Although nowhere near as amusing as Jack Chick’s looney-tunes religious tracts, I occasionally like to flip through any stray copy of The Watchtower I come across. Friends and longtime readers of this blog know that I will occasionally poke fun at and even play pranks on people handing out The Watchtower, and it’s partly because of stuff like this:
Watchtower scan courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Here’s the text:
What Will be the “End Afterward?”
Young people are often exposed to temptations and pressures to experiment with things that seem popular. Here are some likely scenarios:
- Someone dares you to smoke a cigarette.
- A well-intentioned teacher urges you to pursue higher education at a university.
- You are invited to a party where alcohol and drugs will be freely available.
- “Why don’t you post your profile on the internet?” someone suggests.
- A friend invites you to watch a movie that features violence or immorality.
If you are ever confronted with any of such situations, what will you do? Will you simply give in, or will you carefully consider what the “end afterward” could be? You would be wise to ask yourself: “Can a man rake together fire in his bosom and yet his very garments not be burned? Or can a man walk upon the coals and his fee themselves not be scorched?” — Proverbs 6:27, 28.
I can see arguments against smoking, parties where drugs and alcohol are freely available and even movies with violence or immorality. I arched my eyebrow at the point about posting a profile on the internet. But what really got me was the bit about the well-intentioned teacher urging you to pursue higher education at a university (which is why I emphasized it in both the picture and the text).
That book-learnin’, it’s the devil’s workshop! It’s a silly belief, but there are all sorts of people out there — and not just religious nuts — who think that higher education is a bad idea, and you see echoes of that sentiment when Republican politicos hit their opponents with the “elitist” label.
