You have to be a conspiracy theorist to be a JW
I realised over the weekend, to be a JW…you need to be a conspiracy theorist. To believe the doctrine, you need to reject the following branches of science and mainstream research:
Archaeology (especially Near Eastern/Biblical archaeology relating to Jerusalem’s destruction date).
Assyriology (because Babylonian records strongly support 587/586 BCE rather than 607 BCE).
Chronology (specifically Neo-Babylonian chronology).
Evolutionary Biology (due to rejection of common ancestry/evolution).
Genetics (I.e DNA. Especially human population genetics and common ancestry evidence).
Population Genetics (conflicts with literal Adam/Eve and post-Flood bottleneck models).
Paleoanthropology (due to fossil evidence for human evolution).
Anthropology (especially ancient human timelines and migration history).
Geology (conflicts with a recent global flood).
Paleontology (fossil record supports deep time and evolution).
Geochronology (radiometric dating conflicts with biblical chronology).
Climatology (ice core records extend far beyond JW flood chronology).
Egyptology (Egyptian chronology conflicts with JW biblical timelines).
Mainstream Biblical Scholarship (including authorship claims)
Comparative Religion (no unique doctrines)
Sociology (research into high control groups)
Psychology (ignore red flags of cult control)
My rents scoff at the brothers who were into them…like the moon landing was fake and that 9/11 was an inside job. Turns out, they’ve been the biggest conspiracy theorists all along!!