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.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_07.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20040601/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
2007-12-12 20:45:56
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answered by achtung_heiss 7
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I don't have a problem with them as long as when I tell them I'm not interested they leave me alone.
2007-12-12 21:07:17
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answered by Purdey EP 7
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I think about the 14 year old boy who died in Washington because he wouldn't have a blood transfusion
2007-12-12 21:07:25
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answered by Anonymous
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What's the difference between them and any other bible-people? Any other people with faith ingrained in them, for that matter?
2007-12-12 21:14:38
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answered by Phoenix_Slasher 4
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I B thinkin nuffin
2007-12-12 21:08:48
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answered by CreativeMusicArtist 4
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They get on my nerves. If I wanted to learn about their religion, I would go to one of their churches. They do not need to come to my door and preach their message
2007-12-12 21:31:38
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answered by Anonymous
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I thinkin theys should gets a lyfe.
2007-12-12 21:06:25
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answered by Anonymous
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I think its a false religion that disguises itself as Christianity. I feel sorry for those who are deceived by it.
2007-12-12 21:08:19
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answered by Thrice Blessed 6
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they are people who have just as much right to choose their faith as you do to choose yours.
there, that was easy.
Happy Day!
2007-12-12 21:06:58
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answered by knit gangsta 6
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It is a scary cult! They think they are on the right track, when they surely are not!
2007-12-12 21:11:21
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answered by Anonymous
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