="Deeje, post: 5331929, member: 18814"]JW's are such terrible criminals!
look at them out there shooting people and stealing from them!...blowing themselves up and carrying out terrorist acts! I don't know how the world can ever put up with them!
Good grief! That is the greatest load of set up clap trap I have ever seen.
“That” sure was. Thank you for bringing "that" to everyone’s attention.
But we’re not talking about "that"... shooting people, stealing from them, blowing them up or committing terrorist acts. We’re talking about pedophiles and protecting our children, and we can’t afford to place stoppers on our ears when it comes to sexual predators and child abuse allegations.
The judgments with which you judge others will come back to you. We have nothing to hide or to be ashamed of.
Then why respond so defensively? No one here is asking you to hide or be ashamed. It’s not only what you believe but why you believe it that interests me, and I can’t talk with you if you start walking away or stopping your ears.
Besides, if adult Witnesses are unable to talk freely about sexual abuse
anonymously on a public bulletin board, and can’t hear about it without
literally stopping their ears when canvassing door to door, what chance does some kid have when she reports abuse in a Kingdom Hall? If it’s anything like I’ve seen on this thread, it wouldn’t be much and the opportunity for change in your Organization is reduced that much more.
I’m asking the Watchtower to do the exact opposite of run and hide. I’m asking them to stop pretending predators don't exist among the brethren (where are your protocols?) and don’t be ashamed to let the public know if one might soon be knocking on their door. At the very least, it seems to me the elders could give their local Police a heads up if they intend to send a convicted child molester knocking door to door. If they don't want to do this then they should be barred from field ministry.
We also forgive people who try hard to correct their past mistakes. Harassing someone who is trying to live a Christian life after a bad past is not condemned by God or us. Try reading about Manasseh. Then put yourself under the same cross-examination. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone".
Giving someone a second chance is fine Deeje, but giving a pedophile a second chance to molest unprotected children is not. They must deal with the consequences of their sin just we deal with the consequences of our own.
As I see it, there are two ways a church can deal with child molesters:
1. If your Organization
cures child molesters:
If you truly believe Kingdom Halls are curing child molesters of their molestation, then you need to show this. Publish pictures of repentant child molesters going door to door or perhaps leading a home bible study with kids in the background. Tell the child molesters of the world “This could be you!” if they would simply “Get out of Babylon the Great” and get baptized into the Organization. This should be accompanied by your well vetted, comprehensive, well documented, statistically laden peer reviewed study that shows the recidivism rate for child molesters who walk into a Kingdom Hall and repent is zero.
Believe me, if your Organization can actually do this the entire world will rejoice and I would rejoice also. I would shout it from my rooftop if it were safe for me to do. Absolutely no one would be alarmed at the prospect of convicted child molesters knocking on their door, trusted Awake! magazine in hand.
2. If your Organization
does not cure, occasionally cures or only temporarily cures child molesters:
Anything less than a total cure of pedophilia is unacceptable and requires protection of the church, its congregants, and the community at large. As such, this requires the adoption of, at the very least, minimally accepted and common sense standards for protection of children and those with special needs. These standards, some of which have been adopted by
child welfare advocates and agencies are freely available for the asking. In many instances these agencies will work with your church to develop standards free of charge.
You really need to find where your Organization fits on the chart.