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105 years of denial - and still up

“So Christendom’s clergy refuse to take a stand for Jehovah’s Kingdom by Jesus Christ. For failing to support it, they will be destroyed in the “great tribulation” just ahead. But unlike them, Jehovah’s Witnesses have abandoned Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion, and are preaching the Kingdom message in 203 lands. This unparalleled work is an outstanding feature of “the sign” proving that in 1914 Jesus was installed as heavenly King, to rule amid his enemies."  The Watchtower 9/1/85 p. 25 par. 15 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

keep believing when reasons fail

And, as I argued briefly in  Letter to a Christian Nation , I think that 'atheist' is a term that we do not need, in the same way that we don’t need a word for someone who rejects astrology. We simply do not call people 'non-astrologers.' All we need are words like 'reason' and 'evidence' and 'common sense' and 'bullshit' to put astrologers in their place, and so it could be with religion." “It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.” "Letter to a Christian Nation" (Knopf, Sept. 19, 2006) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

you don't have to understand

PBS documentary, “American Masters: Decoding Watson” (January 2019), that his views had not changed. "The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand." —Dr. James Watson, (speech at Youngstown State University, quoted in The Vindicator, Dec. 2, 2003) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

the lord put a lying spirit in the mouth of prophets

1 Kings 22:20 and the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another. 21 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ 22 And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’ And the spirit said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And the Lord said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’ 23 Now therefore behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the Lord has declared disaster for you.” Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering