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SHAPING OF OUR U. S. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND OTHERS IN OUR DAY-WHO DID IT?

"The activity of Jehovah's Witnesses has, in some lands, been a major factor in shaping the law. Every American law student well knows the contribution made by Jehovah's Witnesses to the defense of civil rights in the United States." "These cases have done much to preserve the liberties not only of Jehovah's Witnesses but also of the entire populace. In a speech at Drake University, Irving Dilliard, a well-known auther and editor, said: "like it or not, the Jehovah's Witnesses have done more to help preserve our freedoms than any other religious group.""-Jehovah's Witnesses-Proclaimers of God's Kingdom-Chapter 30 Page 699. They, did this from a kind golden rule heart free, while the paid clergy from just about every other faith tried every ungodly rule to stop them! Are the paid clergy in it for the money? Fact of history! Revelation 18:4 says, "GOT OUT" of money loving religion! The idea of that is there.

2007-03-12 12:45:20 · 4 answers · asked by Constitutionally Sound U 1 in Arts & Humanities History

See what Jesus said about hate toward his followers at John 15:17-25 and think about the facts above. And note Matthew 6:24 about the two things people make their master or rule their lives!

2007-03-12 12:49:38 · update #1

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2007-03-12 12:54:38 · update #2

achtung_heiss's said,
"Questions like this imply that Jehovah's Witnesses are interested in becoming popular, but that is simply not true. The ONLY opinions of ongoing interest to a true Witness are those of Jehovah and Christ Jesus. Those who work to ingratiate themselves with some human or human group are not doing God's will."

The "becoming popular" idea is not my reason to post such info up but to make clear the paid clergy are in religion for the power and money. Jehovah's peolpe are in religion because they in truth love our Maker and God Jehovah and people and therefore freely out of love try to help one and all to know Jehovah in truth. If they have to pay a clergy for knowledge of the true God they will not get it that way. Paid clergy have to tell people what they the people want to hear to get paid. So it will never be honest truth if they have to pay for it. If people have to pay to get out of hell into heaven they are being coned. BIG TIME! A greedy clergy loves it!

2007-03-14 11:45:18 · update #3

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Who is the author of this? Considering how cloying it is, I guess that it is the JW's that wrote it. They are hardly an emanicipator of religion in the world. They are not a force doing much more than leading people astray.
Why do JW's have 12 TIMES the level of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders than the general population? Are they making them or do they create them?

2007-03-18 02:24:25 · answer #1 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0 0

No one really said what the JW stand for and believe in. I have a friend who is a JW and she says there is no hell, that Jesus was crucified on a stake, and the 144,000 that is referred to in the book of Revelation is the Jehovah's Witnesses. Now, that is not what I read there. This number is referring to the Jewish people.

2007-03-20 11:51:17 · answer #2 · answered by rachel b 2 · 0 0

Questions like this imply that Jehovah's Witnesses are interested in becoming popular, but that is simply not true. The ONLY opinions of ongoing interest to a true Witness are those of Jehovah and Christ Jesus. Those who work to ingratiate themselves with some human or human group are not doing God's will.

(1 Thessalonians 2:4) We speak, as pleasing, not men, but God, who makes proof of our hearts.

(Matthew 6:20,21) Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven... For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.


Jehovah's Witnesses have the true religion. They are Christian (of course), but they are unique for their rejection of paganisms, use of God's personal name, and global preaching by every active adherent. No other religious organization can claim such purity of worship.

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.

2007-03-13 10:28:24 · answer #3 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1 0

Back when I use to hire graduating law students to help divorced and single fathers fight for their rights, I would hear about this all the time. I wonder where civil rights would be now if they had not started the battles.

2007-03-12 14:01:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

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