Psychdigg: I just got on the board again and saw your post about Bill Bowen.
In typical JW-style you attack the person rather than the issue of child molestation. Your quote of one of Bill's posts in your thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=27390&site=3 is not at all valid evidence of Bill being vengeful, or losing perspective - but rather he points out the shear hypocrisy of the Watchtower so-called system of justice. A system that is wholly unchristian and uncivil by any reasonable standard of measurement ... except maybe with radical extremists groups.
Against the normally wise comments of Kismet regarding ignoring people who jump out with personal attacks as you have done, I have decided on a different course. Most of my life I 'turned the other cheek' - but - as another very wise person once told me, there is a point in life where if you keep turning the other cheek, your head will spin off.
You conveniently side-step the serious sex crime issue prevalent in the Watchtower Pedophile Paradise - just as the Catholic Church officials have done so - and now it is coming home to roost. I would say that the Watchtower and the Catholic Church are two peas in a pod, except that at least Roman Catholics are speaking out against this crime, and not side-stepping and making excuses for their church.
Please adress the following:
What about the many thousands of JW children harmed by the cover-up of pedophiles in the organization? Do you care about them or their parents?
What should be done with the JW leaders who have directed JW Elders to not report pedophiles to authorities?
What about the lawsuits now taking place and that have taken place with respect to JW children who have finally gooten the courage to speak out ... and while civil society is giving them some sense of real justice, they have ended up shunned by their own JW friends? they have been made victims twice.
Do you have any concept at all as to how terrible this crime is? Do you see that the very fact that JW parents typically do not report this crime is because they are either afraid of being shunned, or they are so blinded by misguided loyalty that they act more to protect the marketing image of their religion than the more improtant interests of their own children?
Are you at all aware of the long term damage to children who have been molested? Do you understand how this impacts their relationships in life, and their own future marriages?
Show some balls to address these issues. Stick with debating how this best can be resolved. Deal with the best help and healing available to these children.
Those who care about truth and serious issues "do not" shoot the messenger, as you are attempoting to do by attacking Bill Bowen; rather, those who care about truth and are honest with themselves, stick to the issue, deal with and debate solutions to the concerns, and address the message head on.
The Watchtower leaders are dodging and side-stepping because they cannot face the truth. Why? Because were they to openly deal with the truth, they would have to close their religious publishing business, give the money to the victims, and admit to their followers their complicity ... and stop the chrade that they are some kind of special agents of God.