WHY PAEDOPHILES MIGHT BE ATTRACTED TO JWS

by badboy 11 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse

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  badboy

  I HAVE READ THAT PAEDOPHILES TEND TO BE MORE RELIGIOUS IN NATURE.
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  DJK

  Do you have a specific resource to quote from?
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  badboy

  i read this on the3arguidos.net forum
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  jamiebowers

  I think pedophiles (the male ones anyway) are attracted to the JW's, because they know right off that women and children are subservient to men. The fact that the WTB&TS covers for them is just gravy.
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  Hope4Others

  Or perhaps witnesses let their guards down way too much, and they are just too trusting. So they are easy prey!

  

  hope4others
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  DJK

  i read this on the3arguidos.net forum

  I just took a peek at that site. Looks interesting, when I have more time I'll search it some more. Thanx
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  badboy

  I think the inormation is in the diplomatic immunity thread,methinks. JUSTICE FOR MADELEINE FORUM

  Don't forget to look out for me.
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  MMae

  Quote from an enprisoned Child Rapist: "Show me an obedient child, I will show you an easy victim."

  Obedience, particularly unquestioning obedience, is deeply ingrained in the JW psyche. Parents are expected to beat this into their children from a very, very young age. JW children are taught to ignor what their own bodies and minds are telling them about their world. (A young child being forced to sit in a stiffled manner for several hours a week is a good example of training her to ignor body signals about what seems natural and comfortable. A little older child who is shamed or made fearful when he questions practices and doctrines, learns not to question adults that have some roll of authority over him, especially within the congregation.)

  My parents were not JW (they were "interested persons.") My mother was very heavy handed and questioning was out of the question. My step-father preyed upon that fear to keep our silence: "If your mother finds out, we will BOTH be in trouble" [This was true, BTW;] "If you tell, I will go to jail. Then there won't be enough money to pay the rent, and all your brothers and sister will be out in the street. (Since it was winter and we lived in Alaska, this was a life or death kind of threat.)

  I can see this same techneque being used on a JW child: "If anyone finds out, we'll both be disfellowshipped. If we are disfellowshipped and Armeggedon comes, we will die forever." It won't matter if the child has been baptized or not. He or she has been hearing about disfellowshipping long before s/he is old enough to be baptized.
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  R.Crusoe

  I would guage this to be at least a twofold issue!

  Their religion insists on forgiveness!

  Any country in the world has certain TABOO connotations to behaviours amongst its members! e.g. Muslim women having sex before marriage or sex with minors in western countries or drugs in far eastern places etc etc.

  JWs treat each of these groups as potential acceptable human beings if they truly take on the mantle of belief in their one true god!

  So some genuinely sinful but repentrant souls will feel love amongst such ones that their own society refuses them!

  Additionally, any who are devious enough to see this may use it as a shelter.

  So the irony is some may be genuine and others devious but each may be branded the same!

  The other trouble is that when the faith fails to live up to its promise, the individual is due a big fall and may likely fall into ways previously seen as escapism from the pains of religious ideology .

  And since JWs are so skilled at isolating souls from regular society and the cultural TABOOS therein, it is not difficult to see how such taboos may well appear much less serious than the public at large view them as!

  Additionally, an individual convinced God has rejected them for not living up to their plethora of rules is likely to give up on morality and half think what is there to lose since they are dead meat anyhow! It could lead to previously rejected behaviours being considered as possibilities whilst the individual is more or less resigned to their own 'brainwashed' Armageddon!

  So lots to consider and none of it rigid - there is in fact much more self regulation going on in some despite their personal rejection of themselves whilst in others it comes as an excuse to let go all restrictions ! Many variables at play but its worth knowing some of what may be influencing peoples thoughts!
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  Lady Lee

  OK Hold on here. You have two different statements and one has nothing to do with the other

  WHY PAEDOPHILES MIGHT BE ATTRACTED TO JWS

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  I HAVE READ THAT PAEDOPHILES TEND TO BE MORE RELIGIOUS IN NATURE.

  WHY PAEDOPHILES MIGHT BE ATTRACTED TO JWS

  Personally I don't think a pedophile sits around to analize the opportunities for access to victims in various religions. I do think that a person who considers children as potential targets might initially think that studying the Bible with JWs might help him or her control the urges to abuse. Once "in" they may realize just how inept the WTS is in helping with deviant behaviors. And then the pedophile discovers the easy access to children and decides to act on the urges. And once the victimization has started the pedophile realizes how easy it is to get away from acting out on their fantasies.

  Your second comment I HAVE READ THAT PAEDOPHILES TEND TO BE MORE RELIGIOUS IN NATURE Of my 13 abusers

  • 3 - I don't know how religious they were
  • 5 - never went to church - not even for holidays
  • 1 - was studying with the JWs and most definitely not a spiritual person - he was the true pedophile with at least 6 victims (that I know of) - mind you this one may have been more a sex addict as well as a pedophile
  • 3 - were baptized JWs but that doesn't necessaily mean they were religious - they may have just been following the rules - only 1 is still a JW
  • 1 - I would say was a true believer (yup a JW) - when he wasn't busy being an abuser

  OK so I'm a small sample but . . . whether pedoplhiles are more religious than non pedophiles - I'd like to see the research on that one!