When a charity does nothing charitable






Go down to your local soup kitchen on a Friday night or your local food bank.  Look at who are giving their time and money to help the homeless and feed the hungry.  Observe the charities that look after refugees and provide shelter for those affected by war and drought.

Look out for the tiny charities, the ones who give selflessly to those with alzheimer's, cancer, mental illness, Aids and hundreds more.

Many of the charities are run by religious organisations, many more are secular but all are run by people who care for others.

They give their time and money to aid those in need.

Jehovah's Witnesses are a charitable organisation, enjoying the generosity of tax authorities around the world who waive the organisations requirement to make income tax payments on the monies they receive.

They enjoy equal tax status with NGO's in the league of The Red Cross, Child Line, The Cancer Trust, Medicine Sans Frontier, Save The Children and many more.

So while these genuine charities are giving their time, money and sometimes even their lives helping their fellow man in his time of hardship what do Jehovahs Witnesses do to earn their charity status?

They give away leaflets promising a 'better future' at a time yet to be defined!

A starving child does not need a brightly coloured leaflet - it needs food.

Yes, say the Witnesses, but a meal won't solve his problem long term.  Gods Kingdom will give him food forever.  His problem however is short term - he needs food now and tomorrow and maybe next week and next month.

Charity does not involve shoving your beliefs down peoples throats, charity is simply about providing real help and assistance when and where it is needed.

But we do provide charitable assistance at times of disaster, Witnesses counter.  Which is true - they rebuild Kingdom Halls and offer help to Witnesses in the area and even on the rare occasion some Witnesses will even assist non-Witnesses.  But then listen to them gloat about it in their literature and their assemblies!

The thing with disaster zones is they represent fantastic media opportunities.  One elder I spoke to about this said that the organisation had reported film crews refusing to film Witnesses providing aid in disaster zones.  Read into this what you will - either the Devil is preventing Gods organisation from getting favourable coverage or the organisations reports are rubbish.  Why are they bothered if they are filmed or not anyway?  Surely they are doing it to help people, not to get recognition.  If they really are trying to provide aid for everyone in floods, earthquakes, famines etc why do they not also help the charities at home like the homeless, the hungry, children who are at risk or those with cancer? 

In reality they should not be classed as a charity, they do not meet the criteria and fortunately some of those in authority are now waking up to that fact.


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