Why in 1991 did the Jehovah's Witnesses join the United Nations.?

Question

I asked this question yesterday and I was accused of spreading lies because they would never do such a thing and I was also called a moron, see answers. Tha Watch Tower Society have always said that the United Nations was Satans organisation, so why did they join the UN as a Non-Governmental Organization to the department of public information whoose first rquirement is support and respect for the principles of the United Nations.

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

So JWs reject the United Nations? I did not know that! My old Granny was aWitness. I always considered her to be greatly mislead, but no less then any other believer in any denomination of any religion. Every time their date for the 'End Of The Present Order' came and went, she calmy accepted the next date, and then the next. She must be lying in her grave right now thinking "It'll happen next year for sure". Having said that, I always admired the Witnesses for their steadfastness during Hitlers Nazi regime. They were they only Christians who did not compromise, and paid with their lives! But they are severely deluded, all the same. As deluded as those Muslim crazies who blow themselves up in the hope of getting to paradise and having their filthy way with seven virgins! But the Witnesses are basically good people, albeit severely mislead! I loved my old granny!

Answer 3

Look on Guardian Newspaper online, Oct 8th and Oct 15th 2001 also you can find out about in on the UN website.
Sorry to all you JWs but they DID join.

Answer 4

OK buddy - you are clearly a word begining with A - funny how you get so desperate to pull the name of witnesses down - sad really... nevermind..
So where are the facts?
Where is your logic - countries join the UN not religions!

who told you to say that anyway - was it a rumour - have you act on what you've heard and not proved it to yourself - thats always important.

Answer 5

Because they're ******* hypocrites. Their whole religion is based on lies who are they to judge. None of them admit any knowledge of it, they would never look into it. "The society" is constantly creating a hysteria over apostates and teaching them to close their minds to anyone who says anything against them cause it must be apostate. They also don't remember being told that the world was already going to end, or having in the past been made to obstain from immunizations.. they are a very forgetful group of people.

Answer 6

If you want the real answer you have to get it first hand go to the website below type in neutral stand

Answer 7

Join the UN as what?

Answer 8

I'm more concerned with Islamic fundamentalism.

Answer 9

They are a cult which deny the divinity of Jesus Christ and also do not believe half of the bible.

Answer 10

i won't allow them to ring my bell on sunday. i let my pit bulls out in the yard at 5am so they cannot ring my bell to try to convert me