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Mormon God vs the US government (i.redd.it)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Eh, while the issues are correct, I don't recall the governing body being that anonymous; they just didn't talk about it much in meetings. The body is listed on their website: https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body-jw-helpers/

No women of course, and not all had pictures so I can't be sure, but didn't see much people of color, though I do recall some in the past.

In my experience growing up in the cult, one of the things that sorta helped it not feel like one was the lack of deifying the founder and body. While they do teach their own history of it, it wasn't a large part of the worship. There's lots of other cult hints like isolationist and punishment by group shunning and stuff of course.