What the Watchtower Society Doesn't Want You to Know

Former Jehovah's Witnesses would make great employees for the renovation section of a Bunnings store. They already know first-hand the structural integrity of every door...slammed in their face, of course. But what drives ordinary people to sign up to a religion that involves a life of knocking and knock backs? \r\n\r\nChristian missionary Wilbur ...Read MoreRead more about Former Jehovah's Witnesses would make

Lingle sticks his foot in the door of this religion and gently takes readers inside its core beliefs. He covers topics such as: the history of its leadership, the failed prophecies, weaknesses of their bible translation, their strange belief that Jesus is Michael the archangel and why Armageddon isn't as pleasant as members expect. He also uncovers little nuggets like "double dipping" by central headquarters. The Watchtower Society not only asks Witnesses to pay for the magazines that they push on householders, but it also asks that any money raised be donated back to the society. \r\n\r\nLingle writes respectively with more than the inquiring Christian in mind. It's clear he's also targeting Witnesses, citing their own bible and publications, which record decades of flip-flopping decrees supposedly exclusively revealed to headquarters by their god, who has nothing to do with the real one.\r\n\r\nEasily digestible, this book could have been strengthened by publishing interviews with ex-members. The last few chapters contain a mashed together testimony of five people that doesn't work, and instead would have been more powerful if left in their own words.\r\n\r\nA good three-and-a-half-star primer to springboard into meatier works. \r\n\r\n Read LessRead less about Former Jehovah's Witnesses would make