Any questions or comments you might have concerning JEHOVAH UNMASKED or I WAS A TEENAGE JEHOVAH'S WITNESS, please feel free to email me at SunTempleSeer@aol.com My lastest book, I WAS A TEENAGE JEHOVAH'S WITNESS is available from Amazon.com. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll wish for a sequel! You'll never look at those JW's on your porch quite the same way ever again. Promise.

Nate Merit



Below are emails I received concernig my first book, JEHOVAH UNMASKED:




Here is an email from Mr. and Mrs. Baker of North Carolina!)

Mr. Merritt,

I want to thank you for this clearly understandable view of the biblical story from the Gnostic perspective. I had tried to read some books on this but had a tough time fully understanding them. But after readying your book "Jehovah Unmasked" it has really opened my eyes. I understand why Jehovah of the Old Testement always made me feel uneasy and creeped out. He was downright scary and even evil to his own people. Yet Jesus didn't preach punishment and hatred for failing mankind. The God he worshipped and honored was so different than the one on the OT. The True God, the Heavenly Father is now found to me.

I wish there were some Gnostic Ministers here in North Carolina, but I realize that it is going to be an uphill battle against Jewish & Christian fundamentalist who keep tying Jesus to the OT jehovah gods. I live in the bible belt and it will be resisted here.

I feel set free, I even prayed yesterday something I haven't done in 5 years since becoming an Deist. I feel like Jesus words have meaning again.

Thanks so much,

Mr. & Mrs. Howard Baker



(This email was received from a delighted reader who was set on the Gnostic path by reading Jehovah Unmasked)

Dear Nathaniel

I've been a spiritual wanderer for most of my life, moving from one religious idea to another in search of something that would strike gold with me without giving up my intellectual integrity. Jehovah Unmasked has provided me with exactly that. This book is a great eye opener and helped me resolve my many issues with Bible contradictions and the mercurial nature of the god described within its pages. In short, it changed my life and I am finally home spiritually. Because of Jehovah Unmasked, I am a Gnostic and very comfortable with that choice which is much more than I can say for any other religious path I have encountered. I hope others will be blessed with its truths. The truth shall set you free.

Zoe


(The young woman who sent me the review below has been around the world and back again when it comes to religious studies and spiritual activities, so I am honored to have her review Jehovah Unmasked)

The Mask is off, and who would have thought Satan would be smirking under there? Sound outrageous? When you read this important book and sort things out, it really makes sense. Why would a loving father play mind games, setting traps and making threats in a "Garden of Eden?" It never made sense. I can clearly remember learning the story at a young age and being dubious about this "God." If he didn't want them to eat of the tree, then why was it there? If God were all-powerful and loving, why would he not have just concealed the tree altogether so as to avert harm to his children, whom he loves?

My own father wouldn't have played such psychological games with me, so why would I trust an invisible, frightening, violent, judgmental Daddy-in-the sky, who would? A Father does not loom and spy, waiting for his child to err.

This book is well researched and clearly illustrates the farce of mistranslation and lies the Old Testament really is. Those who seek the truth, who want the facts, and who hold these efforts as more important than blind faith, will find in the pages of Jehovah Unmasked compelling evidence that God isn't who we thought he was. Those who think for themselves can't help resonate with what the author is pointing out in the pages of this important work.

Does Jesus' message, and the suppressed teachings of his closest disciples, his mother, and of his spiritual wife, Mary Magdalene, have anything in the world to do with the crazed killing machine of the Old Testament? I think not. Read the book, Christians, and come to the ultimate conclusion that it might be far wiser to conduct yourself as a Christian than to simply claim you are one. If you really believe that Jesus' "father" is the dark force of hatred and war in the Old Testament, there is absolutely no hope for us. If you read this book, maybe you'll change your mind, and your heart. Heather Anne


(I received the email below from a reader of Jehovah Unmasked, even though my book isn't specifically aimed at Jehovah's Witnesses, but is for all Fundamentalist and Mainstream Christians and Jews. This man benefited from it tremendously. These are the kinds of letters that cause me to want to keep on doing what I'm doing)

Dear Nathaniel:

I loved it! It took more than two hours to read my first time through,and I'm going back for more. Twenty-nine years I was a devout Jehovah's Witness. I knocked on a gazillion doors through blazing sun and knee-deep snow, and conducted many home Bible studies. I felt I couldn't do enough as The End was supposedly coming any day now, and I ran myself into the ground over and over and over. This completely ruined my health. I am disabled with chronic fatigue for the past 18 years, and believe I will never get well again. My "unshakable faith" in Jehovah God over the years drained thousands and thousands of dollars from my ragged and needy family.

Due to my "heartfelt dedication," I have been evicted from two homes, worn nothing but second hand clothes and drove jalopy cars one after another with leaking radiators and recapped tires, struggling to court every six months for the last five years that I was a Jehovah's Witness to stand before the judge and try to answer for debts I wasn't able to pay. Through it all I was a happy man, for I imagined I had "Jehovah's rich blessing."

I'm a sincere guy Nathaniel, and a straight shooter. I started life with a fire in my belly and a hell of a lot of talent. In 1970 I read one of the Watchtower Society's little spiritual narcotic books, and didn't wake up for twenty-nine years. That was six years ago. I'm just now clearing the fog out of my mind. You must take a lot of shit from people with a book like Jehovah Unmasked, and not just from Jehovah's Witnesses. From all kinds of Fundamentalists. Well, I'm here to tell you from experience, everything I've read is right on the money. Also, you've got BIG BALLS, Nathaniel! I'm ordering more copies of Jehovah Unmasked tomorrow.

Keep up the good work my friend, and don't let the Fundamentalist crazies get you down. Please don't publish my name - if word gets around, the people I'm trying to deprogram at the local Kingdom Hall will cover their ears and run from me. One is nine-tenths deprogrammed now, and I hope she'll be pointing out a few more weary souls.

All the best to you Nathaniel!
(Name Withheld)

(These two folks are also former Jehovah's Witnesses, and they enjoyed the book as well)

Dear Nathaniel,

I am enjoying the daylights out of your book. I'm not entirely through as I'm reading slow and careful. I'm finding the second half a lot more enjoyable than the first. Had some difficulty with your advancing the idea Adam was to select a mate from the animals as I believed (and taught) that it wasn't until seeing the mates of the animals he was assigned to name that he realized there was no counterpart to himself. After which he became lonely.

So I looked up your reference in my Jerusalem Bible and have to admit you were right. How is it a man can read the Bible over and over and not see what is right in front of his eyes? How is it "Jehovah of Armies," and "Jehovah is a mighty man of war," never sunk in? And dashing babies against the wall? Not a god I care to be friendly with.

It is obvious your book is the truth Nathaniel, and my last love for Jehovah (or was it fear) has fallen away like rusted-on scales I thought would be hanging on forever. I am most grateful for what you've done.

You must take a lot of heat for publishing this, but so does everyone who takes a stand for the truth. I have been taking shit from the blind and ignorant since grade school. Principals and teachers included. And for some reason I have never been attracted to Jesus. Not ever. I like the things he said and the way he conducted himself, but the way people treat him really turns me off. In my eyes he's a man much like myself, and I do not believe he wanted to be worshipped or even looked up to.

Well, thanks to you I'm a free man Nathaniel Merritt. After all these years of struggle, here it seems I've only crossed the bay, and now some great ocean I never saw before lies before me. I hope to live long enough to make some sense out of it all.

Thanks for all you've done my friend. People often say that if only one person benefits from the things they've written then all their effort will have been worth the while. Well, if you've thought that yourself Nathaniel, here's your man right here - with a warm smile and a handshake.

Hope to be waiting for you on the other side. Be nice to sit and talk a while. My beard might well be to my waist by then, my hair as well. Most likely I'll be smoking one of my beloved pipes.

All the best,
Bob Garland
Franklin, Massachusetts

• Remove the scales from your mind's eye... by Heather S.

Wed 30 Nov 4:07 pm EST 2005
I highly recommend reading Jehovah Unmasked. I have long struggled with the split personality of the Bible god Jehovah. On the one hand he is supposed to be a god of love who is very forgiving. On the other, he seems awfully quick to judge and smite, often in a violent, bloody way. Trying to make sense of the stark contrast can tie your brain and heart into knots.

Jehovah Unmasked offers a very good explanation for why Jehovah seems so split in his personality. Is Jehovah who we've been taught he is?

Jehovah Unmasked also tells us the source of the modern day Bible book collection & whether there were other books that were left out and why.

This book has helped me to have a more healthful view of Jehovah and the Bible God of love. My life has a better quality to it, since reading Jehovah Unmasked. As a child I did not fear God. I became involved in a religion that ingrained an unhealthy fear of God that was very hard to shake. That is, as long as I was not educated as to the real nature and origin of Jehovah. I realize now that when something sounds to be the complete opposite of love, it probably is not love, no matter what religionist claims it is love.

Jehovah Unmasked, is informative & well written so it is easy to understand and entertaining as well. The author is quite witty and deftly uses humor where it's most needed. If you are searching for a better understanding of the dark side of Jehovah, this is a must read.

Heather S.


(This fellow, Steve Harper, was not a Jehovah's Witness, though he did dabble in the Watchtower Cult a bit before reading Jehovah Unmasked)

Dear Nathaniel:

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I just finished reading Jehovah Unmasked and it's the best book I've ever read! It finally brings the pieces of the puzzle together, at least for me. You and I are the same age. Although I have never attended a service with the JW's, I did read the Watchtower on numerous occassions. I also dabbled with Buddhism. Over the last 20 years I've struggled to comprehend how an all loving God would want to inflict so much pain and suffering on his children? Isn't it amazing the things that organized (Or as I refer to it, disorganized religion) taught us as children: God loves you! You are going to Hell, but God loves you! Sex is filthy, dirty, and disgusting, and you should save it for the one you really love! Okay, that's "not" exactly what I was told, but that's what I heard!

I will strongly encourage everyone I meet to read your book and I myself will continue to seek spiritual fellowship with the true God of Love.

Blessings,
Steve Harper

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