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[jes]

With respect, I don't think the article gets every point wrong, but there may be some merit in what you have written.

I did a bit of reading. First, if you search the web, you can find articles about wire-rimmed glasses being banned for some period of time in some Jehovah's Witness congregations. I didn't find anything about gold-rimmed glasses specifically:

http://yucatan2012.com/Yucatan2012/MysticChristianity/E46336...

There is also some information on "Theocratic War Strategy," for example, in this Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses_practices

From the article cited above, there is this quote attributed to the Watchtower Society:

"It is proper to cover over our arrangements for the work that God commands us to do. ...."

[protomyth → jes]

I'm not sure I would link a source that is about "Christian and Mayan spirituality and our approach to health and fitness" that gets all its information from a site called towerwatch.com with the motto "Helping Christians Reach Jehovah's Witnesses with the Gospel of Our Savior Jesus Christ".