It seems that jws en masse are choosing to marginalise, dismiss and ignore the damning paedophilia issue. Why? That's the standard tactic when truth penetrates and can't simply be 'babled' over the top of - when recognised it's a bit of an internal shock - pretending is the chosen solution. An arrogant lie is certainly the way to insist on the direction of your will - it's the shunning that isn't shunning, the religion that isn't religion, the clergy that aren't clergy.............
Pretending is an effective escape from reality - with practice, even your soul joins in on the sharade.
We just had a former AP journalist discuss this with us in communications class. He said that he was sometimes surprised by the reactions of people to some of the articles he wrote. He said that sometimes people don't want to hear the truth.
Our perception of the world is what our reality is constituted of. Each person sees it from a different perception. We create a perception based on our cultural conditioning and the various things that happen to us in our lives. If we are secure with the way we see things, we will be resistant to changing our perception, even if we are given evidence to the contrary about its validity. That's why child molesters can continue to justify their actions and racists can continue to hate.It's also a large part of the reason that JWs prefer to ignore the child molestation issue--they need to believe the perception that their leaders are the sole channel being used by God to bring salvation to the earth.When faced with the questions "If Jehovah chooses all the elders by holy spirit, why do some of them molest children, and "Why is the organization as whole denying that child molestation is a problem within the organization that needs to be dealt with?", it's easier to kill the messenger than deal with a blow to their spiritual paradise.
