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Friendly Atheist
July 16, 2015 by Hemant Mehta
A few months ago, the ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses on Reddit had an idea: They wanted to put up a billboard in Belton, Texas, where a couple of JW conventions were set to take place in late July/early August. They raised the money by early May and signed the contract in June.
The billboard finally went up yesterday and it’s a doozy:
Is there a child molester at your Kingdom Hall?
Would the Elders tell you if there were?
Find the answers
JWawake.com
That URL leads you to this site, describing sexual abuse cases in which the Watchtower Society had to pay out millions of dollars to victims.
These are not isolated instances. They are not just the work of one or two rogue individuals. They are not persecution by Satan or the product of unjustified attacks by opposers. They are the result of specific, documented instructions issued to congregation elders by Watchtower on how child abuse should be handled.
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