What do you think about Jehovah's Witnesses?

Answer 1

These facts about Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps relevant to this question. The more one compares this Christian religion with others, the more remarkable it is shown to be.

1. Jehovah's Witnesses have no paid clergy. Yet they remain tightly organized with more than 6.5 million active Jehovah's Witness preachers (about 16 million associate themselves with the religion). Even fulltime preachers and workers at their branch offices are unpaid volunteers.

2. There is no elite class among Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the few 'anointed' among them enjoy no special privileges in their congregations on earth. An anointed person (one of those relative few with a heavenly hope) is not elevated above his fellow congregants in any way, and he may not even qualify for appointment as a simple 'deacon' or elder. There are no titles; EVERYONE is addressed as 'brother' or 'sister'.

3. No person benefits economically from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the 8 to 20 men who serve on their Governing Body receive simply room, board, medical care, and reimbursement for certain personal expenses according to the exact same provision as every other branch volunteer.

4. About a hundred men have served on Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body committee during the past 125 years or so. The vast majority of them have spent the vast majority of their adult lives volunteering for their organization's purposes, and the vast majority have died faithfully and near-pennilessly while still under their legal 'vow of poverty'.

5. Amazingly, Jehovah's Witnesses did not splinter as a sect from some other religion. Instead, a truly tiny but sincere group of bible students studied only the Scriptures to determine the will of God. Thus their religion remains absolutely independent of and not carrying the sins of Christendom's history, yet carries the authority of Christ's teachings.

6. Despite the distortions of anti-Witnesses, throughout their modern history Jehovah's Witnesses have refused to claim divine inspiration or infallibility for their teachings. They have pointed to the bible (and not any particular translation) as the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's thoughts. For over 125 years, their teachings have been presented as merely the results of sincere bible research by imperfect but godly humans.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/library/jt/article_07.htm
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2004/6/1/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm

Answer 2

I have respect for anyone who has guts enough to stand up and say what they think and support what they believe in.

I think they are American Citizens, exercising their freedom of speech and religious freedom rights and supporting same.

Their intentions are good, and they strive to help others find spiritual enlightenment.

They do not use foul language, do not drink, do not smoke and have never physically harmed anyone.

If everyone believed as they do, we would have a much better world in which to live, no wars, no murder, no cheating on marriage partner, no drunks, no drug addicts and on and on.

All in all, I think they are a class act

When we learn to look for the good in other people, we will find much more than we bargained for. It's called seeing things as they are, not as we wished they were, or in other words, hard core absolute reality.

Be careful of allowing hate to creep into you as it is much like acid, and will eat you alive.

The hatred will cloud your ability to see things as they actually are and prevent you from being a realist,

Darryl S.

Answer 3

Consider the words of Jane Fonda when she appeared on the Tonight Show with Charlton Heston. She was talking about how many movie stars hire JWs as maids, drivers, etc., because they can't be bought. Heston asked her why, if she liked them so much, does she become one. She said that she could not live a life so dedicated to God and Christ as they did, and neither could he (Heston).

Answer 4

They are a cult. They are very weird and follow beliefs written by some kook from Brooklyn. Yea Brooklyn the Mecca for all that is pure in religion. They won't even greet you because they believe it is an approval of how you live your life. They believe in shunning people for not doing as they want. They brainwash, control, ruin families, and believe that they will enjoy heaven on earth when they are chosen. Freaks. I hate them. That is where I could care less about religious freedom. Such stupid sheep led to ignorance and lies. The Mormons are liars too. The worse of the cults come from good old U.S.A. Americans should be leaders not followers. Freedom of religion seems to be so free that religions charge a high price for it. Freedom itself. Hey you JW trash don't ever knock on my door. I'll put a boot in your behind. I hate you people with a passion. My sister in law has turned my own brother against my family and he doesn't even practice the religion. She has got him to give her money to fund this cult trash and it makes me sick. They still demand that she knocks on doors to attempt recruiting more ignorant people.

Answer 5

Normally I dismiss fundamentalist beliefs. However, I once had a co-worker who was a J.W., and she was unfailingly sweet.

I suppose my feeling is that any belief system, be it political or religious or philosophical, is represented by its adherents. And these folks seem nice to me. I know that their proselytizing has not made them popular, but I have no problem with them at all.

Answer 6

i have nothing against Jehovah witness ......... until the fact that Michael Jackson is a Jehovah witness ............ makes me wanna phewt

Answer 7

They appear to be nice and dedicated people, spreading their version of the Bible.
I don't like the fact they include children on their house calling.
I think they use it as a ploy, it is harder for householders to turn away children.

Answer 8

Yes it is annoying having them show up at my house on saturday mornings....but i was always taught to respect them, they save alot of jewish lives in the holocaust.

Answer 9

every one is entitled to their own beliefs as long as they respect mine and not push their opinions on me........i have no problem with jehovah witnesses....unless they knock at my door too early on a sunday morning.....

Answer 10

I don't much, but I think it's wrong to try to recruit/crusade your religion to others unless they ask. Exactly the same as trying to legislate religious values.