But rather than simply dismissing the Great Pyramid’s divine significance and imploring God’s forgiveness for being so silly, Rutherford went one step further. He claimed the whole thing was a conspiracy of Satan, who had orchestrated the pyramid’s construction as a “subtle scheme” to “draw men away from Jehovah and his service.” Hence, after 47 years, one preposterous idea (that God built the Great Pyramid of Gizeh) was merely supplanted by another (that Satan did). Rutherford’s baffling claim has been given no further corrective treatment in subsequent publications, nor has it ever been
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