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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Blood on the Altar about Jehovah's, Witnesses, Verse with the genre: Christian Books & Bibles, Christian Living.
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conversations.value: the author, a former Jehovah's Witnesses minister, reveals here his take on what he considers the sect's secretive exploitations, brainwashing techniques, and oppressive practices. the author promptly telegraphs his punch with the horrifying factoid that, with their doctrinal prohibition against blood transfusions, "JW leaders at Watchtower headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, have led many more people to an early death than the 87 Branch Davidians who died at Waco." His work is a strange (and thematically elusive) interweave of three motifs: the author and wife Penni's 13-year involvement in Jehovah's Witnesses; the history of the sect; and a recital of well-worn mockeries such as failed end-of-the-world Jehovah's Witnesses predictions. Since primary sources on the sect are freely available in most laundromats and metropolitan street corners, nothing new is revealed in this tedious secondary source. Mainstream Christians seeking biblical arguments against Jehovah's Witnesses interpretations should consult the author's earlier Jehovah's Witnesses Answered Verse by Verse (Baker, 1986). General readers are better served by R. Gordon Melton's objective Encyclopedia of American Religions (Gale, 1994. 4th ed.), which every library should own.?Bill Piekarski, Southwestern Coll. Lib., Chula Vista, Cal.<BR>Copyright 1996 the author Business Information, Inc.
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conversations.value: the author promptly telegraphs his punch with the horrifying factoid that, with their doctrinal prohibition against blood transfusions, "JW leaders at Watchtower headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, have led many more people to an early death than the 87 Branch Davidians who died at Waco." His work is a strange (and thematically elusive) interweave of three motifs: the author and wife Penni's 13-year involvement in Jehovah's Witnesses; the history of the sect; and a recital of well-worn mockeries such as failed end-of-the-world Jehovah's Witnesses predictions. Since primary sources on the sect are freely available in most laundromats and metropolitan street corners, nothing new is revealed in this tedious secondary source. Mainstream Christians seeking biblical arguments against Jehovah's Witnesses interpretations should consult the author's earlier Jehovah's Witnesses Answered Verse by Verse (Baker, 1986). General readers are better served by R. Gordon Melton's objective Encyclopedia of American Religions (Gale, 1994. 4th ed.), which every library should own.?Bill Piekarski, Southwestern Coll. Lib., Chula Vista, Cal.<BR>Copyright 1996 the author Business Information, Inc.