A post from one of the members:
We have to look at things in a balanced way and get things in prespective
Firstly, this case is not over. If an organization is going to be held financially accountable
for the actions of its ordinary members - even those formerly in a position of responsibility -
there will be an awful lot of religous and non-religious bodies that will be looking at this and
feeling mighty nervouse.
Secondly, no organization can be 100% free of sexual preditors, its simply impossible. We have
to accept that. Wasn't Satan himself once an "active" member of the heavenly organization?
Thirdly even if this does go through it will be an opportunity for the brothers to identify any
weak spots in our policies - there have been changes over the years and this ultimately makes us
stronger.
Remember our history, in the 1950's we sufferered many defeats that later worked out for our favor.
Here in France we had a legal battle that lasted 16 YEARS! We lost and lost and lost again. The brothers
were VERY worried since if the law had gone through it would have meant the financial end to Jehovah's Witnesses
in France (as a people of course we cannot be stopped or legislated against but it would have been a legal
precident that would have had disastrous effects all over Europe).
But more importantly, as in this weeks Watchtower it speaks about the attack of Gog, we must understand
that the day will come when we have no legal recourse. At the moment we can expect justice but
the day is coming when our enemies WILL be "victorious", when we do have nowhere to turn, we probably
will loose all our beautiful bethel homes and properties as he closes in on us... what will we do then? Panic
like the Israelites at the red sea?
Yes, the apostates are milking this for all they can, before the higher courts no doubt overturn it and you can bet
you laptop they are avidly reading THIS thread and taking notes, what they want is that we are disheartened or
humiliated by this and there is absolutely no reason to be. If the brothers followed directives then they did all they
could, if they directives needed to be clarified they have since been. In the meantime, Jesus is in the driving seat; nothing
will happen to his earthly congregation that he doesn't allow.
