The posts here are flooding in on the subject of the Watchtower’s toleration of sexual abuse being publicised in the world media. Sure they print and say its wrong like everyone else does but what their policies show above all is the lack of genuine, humane care and considerate welfare for its members. There must be so many voiceless JW victims and perhaps now they can speak out.
The thrust of the publishing religion is to make money by pretending to be a squeaky clean preaching business. It is happy to dispense what they imagine is divine wisdom from the Bible as if it can be the only recipe for resolving problems. Here lies its weakness and the downfall of the JW org. Both it and the Bible are out of date and recklessly misleading people.
By insisting on the Biblical “two witnesses” they invoke mockery for being foolish and literal when two witnesses are never normally present when sexual abuse takes place. However to deny the Biblical method goes against the grain of their teachings and if they stubbornly put their own literalist dogma ahead of compassion and the law they will invite censure and ridicule. The Bible is hereby shown to be very deficient in the matter of regulating sex offenders. And the Watchtower maintains an air of authority by not compromising.
Doesn’t this show how much of a bind the JW org is in? Will they compromise?