the center for investigative journalism whose website is now called revealnews.org, has an entire section on stories being investigated by their staff and others on how the watchtower is handling child abuse cases.. "the jehovah’s witnesses have systematically instructed leaders to keep child sexual abuse secret from law enforcement and members of their own congregations.
" https://www.revealnews.org/topic/jehovahs-witnesses/.
please share you thoughts on this issue because i really would like to know when the governing body and their lawyers are going to properly address this issue because i can't worship in a place that allows dangerous men in, that's what they accused the catholic church of doing and now here it is that they are caught doing the same thing but have not expressed any concern for the victims.
Mica said: This would explain why when I was a child, and even as an adult, other witnesses minimized the brutality committed by my mother against her children.
The Bible supports abuse. Example:
Psalms 137:9: Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. - NIV
Religions' foundational books are full of harmful ideals.
i never thought i would admit it, but i don't.
i might superstitiously have some kind of doubt but digging a bit deeper in my heart i really don't believe in god.
as a human i could never just sit and watch people be tortured, live years of abuse, suffer from illness and disabilities and all the other awful things people have to endure day after day without doing something about it.
The Scotsman said: I still believe in a God - but not in Religion.
Serious question for you TS... I am curious why you only believe in a God and not a Goddess?
i don't think anyone's actually considered this, but a post in the extj.com forum made me think about the many changes (not just one) on the back cover of the awake!
magazine.
thanks to avoidjw.org for scanning all of the magazines in pdf format, since there is a lot lost with the wt library.. take a look at the following paragraphs in the awake´s back cover throughout the years:awake!
we are in need of a 2009 awake bound volume to complete the magazine project for avoidjw.
i have been able to scan 2 issues which are october and december, but we are in need of the other 10 issues for that year.
or, if someone has some pdfs of the awake's for that year we can bundle them together and send them over to avoidjw.. .
the center for investigative journalism whose website is now called revealnews.org, has an entire section on stories being investigated by their staff and others on how the watchtower is handling child abuse cases.. "the jehovah’s witnesses have systematically instructed leaders to keep child sexual abuse secret from law enforcement and members of their own congregations.
" https://www.revealnews.org/topic/jehovahs-witnesses/.
please share you thoughts on this issue because i really would like to know when the governing body and their lawyers are going to properly address this issue because i can't worship in a place that allows dangerous men in, that's what they accused the catholic church of doing and now here it is that they are caught doing the same thing but have not expressed any concern for the victims.
Mica said: I am of the opinion that something is deeply troubling at the top. One of the attorneys representing a victim in another case I read about said that the The Watchtower treats victims as adversaries.
Yes, this is correct. The authorities in the Watchtower shoot their wounded. They believe child rape is a sin, not a crime. With the Bible to prop them up, they are doing immeasurable harm.
the center for investigative journalism whose website is now called revealnews.org, has an entire section on stories being investigated by their staff and others on how the watchtower is handling child abuse cases.. "the jehovah’s witnesses have systematically instructed leaders to keep child sexual abuse secret from law enforcement and members of their own congregations.
" https://www.revealnews.org/topic/jehovahs-witnesses/.
please share you thoughts on this issue because i really would like to know when the governing body and their lawyers are going to properly address this issue because i can't worship in a place that allows dangerous men in, that's what they accused the catholic church of doing and now here it is that they are caught doing the same thing but have not expressed any concern for the victims.
l guess we all have our own reasons and thought it would give insight to others considering going to reconsider and not go.
I'm with sparrowdown, only I'll be re-arranging my sock drawer... again.
first some context to this post.
historically the elders meeting with the circuit overseer has had the following format : outline for meeting including ministerial servants then, after they have been dismissed, discussion of local issues.
the last visit there was an additional outline for the elders only, the notorious "gender blurring" discussion.. you might wonder what is being discussed this time round, so here you are:.
My Dad told me the CO "came to stir up trouble."
yep folks.. it's established scientific fact that micky mouse is the result of natural selection and colouring pencils... .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow79mksodjs.
GodZoo said: Walt Disney naturally selected the right colour pencils after his kids knicked some of them and then breaking the tips on a few others.. so 'naturally' he had to 'select' and make do with what was left.
GodZoo is incorrect about Walt Disney selecting the right colour pencils for the 1995 and 2004 Mickey Mouses in the image provided. Walt Disney died in 1966.
i thought this would be a good time to pose some questions based on the series so far.. if creationism is true these should be easy.
answers that don't involve copy-paste would be really interesting to read.. ... .
1. since some proteins can be assembled in more ways than there are atoms in the universe why do the sequences of amino acids and bases vary between species in exactly the way evolution predicts?
