I personally cannot see what is so offensive about YK's post. It was certainly not attacking abuse victims, it questioned the fact that in Mr. Bowen is structuring and organizing 'Silentlambs' to be more effective children might then become even more victimized. These things need to be rationally discussed, not just reacted to.
What YK seems to find so upsetting is that 'apostates' are using the child-abuse issue as a weapon, outside the agenda of child-abuse issues, to attack and damage the WTS.
Robert of course we are! Why would we not? The way that child-abuse issues are handled is just symptomatic of the deeply seated malaise that the WTS suffers from. Its desire to promote itself as THE ORGANIZATION, the only organization that God is using on the planet is precarious to say the least. In order to preserve this myth, they then move to practice the dangerous art of cunning and emotional brutality against their adherents.
Yes, the child-abuse issue is the weapon of choice of apostates at the moment, the UN was one a while ago, and tomorrow it may be another issue. Until the WTS learns that the "Mountain Of The House Of Jehovah towards which the Happiest People On Earth stream is not something that they know anything about in reality, this will continue to be the scenario.
HS
Edited by - hillary_step on 19 August 2002 12:38:54