the results of the last australian census are trickling out, and the results offer an insight into the changing concepts of contemporary aussies.. in 1966 only 0.8 % marked 'no religion' on their census form.. in 2001 those marking 'no religion" had grown to 16%.. and in 2016 those marking 'no religion" had grown to 29.6%.. so more non-believers than any other group.
catholics (the previous largest group) were now only 22.5% of australians.. ________________________.
the other interesting change is language,.
In the JW congregation that covers my area in the 2016 Australian census over 10% of the members had actually changed from the Jehovah's Witness religion (from the previous census) to "No Religion" - all because of child abuse within the congregation. This is a very real albeit sad fact.
Below is a photo of the relevant part of my actual Australian 2016 census form.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0b-sccw9wai0qrkdwuhdgcwetcfe/view.
re: race.
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video published on official jw website:.
https://jw-russia.org/news/17062022-182.html.
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The below scene was staged by Watchtower:
how did they ever get away with that and how does it go down now, in today's society?.
its fucking mental.
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There are times when it is appropriate for a woman to wear a head covering . . .
video published on official jw website:.
https://jw-russia.org/news/17062022-182.html.
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video published on official jw website:.
https://jw-russia.org/news/17062022-182.html.
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hi .
trying to find info on the scandal involving mexican congregations not having prayers and singing at the meetings.. i have found some info on jw facts but would like more if anyone knows of a good website to look at.. watchtower observer had some info before but that website is long gone.. any help would be much appreciated.. thanks wgo..
Dunedain - I wonder if this also was part of the reason they specifically allowed Mexican Witnesses to lie about their political affiliation, and avoid jail time, but brothers in Africa had to DIE for their stance. I don't know for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if there wasn't a monetary reason behind that too.
I'm more inclined to believe there was a monetary reason behind the GB allowing Mexican JWs to freely lie while letting Malawi JWs to freely die.
Think about this: If Mexican JWs were persecuted then they would flee and end up across the border in the US. This would then make it the GBs responsibility and the congregations burden. Every dollar a JW in the US spent on a theocratic refugee would be one less dollar to donate to Watchtower.
how many times did we hear the worn out expression "that anyone who accepts the "truth" needs to have the 3 h's".
yes, they must be "honest hearted.
hungry for truth, and humble enough to accept that they need to change".
Honest - The governing body honestly needs your money.
Humble - The governing body is not too proud to demand and accept icecream money from children.
Hungry - The governing body is hungry for more money.
hi .
trying to find info on the scandal involving mexican congregations not having prayers and singing at the meetings.. i have found some info on jw facts but would like more if anyone knows of a good website to look at.. watchtower observer had some info before but that website is long gone.. any help would be much appreciated.. thanks wgo..
As I mentioned via the above link:
What Watchtower did in Mexico to maintain ownership of the kingdom halls when laws were passed that all religious buildings became state property for the benefit of the community. This did not affect worship but meant Watchtower could never flip the buildings for profit. Watchtower changed the building purpose and then gave the impression they were an education center (building). They also dropped the singing of songs
according to the uk charity commission, my old kingdom hall is hemorrhaging money and less is coming in.
long may it continue.. any ideas what a crappy, run down, shack of a kh spends £49,472.87 on in three years?
they were praying for a new hall for about 10 years until bethel basically stole it off them to build warwick.. .
Make a formal written complaint to the Charity Commission that you donated money to the JW hall and that there appears to be a six figure misappropriation of charity funds. You will remain anonymous but they won't.
