Wow. That was very rude, insensitive and lacking empathy.
When my mother lost her baby the priest said "It's God's Will". Was also insensitive and lacking empathy to say this (I expect a priest to know better). But it's a good reality check, that priests are also just humans, making huge mistakes. And that they are the ones in this case that needed to learn.
I wonder what they really said.....?
We would never say anything like that....and if anyone did they would get into trouble.
1): You belittle
@JJ50 as if he was "hallucinating" about this. That is not respectful. Therefore I tend to believe him that JW were rude and disrespectful to him in the past. And Jehovah Witnesses, ca. 3 years ago, were quite insensitive to me also. And it happened more than once.
(Probably there are respectful Jehova Witnesses also, and like any human there are some that make many huge mistakes, some make less.)
2): Your claim is not right "
We would never say anything like that."
(unless "We" means you and your cat; but it feels to me you mean Jehovah Witnesses here)
*: Maybe you meant "We should never say anything like that", then it feels more appropriate in this context
a:
@JJ50 just told us, that this was said to him. And I do not think he would lie about such a thing, as some JW were quite insensitive to me also
b: You cannot possibly know ALL Jehovah Witnesses nor what they might or might not have said all over the world in all these decades
1986? You've been harboring all that angst for over 30 years? Time to get over it and move on....don't you think?
I think it is not appropriate for a Jehovah Witness to say such a thing in such a way in such a context, don't you think?
Of course I do hope that
@JJ50 gets over it, but you saying it in such a way will not help. Might be the reason he keeps repeating this fact.
He might have gotten over it, If you just had replied with "Sorry to hear that these Jehovah Witnesses said this ... that was so wrong"