The Governing Body thought only of covering their collective asses and getting a little "payback."
His former "glorious" peers with their impeccable credentials as Jehovah's spokesmen scrambled to plug the dam! Their first duty was far different than Ray's. The pristine flowering majesty of a clean conscience and an ordinary life! Without grandstanding or calling a press conference or starting a new religious movement, Ray Franz quietly walked a straight line right out the door of Jehovah's Witnesses temple of human error.
Ray fought the fine fight of the faith quietly but solid as a rock. Ray Franz TRUSTED the rational mind God had given him enough to write and speak and live what Here was Ray's moment of sparkling integrity.
Write the facts and let the chips fall where they may. Pass the buck to somebody higher and let them bear the burden?ģ.Let it go and "wait on Jehovah" to correct it?Ĥ.Raise hell and fight it out with naysayers?ĥ. What choices were to be made and what would it cost?ġ.Gloss over the dissonance between research and Watchtower "Truth"?Ģ. The sum of a man's life can come down to a vanishingly small moment. What Ray realized amounted to doctrinal error! Conflict between his rational mind and his religious loyalty immediately arose! In the course of his research, Ray Franz found what amounted to evidence of dissonance in THE TRUTH. He committed himself to doing that jobĪs perfectly as possible without a cursory "cut and paste" parroting of what had been done before. Ray was assigned the work of writing articles for one of the Society's new reference books. It was in the course of research that something special in Ray's character triggered a chain reaction. He, like the rest of us, put his energy and intelligence into a teaching work no matter what the personal cost to himself. Or.processing.ĭedicating yourself to the finest work on Earth is noble.
My task was to ask myself what it was that made Ray so singular, potent and admirable without a trace of scandal or ill will attached to his memory. I had to reflect for quietly.Īfter all, fine people die every day and some of them are indispensable, yet, we go on.don't we?īut, Ray Franz was something that can only be described in the phrase sui generis (one of a kind). The death of Ray Franz hit me harder than I would have thought.
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