He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother

In a public talk at a JW Convention in Macon, Georgia, in 1983 it was said that the song “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother,” sung by The Hollies, is a good description of the love taught in John 13:34-35. This bothered me for a long time, because Watchtower publications teach that John 13:35 is an identifying mark of the only true Christian religion and is characteristic of Jehovah’s Witnesses, but this was not my experience. It was my experience that non-JW relatives, schoolmates, workmates, and neighbors were often easier to get along with than Jehovah’s Witnesses. Also, I was taught that God's clean organization stands out compared to churches of Christendom, but over time I saw that, while there are good people among the Jehovah’s Witnesses, as an organization we were no better than the people and churches we condemned, we were just trained to look at the Watchtower Organization through rose coloured glasses. I left the Watchtower organization in 1985 and was born again in 1987.

The Hollies: He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother