they have been taught that “reading apostate publications” is “similar to reading pornographic literature” (WT, 3/15/1986, p. 14). Any who violate these commandments by reading non-JW religious material face trial before a closed-door “judicial committee” with the possibility of being “disfellowshiped”—expelled from the congregation and shunned by all former associates, even family. For this reason books refuting Watch Tower teachings are seldom read by Jehovah’s Witnesses. Only one who is already