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The Witnesses (2020)
When Satan gets his hands caught in the cookie jar
He immediately protests. It is clear that each of his followers scream and cry "LIAR" when documentaries like this one become available to the public. I am not a god following person, but I do know the story. I experienced the same story. I was a member from 7 months old until 18 and 11 months old. For two decades now I have been at this fight, trying to get the Governing Body to change their policy. Why? Because childhoods need to be fought for. I do not wish for another child to go through what I and many others went through. Abuse can never be stopped, however the way the Governing body handled it, is what I want to see changing.
Hold your hands up, admit your mistake, do the christian thing and apologise to all of us survivors and change your policy to, 'Elders should phone the police when an allegation of child abuse is heard' I can't make it anymore straightforward than that.
This documentary, like the several before this one, is 100% factual. The insular way this organisation operates is the first time however that it has really been reported. WT has members convinced, that this out here is Satan's world. That includes the police, the media, everyone even you reading this who have not ever been a JW are part of Satan's world according to them. Even if you are a practising christian of another organisation or religion. They believe that only they are right, that only their clique is the one true clean organisation driven by god. It does not look very clean from my experience and from where I am sitting. It's rotten on the inside and it goes right to the top. I give one name. Pat Garza and her alleged abuser Ted Jaracz. He died before she could get justice. How deep the cover up goes does not become apparent until you research that.
Governments need to be looking into this organisation now and stopping them from carrying on in such a manner. I hear the JW's screaming they did not cover it up. To be silent is to consent and seeing as a child cannot consent, the adults involved are complicit in the act because they knew about it and did not phone the police. It smacks of a cover up to me. Time to change for the greater good.
#SaySorry Change your policy.
Spotlight (2015)
#ME Too
When I watched this movie it was like watching myself. The survivor of such horrendous abuse, to then being silenced like it was nothing. I watched and nodded along to the actors portraying the survivors.
But for me it was not the Catholic church that covered up my abuse. It was another religious group. What got me in this story was, that it was not just me it happened to. This is OUR story. It has been going on for decades. Probably even before media was a thing in a world where children were meant to be seen and not heard.
I believe that children should be seen and equally heard. The monster for me was not meant to be my leader or my father (biological father sad but true) The monster was meant to be the imaginary being under my bed.
The movie itself was fantastic, and maybe it's because I am a survivor I don't know, but felt connected to the story. It is rare for movies to do that to me. The actors playing these roles were absolutely amazing. I like Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams anyway. I like Michael Keaton and remember him in the movies that I was not allowed to watch as a child through the 80's-90's, because of magic and the cult rules I was forced into, yet caught up with them in my adulthood. Michael is a phenomenal actor. He takes the serious role in this well and plays it well, in direct contrast to Beetlejuice.
If anyone is thinking of watching Spotlight and has not done so yet, I highly recommend it. As a survivor just be prepared for possible triggers along the way, but know that you can also say #ME Too and that we are not alone.