Why in the 1990s Did The Jehovah's Witnesses Join the United Nations.?

Question

Since the founding of the United Nations, The Jehhovahs Witnesses have consistently refered to it as Satans organisation yet they still joined this organisation just a short time ago, even though the criteria for joining is to support this organisation.

Answer 1

As an organization, the Jehovah's Witnesses religion rejects these allegations, and refuse to discuss such lying nonsense.

http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/
However, individual Witnesses (independent of any "official" branch office of Jehovah's Witnesses) have thoroughly refuted these shameless anti-Witness accusations, using actual scanned images of the UN's own documents.
http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/


Jehovah's Witnesses never joined the United Nations, in 1991 or any other year. They used 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).

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 bona fide 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://watchtower.org/e/20010201/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/lmn/index.htm?article=article_10.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20011015/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/index.htm?article=article_06.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/dg/index.htm?article=article_08.htm

Answer 2

With the exception of the Catholic Church, which is recognized as a nation, along with embassies. In fact, there was a bombing recently near the Catholic Embassy in Iraq.

Multinational religions are asked to register with the UN as a way to track the spread of different faiths in the world. There was a recent study released by the UN showing how significant different religions, including JW door to door work has spread in Cuba.

As for joining, no they have no standing to even be considered for that, if they even wanted to.

Answer 3

what??? I thought only nations could join the United Nations. So how could the Jehovah's Witnesses, or any other religion join the organization?

Answer 4

I agree with Mr. Ed. Great comeback to such an unfounded accusation! The Jehovah's Witnesses don't even so much as vote!

Answer 5

This is the silliest thing I've ever heard! No religion can 'join" the united nations! It is a group of NATIONS not religions.

Answer 6

Why do you spread such lies. Jehovah's Witnesses put there hope in Jehovah's Kingdom, the only hope for mankind!!!!
Daniel 2:44
SHAME on you!!!!
They would never do such a thing......

Answer 7

Quite a few Christians are looking for a powerful organization which can be seen as the modern Roman Empire, which was prophecied in the Bible.

Answer 8

They are making moves to fulfil a prophecy relating to `end days`, just as other cults want a new Jerusalem Temple to be built to fulfil their piece of crackpot Bible doom, just as Jesus acted out previous predictions relating to prophecy. Judaism/Christianity is based on prophecy none of which has EVER come true, and the deluded fools are still at it today!

Answer 9

give lovejones the 10 points.

What a stupid question.

unless "jehovah's witnesses" has suddenly become a country....

Answer 10

Maybe they decided that they'd made a mistake. Or the UN has a dodgy use for them, and the Jehova Witness leaders might be happy with that dodgy use.