Just how does that work?
Even if you don’t pass the collection plate. The sales of door to door literature go to pay for automobiles and other expenses, of full time preachers.
Jehovah’s Witnesses must then admit to a paid clergy class. Or is there some convoluted explanation you can give for this Christendom-like activity?
From Wiki “The society files no publicly accessible financial figures, but reported in 2008 that it had spent more than $141 million that year “in caring for special pioneers, missionaries and traveling overseers in their field service assignments”.[13] Donations obtained from the distribution of literature is a major source of income, most of which is used to promote its evangelical activities”
Grey Tower you nailed it.
Mark you proved the point. After all your 20yrs of giving away literature (that you paid for) havn’t you figured out that it doesn’t matter if the public pays…the Watchtower has 7,000,000 customers that pay every month!! Scam is not the word for it. Those thousands of magazines and books you have given away are in some trash dump now. Have you ever considered the poor tree’s who have donated. Perhaps that is something for you to think of the next time you leave a magazine in the donut shop.
Edit: cheeno knowing first hand how little of the literature is ever read, how little of the time reported by jw’s worldwide is actually spent in preaching…….and miniscule amount of teaching….could it be that Christendom has a more effective method of reachng converts than your publishing company?
I think a very strong argument can be made for that assertion. Look at all the publishing companies going under now. Jw’s by their forced contributions for literature are sustaining a weak method of preaching. Think about it.
2% growth is nothing to brag about.
TT you are so right. The average jw has no conception or remote understanding of the wealth of this organization. With 0 tax liablity they have amassed millions in cash and holdings. Billions are not an overestimate, they admit to over $950 million a year in income. Of course no one can account for where that is spent.
Wiki says: The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York was as of 2001 one of the 40 largest revenue-generating companies in New York City, reporting an annual revenue of about $951 million US dollars.