Yeah, I've skipped some stuff to get to this statement. What are you talking about? Have you never heard of the 'age of reason'? The child can be just as culpable in your world? Toddling around looking all sexy and provocative right? Well done for enabling any paedophile who happens to read to read this. If I was a predatory paedophile right now I'd be thinking of signing up with the JWs. Any age restrictions? When does the child become culpable? Three years old? Five years old? Seven maybe? Does the Watchtower have guidelines based on the bible?
Are you serious? You totally misinterpreted what I said.
You said that child abuse was different to what consenting homosexual adults do in private. My point was that consent doesn't make it right. If the child consents to the abuse because they have been raised with it, still makes it just as wrong.
For heaven's sake, don't misquote me or attribute your own sick interpretation to what I said. You talk about offensive! I thought you were a fair minded person until this exchange, but now I see the real person, wanting to assume bad motives where there are none.
Deeje, I thought you were a nice person, a bit misguided and blinkered by religion perhaps, but basically decent. Now I'm not so sure, if you walk around with perverse ideas like that in your head. Maybe you are flailing around, desperately trying to defend your religion, saying stuff you know to be wrong on every level. I do hope so.
Damn sure I wouldn't hire a JW as a baby sitter having read that though.
I am not flailing around anywhere but in your sick interpretation of what I said. My ideas are not perverse except in the way you twisted what I said.
I already mentioned that all institutions that have access to children can harbour pedophiles. They don't exactly walk around with "pedophile" tattooed on their foreheads. They look and act like very normal people. As Christians, we are naturally trusting of one another and they obviously know this.
In times past, child abuse was treated vastly differently to what it is now.....especially in the legal system. It was not considered a serious crime until the psychological damage became manifest in victims decades later. Once that collective damage was assessed and recognised, the legal system changed the way they dealt with the perpetrators and the way prosecution was handled in the court system. Often victims had to face their abusers in court and were put through traumatic recounting of the abuse under cold, hard cross examination by lawyers intent on getting their clients off the hook. That often made the court case more traumatic for the victim than the original crime.
We acknowledge along with every other institution that things were not handled well back then, but today there is a completely different approach, as it should be.
If you believe everything you read on the net, then that is up to you.
Tell that to the victims of child abuse in your religious organisation who grew up as "damaged goods" thanks to the cover ups. Makes me wonder what else goes on behind closed doors in the Kingdom Halls, but Deeje, if I ever had the slightest inkling of curiosity to visit one of your churches, you have now utterly killed it. Not interested in an organisation that enables child abusers, and covers up abuse, unless it is to report any offenders hiding in it to the authorities.
Whatever you think was not created by me or by Jehovah's Witnesses....it was entirely created in your own twisted interpretation of what I said. Child abuse is never OK and never was. The way it is handled these days is as the criminal offence it has been proven to be.
You do understand that pedophile rings have people from all walks of life as members.....judges, lawyers, doctors, professional executives, media celebrities and ordinary everyday people. You would never know you were rubbing shoulders with them....unless they were caught.
Children have now been educated to identify suspect behavior but as long as pedophilia continues to be fed by internet child porn, no child is safe....even from their own parents. That is the sad state of today's world.....and yes, we expect an accounting sometime in the near future.