Do you think Mormon and jehovah's witnessess are cults.?

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses are not a cult, and consider the term to be an insult.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/19970601/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20020122a/article_01.htm

Answer 2

Technically, a "cult" is a "religious group and its body of adherents" but a lot of people misuse the word as a means of scare tactics.

Anyways, I'm LDS (Mormon) and the word "cult" as it is used today doesn't describe my church. I've been taught to love and respect everyone. My Church has instilled all the right values in me as a person. I've been blessed in so many ways by this Church, so I haven't got a clue what people mean by "cult". I'm not separated or isolated from society or anything. I'm not a violent, hateful person and I don't worship the devil.

To be honest, I don't know that much about Jehovah's Witnesses but I do sympathize with them in the sense that so many people don't take the time to find out what they believe, and they simply refer to them as a cult because everyone else does. The same way people do with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

I think before you label anyone as a "cult" you should go straight to the source and find out about it yourself. Not from some anti-Mormon or anti-JW website. It's really not respectful to pick or ridicule something when you have absolutely no idea what it really is. Just my two cents.

Answer 3

Well, I don't know much about Mormonism, I will let others weigh in on that, but I do feel/know that we Witnesses are not cultists. We strive to follow the Bible plain and simple. Outside of our religous beliefs we run the gambit of personalities.

PS I do agree with an earlier poster, though he/she was rude about it, that long a CandP section seems a bit much.

Please do not belief someone believes something just because another website says so. Case in point, the 101 beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses thing has been put up on Y!A from time to time, and is hilariously inaccurate.

Answer 4

Do I am LDS and I do not consider myself to be in a cult, also I have learned about Jeohavah Witness' and I do not consider them to be a cult either. I probably would say that the FDLS is a cult, again I do not know everything about them but they do break the law, and I have heard stories on the news of people escaping and never seeing their family again.

Answer 5

A cult is defined by the majority of the population being asked to define what a cult is. Christians can say Islam is a cult and vice versa. I think that all organized religion are cults. It curbs logical thought, and prohibits people from living cohesively. As long as there are thousands of religions with everyone arguing who is right without any evidence I cannot accept any faith as anything but a cult.

The most secular nations on earth all the ones with the highest quality of life. Europe, Australia, Canada all are much better places to live than any religious hotbed such as found in the middle east. The US is the wealthiest country with the most military power and is at serious risk of slipping into a similar state as the religiously ran countries that we cannot understand. Ones like Israel/Palestine, Bosnia, and the list goes on. The more religious the country, the more problems and backwards the country is.

Don't pick on Mormons and JW's; all Christianity and religions are equally ridicules.

Check out: Letter to a Christian Nation, The God Delusion, The End of Faith.

Answer 6

Jehovah Witness people were actually called a cult. But it doesn't force anybody against their beliefs to follow a generalized religion.

Cults are more like the Halebopp/Heaven's Gate cult, where everybody follows their "so called" leader and follow anything he wants. Especially drinking poison. That's evil!

Answer 7

Look up the meaning and root word of "cult". Not in just one dictionary but in Latin, Greek and Arabic. All organized, tradition-practicing "religious" organizations are cults. One could even call Americanism a cult.

Answer 8

JWs are a copy of the Jewish Cult that separated themselves some 1900 years ago

Talking to one of my regular passengers, whose a Rabbi, I would say most Christians have much the same problem with JWs that ancient Jews had with the first Christians who they viewed as having been started by an uneducated ex-carpenter of the Jewish Lower Class who was executed for cause by the governing authority. The only education he had was by Mary and Joseph, in the view of the Jews, he made up most of what he said.

He recruited other uneducated, lower class individuals, such as a failed fisherman (Peter) and a hated tax collector (Matthew).

Lacking any formal education, they were easy to manipulate into believing he was the Messiah, something that was impossible, as he did not bring about the destruction (Armageddon) of the enemies of the Truly Blessed People of God, the Israelites, as was prophesied.

After his lawful execution, these clearly brainwashed followers began going door to door telling their brethren that the traditional beliefs, rituals, and observances (holidays), dating back hundreds of years, were no longer valid.

They began creating their own scriptures, to support their false beliefs, instead of relying on the Holy Torah, which had sustained God’s People for hundreds of years.

Finally, there were highly educated individuals, especially in the religious arts, such as Saul of Tarsus, who could clearly prove that they were a false cult, bent on leading God’s People down a false path to destruction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_of_Tarsus

What happened to them, as a result of their false teachings, and their door to door work, was only to be expected of people who have lost their way.

Clearly, what you may or may not think of JWs is reliant on your point of view, just as it was in those first years. Having an advanced education in religion does not mean that you are right, only that you sound that way.

JWs may have come from a simple, and some times, erratic beginnings, but at least they are making a valid effort to do better. You cannot say that for other religions who:

Continue to get involved in politics;

Lie to the IRS about not doing so in order to get their non-profit status;

Avoids paying taxes on retail sales within the church;

Allows immorality to creep into the church;

Immortalizes their founders through the observance of a birthday, death, and/or anniversary of the founding of the church;

Places a pictures of the founders in all their churches, so that all can see and pay obeisance;

Gives tacit approval to the Theory of Evolution; and

Doesn’t teach their followers to preach and teach the Bible, as Christ instructed.

Answer 9

a cult worships man and live together and does what the man wants. we as Jehovah Witnesses worship Jehovah God and his son Jesus Christ. we live in our own homes and work. we pay bills and come and go as we please. a cult lives in one state, we as Jehovah Witnesses are in 236 lands. learn what we as Jehovah Witnesses are all about at a Kingdom Hall or our website www.watchtower.org

Answer 10

--NO we as Jehovah's witnesses do not let any one control our worship & lives but Jehovah God & Christ Jesus!

--FYI-- When a group of our Bible Students(JWS ONCE KNOWN AS) in the early 1900's started to venerate Charles Taz Russell after his death in 1916 they indeed made a cult following , with special activities at Russells grave site!
--THIS group of Russelites are still funtioning to this day, BUT are not Jehovah's witnesses in any way!
--WE FOLLOW no man or group of men including our governing body , any elders, etc.