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I am not a Jehovah witness but this is quite disgusting.I hope they take the Australian government to court over this.They are singling out religion and that stinks of discrimination.Also make me think of how Adolf Hitler when he started his Nazi party and closed down the Jewish shops and synagogues.Also you mentioned the child abuse case which they have against them but still not been even proven by law.Finally I would like to add why don't you tell me who many children have been sexually abused and MURDERED by the Catholic church.Many in Canada.
Two years later & still the problem persists in the Wicked Tower. WT has its own in-house lawyers. Truth gets lost in the Benjamin’s 😢 ⚖️🥲
Update: The JWs joined the Redress Scheme after first suing, claiming that there had no "institutional abuse", only "domestic abuse" and thus has nothing to "redress". They caved, and joined, with a potential redress of $132M.
Worth noting that the JWs had, by far, the highest rate of abuse out at any overarching organisation (though there were individual elements in others, like the Catholic Brothers who were MUCH worse … Where ~30% of all the priests were offenders, from memory).
LATROBE city council supports these PEDOPHILES…MOE NEEDS TO KICKS THESE EVIL PEDOPHILES OFF THE STREET…
As an abused child who grew up as a Jehovah’s witnesses I can 100% agree they are a CULT
indoctrination is child abuse. christian beliefs scared the hell out of me as a child, thinking i was never good enough and i still suffer from that as a 52 year old atheist. i was raised mormon, and im glad i left that cult.
I was an elder and my brothers went to Bethel. We all left that cult, including my two sisters. My mother wants us to come back to make her look good because the whole cult is about keeping up appearances
Revoking tax exmptions is the worst possible thing that could happen for religious organizations. It's all about the money.
As an Aussie, I’m pleased to hear ScoMo say sorry – it’s just a shame he talks differently when acknowledging sexual harassment of women within his (now ex) government. He also refused to say sorry to our indigenous children stolen from their families.
A typical Pentecostal hypocrite.
As an Aussie recently doing youtube studies into a child welfare set of crime cases in Tennessee all I can wish is the sensible people start dropping their religious filter and look at life fairly for all.. changes can happen when you want them to.. current policy in Tennessee is tender up for grabs for a decent system to revolutionise the backwards kkklub they keep close to their hearts
Scott Morrison the p.m. in the parliament house speech was made by a connection to qanon to say a word that was exactly the same action as trump in his public address on Jan 6…they are puppets … any leader in Australia would be under expected demand for the speach to be delivered. Morrison couldn't care less about people in pain… that pain is gods will apparently…
both conservative nutjobs trump and Morrison are not leaders any more. Both are hell bent on security in Israel – to make their block chain from church voters. They are not going to the golden afterlife they sell their business as.. they don't care.
We , the public are demanding change.. stop attending crap churches. Easy.
WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS NOT TRUE. JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ARE VERY MUCH STILL ALIVE IN AUSTRALIA, SO STOP LYING
It looks like Jehovah's Witnesses actually did join the redress scheme.
The Jehovah's Witnesses should definitely pay for breaking the law as they do. They know that they're breaking the law but do they care? Absolutely not! All they care about is their money. They don't care about the abuses that they dish out to children and women when they're being abused by wife beaters and such.
That religion needs to be totally banned world wide for it's violation of civil and human rights, and the governing body needs to go to prison for the many lives that were lost due to the refusal of taking blood transfusions, and for those who have committed suicide simply because they were shunned by their friends and family who are still in the organization. The governing body is definitely blood guilty! After all, they rule the organization and they make up all of the policies and such so they should be held totally responsible for all the wrong that was done to people.
The point is, all cults are set up to manipulate and abuse their members, esp children. How the fk does anyone with children do this, stay in this?
The witnesses will now say that the government is coming after them is in fulfillment of their prophecy of the government turning on them is part of the great tribulation .
Wasn't Morrison the one that sent out the dog whistle to QANON with the wording in his speech?
scummo morrison is full of fkn crap. have you seen lately the religious bill he tried to pass. he was right up there with the blind eye
What is the status now? (february 2022)
Curious all the money they get in that is supposed to help people does anybody actually know where that money goes there's our people that actually watch where it goes or is everybody just taken it on faith ?.
I had no idea the JWs were also notorious for child abuse accusations. I guess it happens in any religion.
FWIW, they should all have to pay tax on what they collect as income.
Good job Australia. Let's hope America does something similar.
Eliminating any cult is a good thing!
How did it go?
In other words, The Jehova’s Witnesses have a lack of witnesses?
It’s disgusting that religious organisations are exempt from taxes anyway.
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