Many people deroggatively say that about me (us). I believe you may have a valid point with some of us, but most of us are Jehovah's witnesses sir. To most of us we recognize the governing body as being the assigned faithful slave Jesus put over his sheep while he is gone. It is very true that we all believe the same thing, since we are all Christs disciples, but a true Christian would never place any man above God. I clearly do not do that, and would challenge you to give an example where you find me doing so, I will be glad to rebut it. Just because they worship and serve the same God that I do, and we all congregate together, does not mean that we worship each other, our very name should indicate whose witnesses we are. At the very least our teachings will reveal to an honest individual who our God is, without much trying I might add. Acts 5 is a great account where the brothers taking the lead tried to get the brothers to obey them over God, notice what we faithful ones told them sir in verse 29. Virtually every one of us would tell the governing body that today if they told us to do something against what God says. But I do give you this, I do believe some among us idolizes them.
Very simply sir. when you accept teh reinterpretations of the governing class of th eScripture as the truth and not the word as truth as written, you have placed a group of men above God. Whether you would admit it or not, when you accept their reinterpretations you accept teh fact that god needs editing and that teh governing class have some mystical powers like RCC priests to reveal secrets from god.
But as Paul wrote about Jews who faithfully served the law I can honestly say this about JW's:
Romans 10
King James Version
10 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
As long as you reject the truth of Scripture that Jesus rose again from the dead in the body He died in- you are forever lost. And I wish that not for you.
So many of the things the Jw's pose as doctrine is irrelevant to salvation, but because they have made them offenses to be disfellowshipped for- they have become issues to be railed against with every breath I and others have! this is very insulting, but the Watchtower is nothing more than another cruel and dictatorial copy of the RCC church when it was at its tyrannical worst.
Personally I have found most JW's extremely cordial, friendly diligent, hardworking, honest, kind etc. but not one of these things will rescue a soul from the lake of fire.