NotFormer - “You mean that they're saying to the WT: ‘You're not the ultimate badass religion you think you are, we're just using you for training purposes…?”
No.
The WTS is small potatoes; secular courts couldn’t be bothered with that kind of pettiness… they just move onto the next one.
Norway did, however, make a public example of them…
…this case basically sent a message to any other churches out there who might be tempted to abuse taxpayers’ funds…
…“straighten the fuck up, and don’t try to pull shit over on us”.
But mostly, I’m suggesting that this served as a genuine test case to determine the viability of potentially - and effectively - kneecapping even worse offenders.
‘Cause they are out there.