Today I had a nice experience: an evening meal with my father, a former elder and secretary. He stepped down a few years ago but remained a "stable" congregational member, and performing the ministerial servent job.
Tonight the conversation went on the Candace Conti cage. We are north western europeans but he read about it in a newspaper. He acknowledged that our believe has also problems with child abuse.
I told him about the list of 15.000 USA JW's that are known abusers. He acknowledged the fact that the WTS policy was to not involved police and authorities about these cases and told me that the WTS was very wrong.
I told him about Watchtower history, about real first president H.W. Conley, about the crazy Rutherford and his expensive houses and cars and drinking problem.
About our believe being a corporation with shareholders.
About some divisions of the WTBTS being a part of OVSE.
About the multi milion dollars at the WTBTS account.
About the 1 billion dollar real estate and property managers.
About the JW tradition not to say the truth about this all, but to stay silent or to deny what is going on.
He listened and told me the only good thing of our believe was helping him being stable in life. He called the JW culture a communist culture, and agreed with me that the WTS is a corporation.
Then he spoke about getting older and preparing for moving to the direction of my hometown.
This was a very remarkable night!
Gorby