"a Baptist farm family and raised in near-poverty." - comma missing between "family" and "and". Maybe reword to something like "Rutherford was born on November 8, 1869 to the Baptist farm family, James Calvin Rutherford and Leonora Strickland, and raised in near-poverty. "
"seditious and antiwar statements" - they really banned for these reasons?
The body of the article explains that the directors were charged with offences under the Espionage Act. The charges were laid in response to complaints about The Finished Mystery, which Beckford describes as containing "seditious materal". I have added a citation for this.
BlackCab (
talk) 11:14, 20 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Doctrinal changes
"In 1936, Rutherford rejected the belief that Jesus had been executed on a Roman cross, in favor of an upright stake or "tree."" - any information why he believed so?
Ref 29, 46, 47, 51, 57, 64, 93, 94, 109, 111, 127, 131, 135, 144, 150, 165, 170, 177, 178, 179, 184 and 195 do not link to any citation
Use consitant style of "page"
Dead references should be fixed
According to one category, he was a "Former atheists and agnostics"; do you have any information regarding this claim?
Ref "Millions Now Living Will Never Die!, 1920, p. : "A simple calculation of these jubilees brings us to this important fact: Seventy jubilees of fifty years each would be a total of 3500 years. That period of time beginning 1575 before A.D. 1 of necessity would end in the fall of the year 1925."" needs a page number--
GoPTCN 08:58, 26 June 2012 (UTC)reply
The references you mention are all linked to sources in the Refs section; all are then linked to their entries in the bibliography.
I have removed the "Former atheists and agnostics" category. There is a passing reference to atheism in a reference, but this is far from a reliable source and certainly not a secondary source.
Can you please point out any dead references? Thanks.
BlackCab (
talk) 11:18, 26 June 2012 (UTC)reply
"a Baptist farm family and raised in near-poverty." - comma missing between "family" and "and". Maybe reword to something like "Rutherford was born on November 8, 1869 to the Baptist farm family, James Calvin Rutherford and Leonora Strickland, and raised in near-poverty. "
"seditious and antiwar statements" - they really banned for these reasons?
The body of the article explains that the directors were charged with offences under the Espionage Act. The charges were laid in response to complaints about The Finished Mystery, which Beckford describes as containing "seditious materal". I have added a citation for this.
BlackCab (
talk) 11:14, 20 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Doctrinal changes
"In 1936, Rutherford rejected the belief that Jesus had been executed on a Roman cross, in favor of an upright stake or "tree."" - any information why he believed so?
Ref 29, 46, 47, 51, 57, 64, 93, 94, 109, 111, 127, 131, 135, 144, 150, 165, 170, 177, 178, 179, 184 and 195 do not link to any citation
Use consitant style of "page"
Dead references should be fixed
According to one category, he was a "Former atheists and agnostics"; do you have any information regarding this claim?
Ref "Millions Now Living Will Never Die!, 1920, p. : "A simple calculation of these jubilees brings us to this important fact: Seventy jubilees of fifty years each would be a total of 3500 years. That period of time beginning 1575 before A.D. 1 of necessity would end in the fall of the year 1925."" needs a page number--
GoPTCN 08:58, 26 June 2012 (UTC)reply
The references you mention are all linked to sources in the Refs section; all are then linked to their entries in the bibliography.
I have removed the "Former atheists and agnostics" category. There is a passing reference to atheism in a reference, but this is far from a reliable source and certainly not a secondary source.
Can you please point out any dead references? Thanks.
BlackCab (
talk) 11:18, 26 June 2012 (UTC)reply