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originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
a reply to: aniceday
they are a non-violent religion that does not believe in war or violence, and its members because they are peaceful cannot be radicalized to harm other people. (Which obviously is absurd and ridiculous.)
Yes we get that that is the outward appearance that they portray to the rank and file of the bible students. But if you start these threads expecting everyone to sympathize with a proven cult without any discussion you've come to the wrong place.
This is ATS - not bible class
After years of litigation, two men who claim to have been sexually abused as children by a Jehovah’s Witness in San Diego have settled their cases against the religion’s parent corporation, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. Judges in both cases had penalized the Watchtower millions of dollars for refusing to hand over documents detailing the organization’s knowledge of child sexual abuse going back decades in congregations across the U.S. The documents contain the names of what are likely thousands of abusers who were never reported to police. Instead, congregation leaders sent detailed logs of alleged abusers to headquarters. The lawsuits were brought by former Jehovah’s Witnesses Jose Lopez and Osbaldo Padron. Both say they were sexually assaulted by Gonzalo Campos, a Jehovah’s Witness who was promoted to the rank of elder, even after Watchtower officials learned that he had sexually abused children in his congregations. In a 2014 decision in the Lopez case, which the Watchtower appealed, San Diego Superior Court Judge Joan Lewis called the Watchtower’s refusal to hand over the documents “reprehensible.” “I think ‘disgraceful’ may be synonymous with ‘reprehensible,’ but I think ‘disgraceful’ doesn’t say enough about it,” she wrote. In 2016, the Watchtower acquiesced and began to hand the documents over to Irwin Zalkin, the attorney for the plaintiffs in both cases. The Watchtower provided the documents on the condition that they were placed under a protective order, meaning that Zalkin could not discuss their contents or share them with law enforcement agencies, reporters or the public.The cases marked the first time the Watchtower had allowed its mother lode of child sexual abuse files into the hands of anyone outside the organization. Settling the cases means that any chance of unsealing the documents remains, for now, out of reach.
originally posted by: aniceday
originally posted by: Raggedyman
originally posted by: aniceday
originally posted by: Raggedyman
a reply to: aniceday
Tell me where you live and I will knock on your door
Yeah I wouldn't think so, you wouldn't like that would you
Why not? Then I could convert you to the truth. Come and knock on my door any day or night, I will invite you in, give you something to drink and eat, and will treat you with love, and listen to you. And respect you. Then I will show you the truth.
I've done it before with several other people.
Your a liar, show me some respect and answer my questions
I did not lie. And you did not prove I lied. You are like the liars who slandered Jesus to put him to death.
I always wonder how it was for Jesus to speak truth to religious people and for them to always treat him like you treat me. He said truth, you called him a liar.
He responded to you: John 8:44.
And then you didn't believe me because of what he said: John 8:45.
The head is poisoned?
You are close to condemning yourself to the blasphemy of holy spirit that has no forgiveness.
Mark 3:28-30: "Truly I tell you, all sins and blasphemes will be forgiven for the sons of men. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin. He said this because they [the Pharisees] were saying, 'He has an evil spirit'."
'He has an evil spirit'.
Ex-Jehovah's witness reveals secrets of religious group
A former Jehovah's Witness has offered a rare insight into the religious group, describing it as a cult that "tries to control emotions, thought, information and behavior of a person".
When asked how women were regarded in JW society, the former elder said they were thought of as "a complement for a man", adding: "She should be submissive to her husband, who is the head of their family and it is he who makes all the important decisions.
"Women cannot teach in the congregation, they cannot deliver public talks or say public prayers. When they conduct a private Bible study or say a prayer with another person, while a man is around, she has to wear a scarf on her head as a sign of being submissive."
He also criticised the group for having a "big problem with child abuse," saying "they believe child abuse is only a sin, not really a crime, the elders in almost all cases don't report to the authorities, instead they try to handle it inside the congregation".
The group allegedly requires "two witnesses to the event" and regularly decide to "leave the matter in the hands of Jehovah
originally posted by: aniceday
a reply to: TheConstruKctionofLight
Nowhere in any of your posts is the OP mentioned, or even referred. Neither are any of the videos provided. Enough of your tactics, stay on topic, or I will report all of your posts as off topic. You can create any threads you want about what your concerns.