$$$Why I thought of this interchange was because I wonder why your perspective doesn't focus on the victims in this story. Of course, most of the Witnesses aren't molesters. God, my siblings and I were victims and we still know that. So what?$$$
The perspective that non posted was designed to counter charges that jw is a pedo paradise. Not so. But non and other jws are concerned about the victims of child abuse. Many of jw are parents. We love our children and do not want them going through severe trauma as a result of some person who just could not exercise self-control or who has some type of behavioral problem. It is therefore unfair for you to imply that non does not care about the victims. He does. Non also hates unjust portrayals though.
$$$I've mentioned this before here, but your logic reminds me of a former roommate I had, a German. We were watching a documentary on the Hollocaust and after it was done he says to me, "You know it was a great lie. 6 million Jew didn't die. It was only a million."
I replied, "That's the most insensitive thing I've ever heard!"$$$
Non does not think the comparison is a fair one at all. The Holocaust has been extensively documented and one has good reason to believe that at least 6 million jews were killed in that tragedy. The numbers that non brought up in his post are fair in view of the allegations hurled at jws.
$$$Jehovah's Witnesses do not preach the Christian Good News. The Christian Good News is summarized in the first few verses of 1 Corinthians 15:
Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.$$$
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.
You are being reductionistic. You are guilty of nothing-but-ness. Paul preached about God's kingdom too.
$$$This is not the "good news" that Jehovah's Witnesses talk about when they come to people's doors.$$$
jw preach the same message as Paul and Jesus. But the good news has many different facets.
$$$They want to talk about their inaccurate chronology and a kingdom that was supposedly established invisibly in Heaven in 1914. They want to tell people about the paradise earth that will exist after God removes "the wicked" from the earth (not mentioning that "the wicked" includes the householder to whom they are speaking).$$$
When Paul encouraged his nonChristian contemporaries to repent, did he tell them that the wicked he was condemning was they?
$$$They want to tell people about God's one true organization, to which one must attach oneself to have a hope of surviving mass destruction by their insane god. But the elements that Paul mentions in the above quotation - the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ - rarely, if ever, come into their discussion of the "good news".$$$
The destruction of this wicked world is coming. Bet your bottom dollar on it. The bible says it is coming. Non also notices that you soften your claim now. You know that the elements you mention are not totally excluded from the jw message. The good news has many facets including the kingdom and Jesus's deathn and resurrection.
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The truth of God will prevail.Yes, it will. And when it does, the Watchtower will crumble. I think Dateline last night was a big step in that direction.$$$
If jw are God's organization, you will not be able to topple them with some puny Dateline show. But even from a sociological and psychological viewpoint, it is very doubtful that dateline will have the effect you want it to. Look at the history of the Catholic church. It has committed atrocious acts for hundreds of years and with what result? It has more zealots today than it ever did. One day the Catholics might fall in this world. But it will not be because of some show like Dateline.