Hmmm. Lotta strange stuff there.

The funny thing is, I've known some very intelligent people who were Jehovah's Witnesses (as well as numerous others who were just average intelligence). This has proven to me that the most important component determining people's beliefs is not their intelligence, but their personal background. What I mean is, most of them grew up in families that were JV's, and they just naturally adopted that view of things as they grew up and it became their bedrock understanding of reality.

The same is true of most people. They are not nearly as objective as they think they are.

The most interesting case was a very bright young Chinese woman who did the other thing: she rebelled totally against her traditional Chinese family by becoming a Jehovah's Witness in her early 20's. That can happen too. I could never figure out how she could reconcile her keen intelligence with some of her JV beliefs.

On the other hand, I'll say this of the JVs. They are generally very well-behaving, responsible, honest people, and good neighbours.