Jehova's Witneses , Religion-Cult-or Multi billion$ coorperation?

Question

I spent 7 years study-ing going to meetings ,theocratic school grad. I found that when doing the book studies that they would ask a question after each paragraph, then you refer back to the paragraph to find the answer ,read it , and say "that is correct now you know the TRUTH " But is that not just repeating what they wrote in the first place? If this is done over and over and over could this be considered "brain washing" The huge printing factory in Bethel N.Y. Is staffed by Jws who eat the food they farm there (they sell what they don't use) they live there and work for free,Does this sound like a cult, albeit ahuge one but a cult non the less?

Answer 1

It seems rather obvious that the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses is an established religion, and has been for 130 years. In fact, Jehovah's Witnesses has been adjudicated as a "known religion" by the European Court of Human Rights and most other governments which register religions. While the government of the United States does not similarly judge the merits of a religion per se, dozens of different corporations used by Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States (and in the various states) have been granted tax-exempt status as legitimate non-profit organizations.

Clearly, Jehovah's Witnesses are not a cult, and their branch offices certainly do not exist to sell surplus food. Jehovah's Witnesses do not actually do any printing in Brooklyn, and have not done so for years. Their "Theocratic Ministry School" is ongoing, and does not graduate any of its students.

Jehovah's Witnesses 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.


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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

Answer 2

All religions are cults. Catholicism is a cult, Buddhism is a cult, Islam is a cult. they're each and all of the comparable once you look at it. the only difficulty is that throughout right this moment's international the be conscious "cult" is commonly linked with a faith it extremely is appeared at as being distinctive in some way, shape, or variety. lots of folk view Jehovah's Witnesses to be a cult because of the fact they don't celebrate vacations, pass to conflict, take blood, etc. yet once you look at it, all of those ideals they carry costly are in accordance with the Bible which they suspect to be the know God. So extremely their faith isn't "cult like" as many human beings might think of a cult may be right this moment. I advise they are not telling every person to pass out and kill themselves like Jim Jones did. yet as I reported earlier, it extremely is a faith, and experience technically all religions are cults, they seem to be a cult additionally.

Answer 3

Ted Haggard runned a bussiness with 30 million of evangelicals (30 times more than JWs in USA and 4 times more worldwide) and requesting tithing and Jehovah´s witnesses don´t , then using math, evangelicals are huge times more rich and the money was used to pay for gay sex then what are you talking about?

Answer 4

Billion dollar Religious Cult

Answer 5

Bingo ...a very dangerous cult that not only costs people their lives due to the Bad blood transfusion dogma, but the Loss of souls because of denial of the Deity of Christ.


Rank and file Witnesses would be shocked at the amount of Cash their organization possesses..."Crisis of Conscience" was a wonderful book to read if you want to know exactly what goes on behind the doors or the WBTS..Glad that you were able to escape, most are not so blessed.

Answer 6

Neither.

Answer 7

Cult. Lots of brainwashing. 18 years in, 7 years out. Still recovering.

Answer 8

No it doesn't

http://www.watchtower.org

Answer 9

NEITHER !