“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “In this too your fathers have blasphemed Me, by being unfaithful to Me. If only everyone in the organization could see the truth in those words and how far from them the organization has strayed today. Thank you Ann, for bringing this quote to our attention. 4:18 5:7), JWs are walking headlong into that very snare.
"But this snare will never catch Jehovah’s cleansed people today" - 65 years on from those words, and observing the recent trends developing, it appears to me that with all the emphasis on the 'seen' (2 Cor. But this snare will never catch Jehovah’s cleansed people today.
The organization is served and worshiped instead of the one it claims to represent, namely Jehovah God. That has happened to the organizations of the big and prosperous, orthodox churches of Christendom. When young and growing, fighting their way up, zeal is strong and evangelistic but when they have won their place and become strong and wealthy and respected they often lose their virile strength and become lax, fat, sluggish, and point with pride to their size, and put their directives above God’s commands. "There is this to remember concerning organizations generally. 38 A Victory Dedicated to Jehovah’s Honor *** The focus of attention has become increasingly centered on branding, or on cartoon characters, or on the org's new audio-visual mega-machine. the frequency of seeing arts, crafts, jewelry, buttons, bags, flower beds and so on with the jwdotorg logo strikes me as obsessive.
Re-posting from an older jw-archive thread: I guess it would be argued that the jworg icon isn't used as an object of worship like the cross has been.