"This is what the Bible directs," Semonian said. "If someone is writing or causing dissension, we would meet with them -- two elders (congregation leaders) usually -- and discuss the matter. If indeed, he were causing dissension as the book of Ecclesiastes describes it, we'd 'readjust the man in a spirit of mildness.' You'd calmly discuss it together so you can bring them back to their senses. There is no automatic excommunication. We want to keep our members."
Sounds like a unilateral definition of discussion and dissension to me.
…You'd calmly discuss it together so you can bring them back to their senses…
If the table was turned, what recourse does
the man have if he actually
had a point and the ‘thinking’ of those running the ‘judicial hearing’ required an adjustment? None, and few if any revenue generators (uninformed Jehovah’s Witnesses) would ever know if
the man had a valid grievance or not.
Sounds more like a behind closed doors, employee/management hearing prior to the announcement that the former individual is fired from a Corporation for potentially exposing the Corporation of burying dangerous engineering practices than a cosmically sanctioned, loving arrangement designed on the behalf of and for the betterment of 'lost' mankind.
Theocracy - a parasitic dictatorship that thrives, buried deep inside a democracy.
Flip