and equally lovable, they couldn't take the responsibility for disliking her. They'd say, "What will people of goodwill think about her? She'll turn people away from The Truth." So they felt justified in ignoring her. She was poor and unattractive, and she had an even more grossly unattractive son. She had a dogged determination to be a Witness, but an imperfect grasp of Witness theology. It was a deadly combination. (Pg.79).
A young woman
who had been a full-time field worker (a "pioneer") came to Bethel headquarters
after her husband had died of a sudden heart attack and her son had,
accidentally it was supposed, hanged himself. She was put to work in the laundry
room, operating a giant press. She was a perpetually smiling, sweet, singularly
unassertive woman who seemed to have put her personal tragedies behind her. One
day, her glasses slipped off and were smashed in the press. She began to howl
and scream and cry that immemorial cry An old man, who had been at Bethel for thirty years, grew senile. His senility took the form of his muttering obscenities at the dining-room table. He was given two "warnings," which his hardened arteries obviously couldn't assimilate, and then ordered to leave. He had no resources, financial or emotional. He was last seen begging in downtown Brooklyn. (Pg.80). Followers of The Christ would not allow this. It was the Nazis who tried to create a master race of young healthy people, not our Lord Jesus. The Watchtower Society operates a small fruit farm in Washington, New Jersey, and a grain farm in South Lansing, New York. A 1,698-acre farm near Newburgh, New York, provides food for the 1,400 headquarters workers… And there are herds of beef cattle… and dairy cattle; and pigs... Beef is dressed here, bacon smoked, pig jowls are steamed in enormous kettles to be used as liverwurst... It takes... 60 pigs for a pork-chop meal. (Pg.82). Those "eating the flesh of the pig and the loathsome thing, even the jumping rodent, they will all together reach their end," is the utterance of Jehovah." (From Isaiah 66:17). Rank-and-file Witnesses believe absolutely that the Society's stewardship is beyond reproach; they ask no questions. To question the Lord's "governing body," we are told, is to doubt the Lord Himself. (Pg.83). It is because unsealed 'elders' appointed by the 'governing body' of JWs are the apostate "man of lawlessness" that the activities of this sect are being revealed by the Spirit of the Lord's mouth, before they are annihilated "by the radiance of his coming." (2 Thess 2:3 NWT & 2:8 NEB).
A community leader expressed the majority
sentiment: "While they're smiling and peddling sweet salvation, they're acting
like godzilla, gobbling up property, evicting people as if we were squatters on
land which will eventually belong to them anyhow (Cont. on Page 16/10/94E).
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