Former members Heather and Gary Botting compare the cultural paradigms of the religion to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, and Alan Rogerson describes the religion's leadership as totalitarian. Other critics charge that by disparaging individual decision-making, the religion's leaders cultivate a system of unquestioning obedience in which Witnesses abrogate all responsibility and rights over their personal lives. Critics also accuse the religion's leaders of exercising "intellectual dominance" over Witnesses, controlling information and creating "mental isolation", which former Governing Body member Raymond Franz argued were all elements of mind control. COUNT 5
QSN1 What do former Jehovah's Witnesses members Heath and Gary Botting compare the culture of the religion to? ANS1 Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four QSN2 Who describes the Jehovah's Witnesses' leadership as being totalitarian?  ANS2 Alan Rogerson QSN3 How do the leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses cultivate a system of unquestioning obedience? ANS3 disparaging individual decision-making QSN4 What do critics of the Jehovah's Witnesses accuse the religion's leaders of exercising over members? ANS4 "intellectual dominance" QSN5 What did former Governing Body member Raymond Franz argue the methods employed by the religion were all elements of? ANS5 mind control