I decided to pay a visit to the quaint little town of Port Colborne, Ontario today, and I enjoyed it. The air was cool and invigorating and smelled of autumn leaves. As I strolled down a street in the downtown area, I couldn’t help but notice that the ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses’  were back at it with their pop-up display featuring the literature of the ‘Watchtower Society’, or ‘JW.org’. 

For some reason, I always feel I need to collect myself and say a short prayer everytime I approach them so I don’t give them the wrong impression. That impression being that I actually consider them a legitimate Christian organization who are delivering the ‘Good News’ about Jesus Christ. You see, I know a thing or two about this organization. I know that their founder, Charles Taze Russel was a charlatan and a liar. That being an established fact, one must ask how can someone whose integrity looks like a piece of Swiss cheese can lead millions of people down a path that supposedly leads to ‘A new heaven and a new earth’. It’s similar to hearing the news that Harley Davidson is getting into building aircrafts. Hooray! I want to be the first to fly in one! Also, the first to die! Yeah, they might be pretty. Yeah, they might sound ‘Badass’. But ask an honest Harley owner to tell the truth about what it’s like to own one, and you will find out that they really are unreliable pieces of overpriced shit. So much for a Harley Davidson airplane. It would be a miracle if it could even taxi out onto the runway without breaking down, never mind fly in the air. ‘JE.org’ is just another religious organization that was designed by someone who had no right to get into the game of ‘Saving Souls’. Frigg!! Charles Taze Russel was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt of not knowing the Greek alphabet, which is crucial to properly understanding the original language, and the scriptures! And that is just the tip of the iceberg!

I had a lovely visit with the two young Jehovah’s Witness women who were standing dutifully next to their little magazine rack pushing their JW propaganda. They were polite, sweet, witty, and kinda cute too! Heck, if I was younger and single I might have even asked one of them out! Other than that, anyone who doesn’t know the difference between their butt and a hole in the ground can stand there pushing their slick little periodicals upon an unsuspecting public. If only people knew just what they would be getting into with the ‘JW.org’ organization they would ‘head for the hills’ before joining this extremely controlling, overbearing, and ‘cultish’ bunch of naive individuals.

After about 15 minutes of pleasant banter with the two well dressed, well groomed young women, they had to take a ‘pee break’, upon which they were promptly replaced by two other stylishly groomed and impeccably dressed women, similar to the ‘Changing of the Gaurd’ at ‘Buckingham Palace’. These two weren’t so cordial I’m afraid. Perhaps they were the ‘B Team’, and for good reason. I proceeded to introduce myself to them and even shook their hands. One lady was sorta nice, but the other was stiff and un-engaging. Oh well, I guess you can’t win ‘em all. I then proceeded to pick up where I left off with the other two, but these ones were really not overly interested in chatting. Undaunted, I hung out with them, attempting to draw them into an actual conversation about, heaven forbid, what I needed to do to be saved, asap.

If I recall, the last time I asked one of these people a similar question, they hummed and they hawed, and gave me some sort of vague, convoluted response which didn’t answer my question in the slightest. What a stark contrast to how the Apostle Peter answered a similar question on the day of Pentecost, in the City of Jerusalem, over 2000 years ago. He said, and I quote, “Repent and be baptized, each and everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit”. There it is folks! How’s that for a straight answer?!! No ‘hummin and ‘hawwin’ about it! 

It makes you wonder just what kind of organization sends out people who haven’t what seems to be the slightest idea of what to tell people what they need to hear about such a fundamental issue. Hey, as long as you look good, be polite, and just ‘smile and wave’ when asked what is perhaps the most important question of all time, you’ll make the team. Give me a break!

Dear Lord, please help all people who are members of any religious group that teaches it’s members that being a follower of Christ is basically just a matter of looking good, smelling good, and doing a lot of ‘Smiling and Waiving’, all the while that people are literally ‘dying in the streets’, never really knowing just what they need to do in order to be saved. Maybe we can remedy the situation. Maybe we should simply ‘Just Begin’!

Glory be to you dear Father, and glory to your Son, our precious Jesus! Amen.

By Lucien Alexander Delean

Aka ‘Looch’

Wednesday October 15th, 2025