A View From Inside the Watchtower

By on April 18, 2010 8:16 pm in History, Watchtower

A former Jehovah’s Witness, now a convert to Orthodox Catholicism, recounts his days as a “Bethelite” in the Witnesses’ Brooklyn Heights headquarters, here.

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6 Responses to A View From Inside the Watchtower

  1. Andrew Porter April 19, 2010 at 3:04 am #

    Fascinating stuff. I was unaware the world was due to come to an end in 1975. I must have slept right through that…

  2. Ben April 19, 2010 at 3:39 pm #

    An invisible Armageddon! After all, the JWs say Christ returned invisibly in 1914. Another good read from a former Bethelite (and New Yorker) is Barbara Gruzzuti Harrison’s Visions of Glory (Simon & Schuster). It’s been out of print for several years but is now available in digital format:

    http://www.freeminds-store.com/downloads/visions-of-glory.html

  3. nabeguy April 19, 2010 at 9:14 pm #

    Andrew, given that the Reds won the World Series that year, maybe they had it right in a sense.

  4. Claude Scales April 19, 2010 at 11:35 pm #

    Nabeguy: are you sayin’ Charlie Hustle is the Antichrist?

  5. No One of Consequence April 20, 2010 at 1:23 am #

    I know I’ve already been tagged as a JW hater in another thread (which isn’t really true, I don’t particularly like them either, but I don’t like ANY organized religion), but this article increases my skepticism many times over.

  6. milton May 3, 2010 at 9:29 pm #

    The Witnesses are selling their properties and leaving the Heights. We will no longer be their Bethel. Praise the lord.
    Who will inherit the tunnels?