article in newspaper on Barb Anderson + pedophiles

by Dogpatch 15 Replies latest jw friends

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  wednesday

  btt

  go Barbara- go Barbara -go Barbara
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  WTWizard

  I hope this is going to put a huge dent in the donations to the Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund boxes. And I hope those fake deficits at a$$emblies remain even more gaping, as they struggle to get even close to their actual expenses for these wastefests.
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  GermanXJW

  They still plan to invest Million $ in Wallkill.
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  binadub

  Testing.

  I haven't been able to get a reply to post in this thread.

  Ros
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  binadub

  I've been trying to post a comment to this thread and get an error message every time.

  There is no bad language in the post. Yet my little test message appeared above okay.

  Anybody have any idea why my message about the Watchtower's policy in this matter might be booted?

  Also, is Simon still the forum administrator?

  Thanks,
  ~Ros
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  binadub

  Okay, evidently the program doesn't like messages formatted in MSWord.

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  The Watchtower Society seems to take the position that it is not their business to require Jehovah's Witnesses to report criminal behavior of other Jehovah's Witnesses to law enforcement authorities or child services. Even though it is well known that members in the past have been severely disciplined, even disfellowshipped in local congregations, for reporting to civilian authorities, the Watchtower now claims they do not prohibit members from reporting crime to the authorities. Even in their stating this position their hypocrisy should be obvious to all.

  It's one thing to say they don't prohibit their members from reporting against other members; it's quite another thing to encourage them or require them to do so. And the Watchtower leadership knows full well that if they specifically directed their membership in a Watchtower article to report crime to law enforcement authorities, they would do so. But they don't publish such an article because they know their members are hesitant to report without specific instruction, and because they want to avoid, at all cost, all negative publicity that might cast a shadow of doubt among their members that they are uniquely "God's people." So they know full well that by their silence on the matter they encourage resistance to reporting so as not to "bring reproach on Jehovah's Name."

  For an organization that monitors just about every aspect of their members' lives from the moral aspect of their doctrine, isn't it interesting they don't consider it their place to advise members to report criminals? Wouldn't it be nice if they considered some other personal matters, like whether or not a member takes a blood transfusion, none of their business as well?

  Barbara is to be highly commended for her work to expose this organization's dereliction in their responsibilities to protect the children in their membership.
  
  ~Ros