Yes, Nabulungi is the only character to make me cry (Sal Tlay Ka Siti, goddam!), however, I found Elder Cunningham to be quite likeable, and Elder Price after his encounter/epiphany with General BFN. Did you not find them likeable, if not good role models?
I was also raised a JW, and though I've only heard the cast album of BOM, I swear I was thinking the exact same thing the author expresses just this past weekend.
...although nowadays the Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses are their own grim, insular, not-very-funny self-parody. Google News Search if you're interested.
@7: LOL! I too was raised JW, was on the missionary track. Unfortunately (or not) my carnal nature got me disfellowshipped not once, but twice, and so I remain to this day. Meantime, my 95 yo 'elder' pa who loves me dearly yet fears the wrath of 'god' should he carry on a normal parental relationship with me lays on his deathbed, paralyzed by fear if he were to have any contact with me. Sad. Revolting, actually. In their zeal for seeking to control of the lives and bodies of their followers, the JWs and Mormons are not so far apart, despite their mutual disdain.
Thanks Rich for sharing so poignantly your experiential reality. Keep on keeping on. This shit needs to be exposed. (Please consider doing an expose of the child sexual molestation 'problem' and its institutional coverup within the organization. It's been done, but totally needs updating, and more exposure.) Please feel free to track me down for firsthand witnessing of the institutional atrocities which this organization conducts in the name of 'god'.
They aren't in the LDS church either. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/us/a-g…
Thanks Rich for sharing so poignantly your experiential reality. Keep on keeping on. This shit needs to be exposed. (Please consider doing an expose of the child sexual molestation 'problem' and its institutional coverup within the organization. It's been done, but totally needs updating, and more exposure.) Please feel free to track me down for firsthand witnessing of the institutional atrocities which this organization conducts in the name of 'god'.
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/07/2…
https://www.revealnews.org/article/jehov…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asi…
https://www.revealnews.org/article/jehov…
https://www.revealnews.org/article/5-har…