Beroean Pickets Jw.org Reviewer

The first time I partook of the emblems at the memorial in my local Kingdom hall, the elderly sister sitting next to me remarked in all sincerity: “I had no idea we were so privileged!”  There you have it in a single phrase—the problem behind the JW two-class system of redemption.  The sad irony is that the Governing Body, while claiming to have done away with the clergy/laity distinctions of Christendom[i], has joined its fellow denominations in creating one of their very own, and a particularly pronounced distinction it is. You might think I’m overstating the problem. You might say that this is a difference without a distinction—this sister’s comment notwithstanding.  Yet, in a way, the JW class distinction is greater than is currently practiced in Catholicism.  Consider the fact that, potentially, anyone can become Pope, as this video demonstrates. This is not the case with Jehovah’s Witnesses.  According to JW theology, one must be specifically selected by God as one of an elite group of anointed before