Watchtower ROBOTS?

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The Watchtower organization has commented on and poked fun at organizational conformity because it forges uncreative robots rather than enthusiasts manifesting freewill.[1] Watchtower illustrates the problem this way:

Has the Watchtower organization forged robots?

Prior to 1980 the Watchtower organization made bold and emphatic statements of allegedly biblical origin that accepting organ transplantation was wrong.[2] What was the result of Watchtower exerting this teaching among Jehovah’s Witnesses?

In year 1976 a survey was conducted to ascertain the view of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The finding was unanimous rejection of transplantation.[3]

In 1980 the Watchtower organization changed its teaching on organ transplant stating a position that the Bible does not condemn organ transplantation.[4] Two Watchtower officials presented this change in teaching to the medical community this way[5]:

What was the result of this change in Watchtower teaching?

After 1980 Jehovah’s Witnesses went from unanimous rejection of transplant therapy to lining up for organ transplantation.[6]:

Basically, Watchtower has instituted a business model whereby it trains associates to jump when it says jump and sit when it says sit. The most important thing for Watchtower is absolute unity of thought. Whether that thought is mistaken or not is secondary.[7]


Watchtower wants robots and it actively works to achieve robots. Watchtower then wears out these robots conducting its religion business, even, astoundingly, to the point of intentionally leaving these "no time" for simple pleasures such as going to the movies.[8]

Marvin Shilmer
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References

1 Awake!, published by Watchtower, June 8, 1958, p. 8.

2 Awake!, published by Watchtower, June 8, 1968, p. 21.

3 Cleveland, Jehovah's Witnesses and Human Tissue Donation, Journal of Clinical Psychology, April, 1976, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 453-458.

4 The Watchtower, March, 15, 1980, p. 31.

5 Dixon and Smalley, Jehovah's Witnesses—The Surgical Ethical Challenge, Journal of the American Medical Association, Nov. 27, 1981, Vol. 246, No. 21, pp. 2471-2472.

6 Keufman et al, Transplantation in Jehovah's Witnesses, Transplantation Proceedings, Vol. 19, No. 5 (October), 1987, P. 3693. This article is specifically about kidney transplantations termed renal Tx in the presentation.

7 Pursuer's Proof, Walsh vs. The Right Honourable James Latham Clyde, M.P., P.C., Scottish Court of Sessions, Nov. 1954, pp. 347-348. These pages contain testimony by Hayden Convington who at the time was in house legal counsel for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Socity.


8 See the article Why the unrelenting pressure for more and more organized religious activity?

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