They buy magazines for cash. There is no return. They buy 10-15 million books evertime a new one is published. They sell many books to Bible studies. Each witness has an average of one study. That is another 10-15 million books and magazines. They have large assemblies that collect a lot of donations. They take money from members to do a project and sometimes cancel the project right after the member has claimed the donation on their income tax. They say they will pay the money back after the deduction. Many say just use it on the next project. Free money by the millions.
They use slave labor to run their very large printing facility. They say their publications are cheap. Any publication would be cheap with slave labor. If a member buys magazines they do not place they eat them. Then the company tells them to just give the back issues to anyone who is interested. More free money. I do not think that people realise how much they take in. Where does it go?
2007-10-19 10:14:19 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jehovah's Witnesses do not charge anyone for their literature.
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'.
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
2007-10-19 16:47:45 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nothing you've stated about Jehovah's Witnesses is true. There are almost 7 million of them, not 10-15 million. They don't buy their publications, nor do they sell them. They don't take money from their members nor the people whom they place literature with in their ministry. There is no cost for our literature at all.
2007-10-19 17:35:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You almost beg the question. If you have any evidence of such alleged malfeasance why haven't you taken it to the police or the F.B.I.?
You have made some very serious allegations about a large number of people, but have you any evidence, or are are you just blowing hot air?
I know what I think, and I wonder how many others agree.
2007-10-19 17:46:01 · answer #3 · answered by doshiealan 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Wow, really. There are currently over 6 million Witnesses, I guess the other 8+ million you mention are hiding.
2007-10-21 09:29:58 · answer #4 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Are you concerned about the billions of dollars that go into churches, Jehovah's witnesses are doing better things with funds than baptise churches and other religious organizations.
2007-10-19 17:21:44 · answer #5 · answered by Kiki from K-town 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I am more concerned about Bush, the average ignorant gun totting American, our dependence on Arab oil and our out of control military. Maybe even Scientology, which is a dangerous cult, but this guys? - Let them be - religion is free.
2007-10-19 17:20:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is one of the few religious groups I've come across in the US who actually live their beliefs. I'm not sure about some of the claims you've made here.
2007-10-19 17:20:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Oh, you went in a different direction with this question. I thought you were going to try and figure out where all the "extra" Jehovah's witnesses think they are going to spend eternity. They believe that only 144,000 will go the heaven, and the 144,000th Jehovah's Witness joined the church way back a long time ago. So, assuming that they are the only denomination/faith/cult (whatever you want to call it) that is actually saved, that leaves several million stuck out.
So they really want us to join them for the chance at only sticking around for the 1000 year millienial reign on earth? And not eternity? It is a puzzlement.
2007-10-19 17:21:03 · answer #8 · answered by arklatexrat 6 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Most large churches get a lot of money from everything they do-- not just Jehovas' Witnesses. Churches are the biggest money making machines in the world.
2007-10-19 17:17:11 · answer #9 · answered by mathaowny 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It is a religious organization it's not your business where the money goes where does the Baptist or Pentecostal money go? Who the hell do you think you are?
2007-10-19 17:22:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋