Vol. 7, No. 4, 1990

Articles on Jehovah's Witnesses

Lately we launched a massive literature campaign, distributing over 35,000 pamphlets and stickers around the South African headquarters of the Watchtower.

The public responded vehemently with letters of protest and letters of praise to the local newspaper. The editor contacted Peter Andrews for a comment and herewith is his reply:

"Re: Watch Out There's Danger AT Your Door and the stickers No Visits By Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons Please.

"Firstly: The accusation has been made that we are making unnecessary attacks on these `peaceful and faithful band of Christians,' the Jehovah's Witnesses.

"Let us be reminded that this `peaceful band of Christians' who represent a organisation called the Watchtower have been attacking the church for the past 100 years. It is time now that we who represent Orthodox Christianity take a stand against such attacks.

"The Watchtower (WT) teaches that the churches, meaning Romanism and Protestantism are all part of the whore of Babylon.

"In a WT publication called Thy Kingdom Come, 1891 edition, p. 153, they say; `And, with the end of A.D. 1914, what God calls Babylon, and what men call Christendom, will have passed away, as already shown from prophecy.'

"This teaching has continued until this present day; WT magazine 15th April 1989, `Even in this 20th century, spiritual harlotry is common in the world religious system. Christendom is the most prominent part of that system - a system that the Bible calls "Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the disgusting things of the earth.'"

"In other words the church or organisation that you belong to is as the present teaching says `<193>the disgusting things of the earth.'

"I also cannot understand why some Jehovah's Witnesses are annoyed with the pamphlet we are distributing.

"Was it not the Watchtower that said: `It is not a form of religious persecution for any¬one to say and to show that another religion is false. It is not religious persecution for an informed person to expose publicly a certain religion as being false, thus allowing persons to see the difference between false religion and true religion.'

"We have only practised what the Watchtower has been doing to the Churches for the last 100 years. It is our Christian duty to warn the public that the Watchtower organisation is not part of Christendom, they are coming round to tell you that you belong to the whore of Babylon!

"The Watchtower has said that if you study the Bible alone or in small groups you will revert back to what the clergy were teaching 100 years ago (WT, 15/8/81, p.28, 29).

"In other words if you do not let the Watchtower organisation interpret the Bible for you and you revert to reading the Bible on its own you will end right back in `Babylon the great, the disgusting things of the earth.'

"Secondly: Our motive for these pamphlets is to warn the public of the danger in following the Watchtower teachings:

"1. The WT teaches our nation that it is wrong to defend our wives, children and community through the means of the government forces. What will happen to our country if its people take to what the Watchtower is teaching concerning this matter?

"2. The WT rob people of the right to save their babies and children by the means of blood transfusions. Making out that they will be eternally cut off from God for saving a life.

"3. They cause separations in many families because of their ruling of disfellowshipping. There is no honourable way out of this organisation, if you leave you are put in the same bracket as one who has been kicked out of the organisation.

"Children who have been disfellowshipped are not allowed to give their parents the reasons as to why they were disfellowshipped. (Organisation for Kingdom - Preaching and Disciple - Making, 1972, p. 173).

"Children are to leave their disfellowshipped parents, even if it means financial hardship. (WT, 15/11/52 p. 703).

"Jehovah's Witnesses are told to hate ex-Jehovah's Witnesses because they are against God and not fit to live. They are told: "`We must hate with the truest sense, which is to regard with extreme and active aversion, to consider as loathsome, odious, filthy, to detest.' (WT, 1/10/52 p. 599).

"Is it not true that a country's stability is built on the family's unity? If then, an organisation comes and destroys this very basic principle, are they not destroying our nation?

"Thirdly: We are protecting God's honour.

"The Watchtower have claimed that the information of their books and magazines comes from God Himself! (All Scripture is Inspired of God and Beneficial, 1961, p. 9). Yet every single date they have predicted has failed to come to pass.

"The Bible has condemned the WT as a false prophet and therefore should not be listened to (Deuteronomy 18:18-22).

"One hundred years ago the WT said that 1914 was the end: `We see no reason for changing the figures - nor could we change them if we would. They are, we believe, God's dates, not ours. But bear in mind that the end of 1914 is not the date for the beginning but for the end of trouble<193>," (Zion's Watch Tower, 15/6/1894, p. 226).

"However, today the WT says 1914 is the beginning.

"They have made God out to be a liar and it is our job to warn the public of this danger."

Although the newspaper did not print all of the above it lays out our basic motive for doing the distribution.