Jehovah's witnesses United Nations?

Question

I was looking on the interent and came across some article about jehovahs witnesses involment in the UN I have grown up in the truth and never even heard anything about this. Does anyone else know anything about this. It is just conffusing 2 me because the socoity condems the UN.

Answer 1

Watchtower's "involvement" was limitted to their use of the UN's libraries, which are used by tens of thousands of scholars, educators, students, and writers in New York City.

Years ago, a volunteer from the Watchtower Society filled out a one-side-of-one-page document requesting approval for him and his colleagues to use the libraries at the United Nations (which are only 5 miles from WT offices) .

By most accounts, at the time no signature was even required on that form. Each accepted applicant was designated by the UN and became listed as an 'NGO' (a "non-government organization"). The term is not specific to the UN and everywhere else on the planet the term "non-government organization" simply implies that the entity is:
1. Not a government entity; and
2. An organization (rather than a person)

Sooner or later, the annual renewal began requiring a signature, which a WT representative submitted each year thereafter. According to the form itself, the signature simply verified that this was a bonafide request.

At some truly arbitrary point, some United Nations bureaucrat decided that the term "non-government organization" (which had been and still is used millions of times each day by thousands of agencies of all types around the globe) was a special term! This bureaucrat decided that the term "non-government organization" meant that the organization endorses the UN!

Existing UN NGO's were not asked to enumerate this supposed endorsement. This incredibly presumptuous change was not even formally communicated to renewal applicants, and there was nothing on the renewal form which could possibly be interpreted as authorizing this remarkable conceit.

Weeks or months after the renewal request was submitted and accepted, the UN bureaucracy finally sneaked this ridiculous after-the-fact assumption into two sentences of fineprint at the end of a boilerplate booklet sent to non-government organizations.

For decades, Jehovah's Witnesses had discussed the United Nations as a human counterfeit of God's global Messianic Kingdom government. Suddenly, enemies of Jehovah's Witnesses pretended that Jehovah's Witnesses must actually be in some kind of secret alliance with the UN (apparently along with the thousands of other library patrons). Jehovah's Witnesses acted quickly to distance themselves from the idea that they endorsed ANYTHING associated with the United Nations. They "tore up" their library card, as it were, and formally renounced the idea that Jehovah's Witnesses had ever endorsed the UN.

The matter is unconfusing and straightforward to any fairminded person. The remarkable conspiracy theories of anti-Witness critics fail to explain any possible benefit to Jehovah's Witnesses from "the secret alliance" (which also involved the thousands of other library patrons).

Before, during, and since the supposed "alliance", Jehovah's Witnesses continued to publicly denounce the ungodly nature of the UN. Before, during, and since the supposed "alliance", Jehovah's Witnesses continued to be widely persecuted in dozens of countries. Before, during, and since the supposed "alliance", the UN continued to be consistently unsympathetic to religious persecution.

The conspiracy theorists and anti-Witnesses are illogical and wrong regarding their accusations that Jehovah's Witnesses' status as a "non-government organization" supposedly indicated some endorsement of the United Nations.

Learn more:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2001/2/1/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/lmn/article_10.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2001/10/15/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/rq/article_06.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/dg/article_08.htm

Answer 2

http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/

This above site will clear up the many false and misleading accusations that one finds on the Internet concerning the UN question. It can be download to your harddrive as a .pdf document.

One self-proclaimed "critic" even claims he is personally speaking and judging for "God" against us over this subject!
Other unhappy lurkers with a "hate" agenda watch these sites and then post their pre-programmed "flame" blasting the JW's with lies and half-truths.

If you are an associate or a JW as you have posted, it would be better to ask your local body or send Brooklyn a letter since here you have no idea with whom you are corresponding. Please consider this in addition to the above.

If you are not a JW, then you may ask one of them directly, or write a letter to the address in one of their publications with your question.

There are many scholarly "apologist" sites that support the slave. However this can be time-consuming and unnecessary since we already have SO MUCH information to digest.

If you have been raised in the truth, like I have been, we don't need some hate-filled anonymous person to tell us about why they were disfellowshipped or how bad the "organization" is! We personally know how and why our friends or acquaintences have been disciplined. Of course, THEIR case will be different! We are counseled to avoid them like the plague as they will not rest until we are in their disgruntled, misery-loves-company. Their attack is for their own hate and to mislead new and weak ones.

There are Yahoo groups that the Society does NOT recommend but are populated by faithful brothers that may be a much better place to ask questions.

Please email me privately if you are want these urls.

Again, please try the recommended way of asking questions: parents, book study conductor, elders, circuit overseer, district overseer, or a letter to Brooklyn...even a call if you just can't wait.

Also, don't be duped into thilnking that some out there are just a little bit "smarter", "more informed", or "scholarly" than the slave.
Or that they have "inside" information that others can't get. They are not and they don't.

Our dedication and desire is to "preach the good news/day of vengence", not get sidetracked into their smokescreen.



take care & agape,
Bob

Answer 3

A JW was doing some research and applied for some library privilege with the UN. Apparently, applying for such a pass one make an agreement to be recognized as the UN's affiliate.

They person's entry above mine has all the details!

Answer 4

Hmmm.. another false entry about the Watchtower and the UN. The truth is, the Watchtower DID join the UN, according to their own standards. There is irrefutable proof. As one of the original participants to the uncovering of the truth on this matter, I hold the document sent to me personally from the UN and this document is published in the book Crisis of Conscience by Raymond Franz. It tells the truth. The achtung natzi that posted his drivel does this relentlessly at the behest of the Watchtower, hoping to bury the facts.

Answer 5

You should find out more...what does it involve? Is it a public relations exercise?

And of course you have to check your sources on the internet. If in serious doubt, contact your local elders or the head quarters directly.

Answer 6

This is one of the cases where the society had "new light" and worked with them for their own purposes and then backed out. The Society is a confusing place because of new light.

Answer 7

Rules never stop the power hungry.

Answer 8

makes no diffrence

Answer 9

good to know.