What convinces me most,Andria, that WTBS really hurts people is that many leaving it lose faith in God and the bible. It's a tremendous impact on people's lifes..But the price paid to allow big religious corporations to float on the surface is usually very high. WTBS' policy is typical for such- use the bible(actually misuse) as an advertisement tool to gain trust to attract new members and creating illusion of sticking to it keep them out of its reach. 
HOW? giving them substitute-"food"in proper time.That it is effective what Cee Cee and Raine say is the proof. During last summer conventions they confirmed this strategy amazingly openly in the controversial talk "stimulate right hearted ones to love their..Spiritual Father..and Spiritual Mother" where smth like that was said about the bible : BUT THE BIBLE DOESN'T ENLIGHTEN PEOPLE WITH SPIRITUAL TRUTHS BY ITSELF meaning we'd need wtbs..
WHY? the bible in reality is a very mighty tool and as every tool can be used either for good and bad. It can be used by religious corp.to suck people's blood if they keep them separated from the bible' certain teachings (like in the tale "59sec story about Spiritual Mother" in Creativity Corner). Or it can destroy such corp.in case the members have free access to bible's ANTI-BIG-CORP&MANIPULATION  warnings the bible really flourish with,ex:
-Nimrod's story of destructive centralisation attempt
-400 "prophets" manipulating KING Ahab (1Kings chapt.22)
-Jeroboam manipulating 10tribes with the help of two golden calfs
-countless Jesus' warnings like "there will arise many false christs and will mislead MANY"
"DO NOT follow them" ,"you will recognize them(manipulators) by their fruits" etc..

As for me I was lucky as I was able to fight WTBS with the help of the tool (mis)used by them reading the bible many times taking advantage of its reach historical,psychological record. Finally I was able to free myself not losing faith in God and the bible but to the contrary- it all proved even more true than I ever expected. Had I put more attention to the lessons recorded in the bible I'd have freed myself from this cult much quicker..

Last Edited By: jackblack Jan 14 13 4:04 AM. Edited 2 times.