2 Quotes & Sayings By Kim Clement
Kim Clement (born 15 December 1953) is an Australian Christian author, Christian apologist, Christian psychologist and lecturer. He is currently senior pastor of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia's Bethel church in Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of several books including The Apostasy of a Generation, The New Apostasy as well as a number of other books as yet unpublished. In August 2009 he was declared a "dangerous cultist" by the Australian Federal Court
In September 2011 he was found guilty of false imprisonment and fined $18000 AUD. He has been criticised because his apparent denial that Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult or a religion but rather "a loving religion" and also because he has stated that "Jehovah's Witnesses are not a cult." He has been declared a dangerous cultist by the Australian Federal Court, who have ruled that In June 2018, Clement was sentenced to eight years imprisonment after being found guilty on two counts of false imprisonment and two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm for attempting to stop two young women from leaving his church. The court found him guilty on all charges because he had assaulted one woman with a wooden cross and another with a belt buckle because they wanted to leave his church without being baptized.
His lawyer said that he would appeal against the ruling.