As a former JW, I agree with your overview.

As an adjunct, and I wanted to say this to Brenda Reeves as well, once you realize how badly you've been misled, it seems like a duty to point it out.

Much like a survivor of a rattlesnake bite might try to warn everyone who goes into snake territory to keep their ears open.

There are aspects to any religion that are admirable.

Of course, those aspects are the same things that any civilized people would adhere to, without the need for the supernatural.

Once you start adding that in, things go off the rails. It becomes ok to hate people because they are not bowing before the same graven image...