i think that this religion is just a big scam to get money out of suckas. i mean why else would they be so obssesed with recruiting people. and they are creepy! it just doesn't make sense, the whole bangin on peoples door thing. i think they all need to get a life or just be put out of their misery.
2007-08-29 14:46:47 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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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 nearly 7 million active Jehovah's Witness preachers (about 17 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'.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_07.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20040601/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
2007-08-30 03:11:23 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes, the religion is a sham and if you would read the bible you will understand things you never thought you would? I am a Christian "Born Again" and I will tell you that the Jehovah Witnesses are lost and destined to hell. Just like the Mormon's, these two religions are "CULTS" and that is the truth? The last book of the Bible "Revelations" chapter 22 says that thou shalt not add to this book or take away from this book and this is exactly what they have done? The Mormon's believe that the husband calls out to his wife from hell to enter the Kingdom of God and why did Christ die? How in Gods green earth can a man be God and proclaim this crap? Jehovah's are no better and ask any Pastor besides these two religions what the differences are you will be shocked my brother.
2007-08-30 00:32:32 · answer #2 · answered by bennycandelaria 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yeah I guess that whole Noah and the flood thing was a scam to. Can You imagine that old "creepy" guy going around to peoples doors and on the streets "recruiting" people to get on that boat of his. Scaring people about some flood coming, man, What......A.......Creep!
Ohh wait, him and his family were the only ones who survived.
Sadly alot of people like you felt the same way about Noah and alot of the other prophets and disciples in the bible that went to peoples doors to get the message to them.
Also, Sadly you fall under the category (unless your heart changes) that Jesus spoke of at Matthew 24:36-39.
2007-08-29 22:18:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Their literature is placed for a small donation, and is just as often given without charge, if the householder is interested and doesn't want to or can't donate. There is a donation box at the rear of their Kingdom Halls (church), and no mention is made about putting money in it.
They believe that if they don't preach the way the first century Christians did (person-to-person, door-to-door), that they'll bear 'bloodguilt' for not having tried to share the news of Jehovah's kingdom and the impending war of Armegeddon.
2007-08-29 21:56:56 · answer #4 · answered by Zeera 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You brought this out in another question, and I suppose felt obligated to make it into your own, so I'll just repeat what I said back there,
Jehovah's witnesses don't even bother asking for donations, unlike other religions that make a note of it, and send around dishes and such, we prefere to keep it 100% up to the person, leaving our donation boxes in a discreet location within the kingdom halls, and in areas of the assemblys/conventions, where as afterword, we let the whole congregation know how much was donated that month, and the expenses made by the kingdom hall for its upkeep, and the total ammount the kingdom hall has, as well as how much was sent to the main branch office for distrupution of the publications. Most of the time, we also ask the members of the kingdom hall how they want to spend extra money, and what projects they feel are or are not important, in votes between meetings. the members freely give, and the expenses are used to spreading the work of preaching the good news.
The reason we are so zealous about our preaching work, is belive it or not, out of love for fellow man, and god, and because we were commisioned to by jesus (matthew 28:19,20). Nothing more.
2007-08-29 21:55:46 · answer #5 · answered by Inle' 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
One should always feel comfortable with the faith that they may chose to worship, I have not heard of jeovah's but I am a Jehovah's witness and that of his son " Jesus Christ " you could check into this of there are many more religious beliefs whatever you choose good luck!
2007-08-29 21:54:08 · answer #6 · answered by S.O.S. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scam is a deliberate act to cheat someone or a group of people. Thereby Jehovah Witnesses which are not trying to scam anyone do not fit into your definition of scam. By the Watchtower organizational charter, JW exists to bring others to God based on Watchtower doctrine. Mind you, I do not agree at all or in part with their doctrine. But nevertheless, they are not a scam.
2007-08-29 21:55:54 · answer #7 · answered by Tinman12 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The bible actually saids that the lambs that will live forever on earth on paradise are called his witnesses. It also says that is what they need to be doing, preaching and warning others because Jehovah is going to destroy the wicked. Once you read the bible with the Jehovah witnesses you will know what i am talking about.
2007-08-29 22:06:01 · answer #8 · answered by janja 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My Wife and I were baptized in Aug. 1996.
I can truthfully say from my heart to yours that our Religion is not a scam. We preach door to door because we are commanded to do so by Jesus. We preach because of our love for Jehovah and to make his name known through out the whole world. We also love our neighbor as ourselves. Jehovah's Witnesses are some of the most loving people you will ever meet. We truly love from the heart and are very sincere. No one in our Organization is paid for what they do.
2007-08-30 14:56:56 · answer #9 · answered by Jason W 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Not a scam they just have different beliefs, like Catholics believe if they confess their sins to a priest they are forgiven, JW believe the more people they recruit they will go to heaven....who's to say which if any is right?
2007-08-29 21:57:59 · answer #10 · answered by Glinda W 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋