When War is a Smokescreen
Have you noticed that in the past few years the events of the 2nd World War have been sanitized by referring to the perpetrators of the atrocities as 'Nazis' rather than Germans? As if a single political party were the monsters that carried out the genocide. They could not have done the evil they imposed on the Jews and others including Jehovah's Witnesses without the support of the general German population.
And why did these ordinary German men and women carry out these crimes? Many of them used the excuse that they were simply carrying out orders.
It's ironic that an organisation that suffered at the hands of Hitler and his murderous bands of cronies are now facing charges that they created an environment in which paedophiles could operate with almost total impunity. However it could never have happened if the rank and file elders had not 'just followed orders'.
Edmund Burke said; ' All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing'. However in the case of Jehovah's Witnesses the congregational elders are doing things that allows evil to triumph, they are carrying out the organisations demands to destroy documentary evidence of historical judicial committees, including those involving child abuse.
Why would they want to destroy this evidence?
Because they know it will incriminate them if it gets into the public domain and as so many child abuse cases within the organisation are reaching court they are doing everything in their power to protect both their reputation and their bank account.
Why would the congregation elders obey this demand when it flies in the face of everything moral and decent?
Simply because they have been brainwashed to believe that they are fighting a spiritual war. They do not believe that the organisation has done anything wrong. They are convinced that they are being attacked by Satan and therefore any order from the Governing Body must be obeyed and if they refuse they are aligning themselves with the Devil and against God.
Just as ordinary Germans murdered Jews by the million because they believed Hitlers rhetoric, Jehovah's Witnesses are hindering the authorities investigation into the abuse of their own children because they believe the propaganda of their leaders.
The truth is far more simple than some 'war' between them and The Devil. Their rules allowed evil individuals to flourish and now they are suffering the resultant fall-out. Nothing more and nothing less. The 'two Witness' rule which states that a person can only be accused of a sin if there are two or more witnesses is the first reason that children could be abused easily. This crime is, by it's very nature, secretive and normally perpetrated by one individual. Rarely would the victim have another witness.
Secondly the Governing Body take 1 Cor 6 literally;
(New International Reader's Version)
6 Suppose one of you wants to bring a charge against another believer. Should you take it to ungodly people to be judged? Why not take it to the Lord’s people? 2 Or don’t you know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? Since this is true, aren’t you able to judge small cases? 3 Don’t you know that we will judge angels? Then we should be able to judge the things of this life even more! ...
7 When you take another believer to court, you have lost the battle already. Why not be treated wrongly? Why not be cheated?
They believe they are in the best position to judge another Witness, even in matters as serious as child abuse. However they miss the point entirely (as they so often do). No real Jehovah's Witness would ever harm a child, it simply is not in their nature. The paedophiles in their midst are not real Witnesses, they are predators. By handing them over to the authorities to answer for their crimes the Governing Body would not be ignoring the Apostle Pauls advice because they would not be bringing a charge against a 'believer'.
Sadly the organisation are damaging their reputation and putting their kids at risk because once again they defy logic, preferring to maintain ridiculous rules simply because 'it's in scripture'.
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