The WTS will condemn the recent murder and do its best to distance itself from the parents. JWs will say it’s the actions of people who are deranged and nothing to do with JW’s. They will say other religious groups harm children. However, only those with knowledge of the WTS really know how culpable the organization is for this crime and many others.
What outsiders and journalists do not realize is the extent that the WTS regulate the everyday actions of JWs. Other religious groups have little control over their followers. The WTS basically commands its followers to preach and meet five times a week. The influence spreads into the areas of personal association, dress , grooming and even in sexual matters between married couples. It is therefore wholly unacceptable for an organization, having so much control over the minutiae of people’s private lives, to say what it does about the physical disciplining of children….and to leave so much unsaid.
Scotland has recently banned the physical punishment of children under 3. England hasn’t in that it believes its laws based on reasonableness protect children of all ages. The WTS prides itself in being a ‘spiritual nation’ of 6 million people…more than some countries. Does it seek to protect children from abusive parents? The smacking of children of all ages is commonplace during the meetings themselves. It is looked upon favourably. There is no hint that this treatment of children is unacceptable. Even though it is simply unreasonable to expect children to sit for so long… at times they often should be in bed. What happens at home is anyone’s guess. But we now know only too well in this case what can happen behind closed doors. This is another example of the standards of the world being higher than those set out by the WTS. The WTS looks down on the ‘world’ and ‘worldly’ people without realizing their own standards are of the gutter.
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