The distribution of books and magazines and propaganda work is called a testimony that every member of the sect is obliged to fulfill. The minimum allowable number of certificates is 10 hours per month. But in order to be in good standing in the sect, you need to "witness" much more – 50, 60, 80 or more hours a month.

A special category of Witnesses are pioneers (who preach at least 90 hours per month) and special pioneers (who preach at least 140 hours per month). In 1997, about 700,000 of the 5,900,000 Witnesses were pioneers, or one in eight. [141]

The September 1996 issue of Our Kingdom Ministry, a Jehovah's Witness magazine for internal use, contains detailed instructions on recruitment, including a requirement to know the name, address, and phone number of a person who has shown even the slightest interest in the conversation. The guide "How to start and continue a conversation on a biblical topic" (1994) examines options for drawing visiting residents into a conversation, including the use of direct lies about one's confessional affiliation. In this manual, the lie that sectarians do not need money is also recognized as permissible (this is despite the fact that in another manual the methods of extortion are very frankly described[142]). All the results of the conversations are recorded in special cards - "Records of the service from house to house", where the addresses of the houses and apartments visited are indicated. If possible, the names and surnames of the residents are recorded, as well as their reaction to the sectarians pestering them and the literature donated to them. Thanks to such painstaking work, a total record of all residents of the areas in which the sect operates is kept. At the same time, information is also collected about residents, the time when they can be found at home, their health, interests. The degree of activity of the "witness" and, consequently, his desire for salvation is evaluated by the leadership of the Jehovah's Witnesses according to the data of these cards. There is no other word than "recruitment" for all this activity.

But Jehovah's Witnesses constantly emphasize "the high moral standard of their organization. Is this true? "Society" uses a very peculiar understanding of lying, different from the generally accepted one. It is due to the fact that a special policy is being pursued in relation to non-members of the Jehovah's Witnesses organization. Those who doubt the essence of their teachings are perceived as opponents[143] and treated as such. The OSB teaches Jehovah's Witnesses to literally keep silent about certain facts or lie about them. This tactic is called the "strategy of theocratic warfare." The Society urges the "witnesses" to remember that: "As a soldier of Christ, he is constantly in a state of theocratic war and must be very careful when dealing with God's enemies. Thus, it is clear from the Scriptures that in order to protect the interests of God's cause, the truth must be concealed from God's enemies." [144] Accordingly, the entire literature of the OSB is filled with distortions of facts and outright deceptions. In the book Help in Understanding the Bible, we read: "Lying is usually understood to mean a lie told to someone who has a right to know the truth." [145] Of course, the Brooklyn theocracy makes the decision about who and when is worthy of knowing the truth.

2. "The God of the priesthood is... the ancient pagan deity, overgrown with centuries of iniquity, is Baal, this is the Devil himself"

Divine services among Jehovah's Witnesses are based on the Watchtower magazine. It takes place in the "kingdom halls"; in Moscow, for example, in 1996 there were about 60 such halls. Jehovah's Witnesses either rent premises for these purposes, or (in other countries or in rural areas) build such halls, and they try to do it in a minimum time (preferably in one day), gathering the maximum number of people for this. Their worship is the same as their buildings – incredibly boring. The absence of professional clergy in the localities contributes to the officialdom and dead boredom that reigns at meetings. Theoretically, every man over 20 years old can be a leader. However, in reality, everything is led by activists appointed from above - "elders". This guarantees a complete absence of initiative from below and any surprises, which is a matter of special pride for Jehovah's Witnesses. A characteristic quotation: "The God of the priesthood is quite obviously not Jehovah, it is an ancient pagan deity overgrown with centuries of iniquity, it is Baal, it is the Devil himself" [146] (the last word in Jehovist texts is always written with a capital letter). That is, the presence of the clergy for them is a criterion of devil worship. However, as we have seen, this does not prevent the Jehovah's Witnesses from donating money for the maintenance of their "pioneers" and "overseers."

Jehovah's Witnesses must attend a special book study meeting once a week and visit a "kingdom hall" twice a week. In addition, there is also a large summer convention and several smaller ones throughout the rest of the year. In the field, there are branches of the central (Pennsylvania) "Gilead Theocratic Ministry School," in which sectarians are taught to preach and defend the point of view of the "Society" with the help of literature. The school curriculum provides for intensive five-month indoctrination and preparation for recruitment activities.

Usually, meetings in the "kingdom hall" consist of two parts. First, either a male member of the congregation or a traveling overseer speaks. A man examines a prescribed Watchtower article in detail, holding the magazine in his hands, and the preacher, whose arrival is advertised in advance ("our brother will come, who will tell a lot of new things"), simply tells the contents of the magazine, which will be delivered in 2 weeks, or reads out special directives brought from Brooklyn. The speeches make up a long lecture—you can't call it a sermon—but everyone listens to it attentively. Then they sing simple songs either to the accompaniment of keyboards or to a tape recorder. The recordings were made in the same Brooklyn, the music and lyrics were written there. This is followed by reading the journal, the issue of which everyone holds in front of them, with a detailed analysis of the articles. All journal articles are anonymous. The paragraphs in them are numbered like Bible verses. Each of the articles is an absolute truth that is not subject to critical discussion. It is possible to discuss what is written there only for the purpose of deeper assimilation and even more complete approval.

In order for everyone to assimilate everything that is written, at the bottom of the pages on which the articles for study are printed, questions about their content are given. First, the text is read, then the facilitator asks the participants questions, and they find the answers to them in the content of the article and read them. An answer that is correct in content, but stated in one's own words, is considered incorrect. You can only answer with the words of the printed text. Thus, the content of the journal is assimilated very efficiently. All this is very similar to the infamous political classes that many of us remember. Only there everyone tried to sit in the back row to solve crosswords, and here everything is done not out of fear, but out of conscience. The magazines are then studied at home and in weekday meetings. So in two weeks, each sectarian gouges out the entire issue by heart. For the next two weeks, a new journal is studied, then the next, and so on. And since human memory is limited, after a few months the content of past journals is firmly erased from memory, and the sectarian no longer remembers that six months ago he could have been taught something completely different from what is taught today.

Women do not play an active role in worship—the leadership of the Jehovah's Witnesses is only male; in general, the attitude towards women is somewhat dismissive, because the founder of the sect, Russell, considered them inferior beings (perhaps because of the scandalous divorce from his own wife).

Jehovah's Witnesses baptize by immersion "in the name of the Father and of the Son and the spirit-guided Organization." The baptizer stands next to the baptized person and supports him, and the latter lies on his back in the water and stands up already baptized. They are baptized at conventions and congresses in inflatable rubber pools specially placed in the most prominent place.

Naturally, the Jehovah's Witnesses consider themselves to be the only true church (they use the word "organization") — all other religions are one hundred percent false; They deny even the word "religion" and define religion as the worship of idols, the worship of creatures. And they alone worship the true God. True, this rejection of religion as such does not prevent the Witnesses from doing their best to seek religious status for their organization, with all the benefits that come with it.

Any religion other than the faith of the Witnesses, according to the anonymous authors of The Watchtower, is "like pure cocaine." [147] Christians are called traitors to God and liars,[148] and elements of Christian teaching and tradition are called those derived from "ancient false religions."[149] Religious leaders of "false religions" are called "among the most notorious liars." [150] According to The Watchtower, Christian priests are in a state of "drunken stupor." [151] The priesthood is indiscriminately accused of pedophilia, on the basis of which it is concluded that "the clergy reject God by refusing to act in harmony ... moral norms". [152] It is asserted that "the churches of Christendom ... are infected with sexual immorality"[153] and that "parishioners of the church and even priests allow themselves to lead a dissolute life, commit adultery, fight, drink, be greedy, lie, engage in spiritism and idolatry." [154] The "religions of Christendom" are promised "deprivation of their wealth" and "shameful exposure." [155] The magazines report that "Christendom and other false religions will soon be completely destroyed." [156] "This is a just judgment pronounced by Jehovah on false teachers. This sentence will be carried out." [157]

It is worth recalling that these and similar statements sharply incline the Jehovah's Witnesses against the adherents of all other religions, primarily against the adherents of the traditional confessions of those countries where the sect operates. This aggression bursts out and, naturally, gives rise to a response from people who are offended both by the blasphemous statements of Jehovah's Witness publications regarding the shrines they revere, and by the importunate harassment of sect members. In this way, the leadership of the sect provokes interreligious tension and conflict situations, which help it to firmly keep people in the organization: "Look how the world possessed by the devil hates you..."