Jehovah's Witness leader rails against higher education as it might cause "spiritual disaster."

This comes to us courtesy of The Friendly Atheist: 

Jehovah’s Witnesses Governing Body member Tony Morris is the host of the January video on the new JW online television network and what he says is a terrifying tirade against higher education.

Here are a few excerpts from this tirade:  

… all too often, our young people have met with spiritual disaster, especially after leaving home and living on a university campus. So parents and children, you need to have a goal and you need to have a plan. If you’re missing either one, Satan will provide it for you. Young people, ask yourself: Why am I considering additional education? Is it because I’m pursuing a specific skill or trade to support my service to Jehovah? Or have I been pressured by the system into believing that higher education will somehow make me a more respected person or lead me to a better life?

So to be clear, education is a tool of Satan that Jehovah's Witnesses do not need. Since all that they need is available through faith.

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If we are in continued association with those who do not believe the same, it can erode our thinking and convictions… It is one thing to work on a job with others, and quite another matter to immerse oneself in an institution of “learning.”

In other words the only way this faith can possibly survive is if these people ONLY  interact with like minded folks and avoid anyone of a different faith of philosophy.

Here's a bit more: 

I have long said: the better the university, the greater the danger. The most intelligent and eloquent professors will be trying to reshape the thinking of your child, and their influence can be tremendous. One mom, I recall, asked me to try and help her son who was attending a prestigious-name university in Rhode Island. After visiting him, I later had to inform her that her son now believed in evolution. She refused to believe it until he finally told her himself. How sad.

Oh my God! They taught that poor child the dreaded evolution!

I have to admit that it is not often that a religious leader so clearly states that they their religious faith simply cannot stand up to scrutiny or that their only hope of holding onto congregants is to keep them as undereducated as possible.

But that is exactly what this guy just said in NO uncertain terms.

And let's face it he may be a Jehovah's Witness but his concerns are shared by the majority of religious leaders in this country, and beyond.