From: DON SISCO
To: CARLA RYGULA
Subj: JW's And War

  (CR) No. For we are told by Jesus: "All will know if you are my
 disciples, if you have love among yourselves." Seeing all the
 love Christendom had for their fellow brothers during wartime,
 was just overwhelming. (CR)

   Some comments concerning your hypocritical stand on war. I recently came
into some very interesting information concerning  the JW's and their
involvement in war. I guess the WTBTS hasn't  always been as "loving" a group
as you'd like to present them: 

   "There could be nothing against our conscience in going into
 the army. Wherever we would go we could take the Lord with us,
 the Captain of our salvation, and wherever we would go we could
 find opportunities to serve him and his cause" (THE WATCHTOWER,
 April 15, 1903, pg. 120).

   "Notice that there is no command in the Scriptures against
 military service" (THE WATCHTOWER, Aug. 1, 1898, pg. 231).

   What do you suppose they were going to do in the military  Carla? Sit
around and read their WTBTS books? Walk out onto the  battlefield empty
handed? No, they went out and killed people,  JUST LIKE   EVERYBODY ELSE DID!
Was it wrong? Not according to  AWAKE, Sep. 8, 1975 pgs. 27-28 and July 22,
pg. 7, Jehovah's Witnesses were told force, EVEN DEADLY FORCE was allowed to 
protect one's self or another!

   Looks like there is a little hypocrisy at work here among the "loving"
Jehovah's Witnesses!