2007-01-21 01:26:22 · 4 answers · asked by martiismyname 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I haven't but I have a friend who has, he told a judge that he answers to a higher power than the judge and the judge asked who that was and he told him the Lord Jesus of course and the judge got mad, held him in contempt of court and threw him in jail.
2007-01-21 01:32:37 · answer #1 · answered by Angelz 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1935 - April 1, Children of Jehovah's Witnesses banned from attending school. Some children taken from parents to be raised in Nazi homes and reform schools.
1936 - Mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses. Several thousand are sent to concentration camps and some remain there until 1945.
1938 - October 2, Watch Tower Society President J. F. Rutherford, speaking over a network of 60 radio stations, denounces Nazi persecution of the Jews
1939 - an estimated 6,000 Witnesses (including those from incorporated Austria and Czechoslovakia) were detained in prisons or camps. Some Witnesses were tortured by police in attempts to make them sign a declaration / renouncing their faith, but few capitulated.
According to Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz, SS Chief Heinrich Himmler often used the "fanatical faith" of Jehovah's Witnesses as an example to his own SS troops. In his view, SS men had to have the same "unshakable faith" in the National Socialist ideal and in Adolf Hitler that the Witnesses had in Jehovah.
1945 - May 7, Germany surrenders and the war in Europe ends. An estimated 2,500 to 5,000 Witnesses died in the camps or prisons. More than 200 men were tried by the German War Court and executed for refusing military service.
2007-01-21 01:39:51 · answer #2 · answered by keiichi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Therevwere a number of the early disciples in the Roman times that were jailed, beaten, tortured and killed in arenas as spectacles. Paul was jailed. As he sang, the jail was destroyed and the jailer was converted. Paul went to his home and baptized he and his family as a result of this event. GOD works in mysterious ways, doesn't HE? I have not been jailed but I have had people that told me I( was wrong in my belief and questioned my belief in HIM. Have a great day!
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2007-01-21 01:34:33 · answer #3 · answered by Eds 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As I recall, the last time Jesus got arrested things didn't go to well for him. I don't think I'd want to be taking the rap for him anytime soon.
2007-01-21 01:40:06 · answer #4 · answered by overrun_girl 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋