First of all, I want all of the "ApostoCrews" ( thanks, SYN, for creating the word ) to refrain from name callings and use of bad languages. Let's try to run this thread as rational as possible.
You Know, first I thank you for your reply. You mentioned:
The way I see it both sides are wrong. Not that I am unsympathetic to the Silentlambs movement, the victims of abuse that is, aside from the fact that as I have mentioned previously, the Silentlambs are being exploited by apostates to further their ends, but it seems to me that there is not a whole lot that can be done. Like I have said before, tinkering with Watchtower policies, or calling the cops, or whatever, is not going to stop other beastial men from raping and molesting children.
If these "apostates" didn't make this much of publicity, do you think anyone would pay attention to the molestation policy which I didn't know until I saw Dateline. Even some of the elders in my former congregation didn't know about this until I asked them. A child is molested. She didn't have two eye witnesses, and she was sent back to her molester for more abuse. What was a Christian supposed to do? Just let it go until she gets molested to death ( possibly by suicide)? Aren't we supposed to help the ones in need? Isn't that what Christ taught us in the Bible? Isn't it why the JWs go door to door - to help the neighbors? What was I supposed to do as a good Christian if I knew a child who had been molested by a jw? What would you do if she was your child and she couldn't provide 2 witnesses who saw her being molested?
The other side of the coin is that the Watchtower has a lot to answer for, and the way child abuse has been handled is only a very small part of what ails the Watchtower Society. As one of Jehovah's Witnesses I fully expect and anticipate Jehovah's judgment to lay the Watchtower low. I don't know exactly how that's going to happen, but I suspect that when once global warfare erupts, possibly as soon as the next few months judging by the increasing intensity of the beating of the war drums, that the financial system will crash, which will make it virtually immpossible for the Watchtower to carry on its large scale printing operations. Then each Witness will have to come to terms with the real issue, and not the phony ones presented before us by the Devil. The real issue will be whether we have faith in Jehovah God even when everything seems to be going wrong, when what we have been taught about the future appears to be all wrong. That's when we will have to step up and provide an answer to Christ's somewhat disturbing question that he posed, saying: "When the Son of man arrives, will he really find the faith on the earth?" I don't think the Watchtower is going to be there to offer much encouragment to the faithful to help them through, and I am sure Bill Bowen won't be anywhere to be found when Jehovah drops the hammer. / You Know
I cannot honestly say you are wrong or right because I'm a mere human being who cannot forsee the future. I just hate to see the people being misled, pressured and condamned by the JWs just because they (people like Bill and others) pointed out their (the JWs') dirty laundry. There might be more victims within the organization who might be too young to act alone. Unless the WTS gets punished by the court of law severly, I don't think anyone would pay attention to those hidden victims.
I was so upset when I read the JW Zone thread. I also read their thread on the Canadian girl who needed blood tranfusion. What they said about her father made me so angry. I guess it was his sin for loving his daughter too much.
Sigh......I guess I'm really an apostate. May God have mercy on me. Sorry for making you post on this subject again. I'm relatively new, and I must have missed your posts before.
