I like that MauiBoy: “If someone knows what is right to do, and doesn’t do it… it is a sin”
The GB use the same “get out of jail free card” that their Father & “Mother” use. Are they above the law?
(Leviticus 5:1) . . .“‘Now in case a soul sins in that he has heard public cursing and he is a witness or he has seen it or has come to know of it, if he does not report it, then he must answer for his error.
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Really, to report wrongdoing is an act of Christian principled love shown toward God, toward the congregation, and toward the wrongdoer.
Is that really what happens to the ones who report pedophilia? What about those who testify in their defense? What do you read in the WT, vs. what really happens?
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Today, the vast majority of brothers and sisters in congregations throughout the earth work hard to preserve the spiritual cleanness of the congregation by individually maintaining an approved standing before God. Some suffer to do so; others have even died in order to keep integrity.
Surely to condone or cover up wrongdoing would show a lack of appreciation for these efforts.
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In his first letter, Paul wrote: “Actually fornication is reported among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, … (that a wife a certain man has of his father—1 Corinthians 5:1..)”
What about pedophilia? Should it not be reported? Is this worse than the nations? How many witnesses think "It is only in my congregation." or "Jehovah will take care of things?" As has been brilliantly noted: Jehovah can take care of the preaching work, but not the children?
More importantly, what about the "Christian" lawyers who defend the pedophiles in trial? The lawyers who make the victims feel as if they are the bad people?
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The psalmist David said: “I have not sat with men of untruth ; and with those who hide what they are I do not come in .” (Psalm 26:4) Surely, then, we would not want to become accomplices of “those who hide what they are.”
Have you ever listened to the “GB sanctioned lawyers” in a trial?
Have you ever been disfellowshipped for testifying in a trial?
If you were a victim, how would you be treated after the trial?
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“Surely, then, we would not want to become accomplices of “those who hide what they are.””
Will you become an accomplice?