Jehovah hates the Educated!

I live very close to Sheffield in Yorkshire, England.  To those of you that don't know Sheffield it's famous for steel, the finest cutlery in the world, silver plating, The Human League, The Arctic Monkeys, Jess Ennis-Hill, Sean Bean and the world snooker championships - oh and the film The Full Monty - plus lots, lots more.

It is a fantastic city - Mclaren build all their car body shells in Sheffield, Rolls Royce build jet engines in one of the many industrial sites, it has more theatres than any UK city outside of London and it has a fantastic University.  It has the second largest Chinese population in the country and it has spawned numerous highly successful music bands.

However this is not a Trip Advisor guide to Sheffield.  This blog is about the University and JW's attempt to subvert the kids that go there for a fantastic education.

Most students enter Sheffield by train and the city station is superb.  The station itself is very easy to navigate and has one of the best real ale pubs in the country right at it's heart - The Sheffield Tap.

Leave the station and you will walk between two water features, a series of fountains and waterfalls on your left and what is commonly referred to by locals as the 'urinal' on your right, a chrome art feature that runs all the way from just beyond the exit doors to the street above.

Sheffield, like Rome, is built on seven hills and it's a steep walk into the centre, however the one thing you can be assured of is that, during term time, your walk will be accompanied by many, many students.  For Sheffield has become, more than anything else, a University City.

As you walk up the hill you will see a pub on your right called The Howard.  On the rear of the pub is a huge mural to Harry Brearley,  a Sheffield man who discovered stainless steel over 100 years ago. Now this is an important piece of art to every student that comes to the city because it highlights the importance of education.  Harry Brearley could not have provided the world with stainless steel if he had neglected education.  Similarly Henry Bessemer wouldn't have been able to revolutionise steel production methods and turn Sheffield into the steel capital of the world without education, nor Robert Hadfield the inventor of steel alloys.

Yet before you get all the way up the hill to the city centre you will encounter a cart, manned by two or three well dressed men and women, who would deny an education to everyone. 

The Governing Body of Jehovahs Witnesses brand university education as something Satanic and unnecessary. They would prefer all young people to devote their time to preaching about the bible and more importantly, converting people to contribution paying JW's.

Those JW's, with their JW.ORG cart, are trying to convert students to a religion that hates further education!  And it's not just Sheffield, they are in every University city, touting their ridiculous beliefs.  Just imagine a world without stainless steel, alloy, the microchip, antibiotics, e-mail, mobile phones, batteries, aeroplanes etc etc etc - that is the world the 7 old men that JW's really worship would prefer!  A world where every window is sparkling and where progress is hampered by stupidity.

You can hear the Governing Bodies response  - Yes but after Armageddon we will all have plenty of time to learn!  

Really? So after you've buried six billion bodies who of you will have had the education to farm, build, manufacture telecommunications, install sanitation, cool, heat, pump water, resource energy etc, etc.

Jehovah will provide!

Of course he will - it's called EDUCATION!