Henry L,

I spent my whole school life in Catholic schools and there was, as I've mentioned previously, only one teacher who fondled little boys, I told my parents and dad contacted other fathers and the result was that the offender was removed and then left the Religious Order of which he was a member.
We heard later that he had married, had a family and was a solid citizen.

I had no compunction in sending my children to Catholic schools both in Australia and Ireland, and having discussed the matter of sexual abuse with all of them as adults, they never experienced any or heard of any; probably just a matter of luck.

My classmates and I saw the actions of the teacher, in our cases, as being wrong and going against all that we had been taught regarding both faith and morals, so, despite the pervading culture of the time of not snitching, we acted appropriately.

runner,
I am not & I don't think I will ever be religious but, going by what I see happening around me I'd rather have one JW friend than a thousand of any other religion.
For a start they don't have hierarchies who live surrounded by unimaginable wealth, all conned out of poorly paid workers.
Religions are a bit like unions, promising the world until they got you in their grip & then forget about you until next they need more money !

runner,
I am not & I don't think I will ever be religious but, going by what I see happening around me I'd rather have one JW friend than a thousand of any other religion.

My personal experience is that JW's are generally very nice people. Like most cults they don't treat those leaving very well. They also require members to tithe like many other protestant churches. I personally don't have a problem with this but to make out that the Watchtower organisation is not some rich organisation built on members money is totally misleading.

Individual,

"Religions are a bit like unions, promising the world until they got you in their grip & then forget about you until next they need more money"

Well, that lets the Catholic Church out as Catholicism doesn't promise this world, but the next!!

JB: Catholics are going to Hell'

runner: that not quite accurate. The JW's don't see hell as a place of eternal torment for humans. They wrongly teach annihilation along with a lot of other unbiblical nonsense.

Oh yes, you are right, But they do go on about Catholics.

I hit them with verses from the Bible. You know the ones about eating you children, girls first & if you don't then God won't like you. Then a little further on about having kids who misbehave. You have to take them to the edge of town & stone them to death. Deuteronomy. Then Moses who actually committed the first sins. Anger Broke the Tablets. Murder, told his brother to go & kill all the people that hadn't had the Commandment explained to them, but he knew about it. Then how did he get 80000 people across the Red Sea. At Ten abreast with no supply train. 16 kilometers of people at 2kph with no rest would take a couple of days. Then the Baggage train to cover their march only for a few days would take 800000 Donkeys. Or 400 kilometers of Donkeys or a little more than 8 days of continuous walking, no rest. Ahh... I love them. Nice people though. Old Bill send his new recruits down to see me to get an education. ;-)

Here's another attack on nationalism, from USA.
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/430545-nikki-haley-slams-media-for-smollett-coverage-he-played-them-all-for-fools

This one looks like a false flag.
These leftists scream about 'equality' but they're the worst kinds of people.
They think its ok to lie and make up stories in order to claim victimhood.

Makes me think of a small childchucking a tantrum screaming "I wanna be the victim."
- How utterly pathetic -

Is it a gay thing or a leftist thing?
- Maybe they ran out of Christian bakeries to harass?

And yes, our media took the bait and went with the pro-left fake news as well.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/tv-star-beaten-in-racist-homophobic-attack-in-chicago-20190130-p50ug3.html