Jah creats loving individuals, satan misleads them , Jehovah then lovingly gives us another chance and provides his son, and still satan misleads us yet Jehovah again forgives and forgives and warns us about satan and yet sadly still some blame Jah, when clearly its SATAN...Hmmmmmmm
With all due respect, I would like to point out one of the hidden issues of child abuse -- spirituality. When a child first learns the concept of god, the child oftentimes thinks of god as something like Santa Claus. So when the child asks for a toy, or some other treat, and that prayer is not answered, the child may be disappointed but learns something about how god works.
When a child of abuse makes that same prayer, there is always one thing that child asks for -- Please make it stop. When that prayer is not answered, the child of abuse experiences a side of god no one else does. That child experiences a cold god, a god who doesn't listen and doesn't care.
This is the type of scar a child of abuse carries into adulthood, and the type no one else sees or is aware of. Again, with all due respect, the simple answers of Jehovah's Witnesses do not address the complex problems of child abuse. To give a simplistic answer that all human suffering is laid at the feet of an invisible and silent creature, while at the same time encouraging the same person to seek help from another invisible and silent creature, only serves to set the abuse victim up for failure. It teaches the abuse victim that god is capricious, capable of helping others but not them. And, even worse, it serves to reinforce feelings of worthlessness and guilt. It teaches them that god doesn't love them, or views them as dirty or contaminated or that somehow the abuse was their fault. How? Because the victim hears others talk of how god helped them conquer this or that problem, and in their heart all they know and feel is the cold unresponsive god who stood by uncaring while they were raped.
Of course god will not answer their prayer. Of course the abuse will not stop. To tell them god hears all prayers, or even more sadistically, to telll them god hears only the prayers of true believers (and then put conditions on the defintion of a true believer) only serves to condemn the victim to more disappointment. They take in that sense of failure and make it about themselves.
It does no abuse victim any good whatsoever to ever lay blame for their rape at the feet of an invisible, remote and silent creature, anymore than it does to tell the same person to pray to another invisible, remote and silent creature for aid, comfort and/or encouragement.
Believe me when I say, all this does is to re-victimize the poor individual who has already been screwed over physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Believe me when I say Jehovah's Witnesses have nothing, absolutely not one word, of anything beneficial to say to a victim of child abuse.