Money-grubbing bastards! It's experiences like THIS that show me that God has long stopped being behind this "Organization", if he ever had been to begin with. (Probably not, what with all the pyramidology and convoluted BS)
What I find amazing, is that after the first $100,000 was "Donated" to the Org, that the members were actually gullible enough to start saving up AGAIN. If I'd have been in that Congregation and that had happened and we were then denied that major remodel, there is no way in hell I'd donate another cent to anything. That would have been IT!!!! But these poor gullible saps actually started saving up AGAIN? Just to have it demanded by Mother Org? And the Elder's wives and a few other members are still loyal to these crooks? That is some effective brainwashing & conditioning right there! Keep 'em coming back for more abuse!
Can you even imagine how those Elders must have felt, after the CO demanded they send in the next $70K that the Congregation had saved up? I mean, can you imagine having to sheepishly tell the flock that the CO and/or WT has demanded the rest of their hard-earned saved money? I wouldn't have done it. I would have withdrawn the money, given it back to the people who donated it with the accounting records I had, closed the account, told the CO to f*ck himself, and immediately resigned as Elder, and walked out of the KH never to return. What are they gonna do? For giving back the people's money from a private account that they themselves donated?
F*ck the money-grubbing WT Corporation.......and make no mistake about it; that's what this farce of a religion is - a CORPORATION.