New article in local media how the JW church played a crucial role in finding Whitney Heichel's body.
The true part is that the JW community does come together at times of crisis to help each other, no critique of that. In fact, I helped out on a search one time. It is one of the positive things about being part of a tight knit community, even if your beliefs are indefensible and official church policy in other areas is more damaging than necessary.
I found it ironic however, that the JW search team was headed up by a witness who was a former para-rescueman in the Air Force Reserve. Now, I'm guessing, but I think the reason their search was so organized and succesful was because of this man's training from - his military background (and his firefighter training). So maybe a little praise needs to go to a worldly military organization that trained this church member in a skill that came in handy in a tragic situation.
But no - we can't do that. It doesn't matter that he had training from his military career...and his 30 years as a firefighter. It was something altogether different that made sure that their search mission was successful. I'll let the man himself say it:
"Any evidence they did locate up there would have been deteriorated, and her body would probably not have been found until next year with a hunter or something. That's why we really feel like there was divine intervention on this," he said.
I harped on this the other day, but I just can't help it when I read shit like this. Why do they have to credit divine intervention on the success of finding her body? That's fucking stupid, even for a JW. It just boggles the mind, the stupidity of that statement.
If divine intervention is oh so great, where the fuck was it when Whitney needed a little intervention in dealing with her attacker?
