"Shocking as it is, even some who have been prominent in
Jehovah's organization have succumbed to immoral practices,
including homosexuality, wife swapping, and child molesting" - Watchtower of
January 1st, 1986
You raise an interesting point. It has always struck me as curious that many--maybe even most--people will avoid recognizing the obvious truth when it confronts them in undeniable ways.
Never knowing any of the GB directly, I can only speculate. But they are human too and subject to the same failings as all of us, perhaps more so due to the universal isolation from living in the real world combined with lack of higher education among any of them.
For these and perhaps other reasons, they have demonstrated a now institutionalized willingness to sweep issues under the rug that would otherwise force them to realize that this is NOT the "One True Religion" and they are NOT part of "the anointed," "The Faithful and Discreet Slave" and that even their role as "Governing Body" is all a delusional farce.
This may help explain why there is such a clearly top-down cover-up of the pedophile problems within the WTBTS.
It would be nice if the media would focus a spotlight on the JW coverup of pedophiles, but as you observed, "
the scale is much, much smaller within Jehovah’s
Witnesses."
"We need to focus on the institution. ... Show me that it came from the top down!" - Line from the movie: Spotlight
