Will you feel guilty or hypocritical when you are spending your holiday pay. Seeing as you dont celebrate Christmas as it is in your eyes, a pagan holiday.
2007-12-19 22:57:33 · 13 answers · asked by monno 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
MJF, thank you for that rant !
Now can you answer the question please.
2007-12-19 23:15:59 · update #1
These people (JWs) have just stood by and allowed a 22 year old mother of twins die. She refused a blood transfusion (suicide). Her husband (a JW) would not give his permission for her to have a transfusion (assisted suicide) and nor would any of her family, also JWs.
I don't think that Jehovah's Witnesses are capable of feeling guilty, especially regarding spending holiday pay, even if the pay is for the Christmas holidays.
By the way, both suicide and assisted suicide are against the law in Britain. They say that they must uphold the laws of the countries in which they live. Obviously this is not the case.
2007-12-19 23:34:02 · answer #1 · answered by claret 4 · 2⤊ 10⤋
Many JW's work on the holidays in order to allow their colleagues to have the time off to celebrate the holiday. When I was working as a nurse I often worked Christmas Day and New Years day so that my colleagues could have the time off in order to celebrate. So why should they feel hypocritical when they have the time off? Would you work on a holiday so a colleague could have it off?
2007-12-20 03:38:54 · answer #2 · answered by Everlasting Life 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Since most work places close during the Christmas break, how would a JW work?
Christmas IS a pagan holiday, and JW's have every right to not celebrate it if that's what they choose. They have no more reason to feel guilty than a Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or atheist for not working when their place of work is closed.
How many Christians out there work on Sundays? Do they feel guilty? If their boss told them that their workplace would now be open on Sundays, and they had to work, would they quit? What about housework? That's still work. Have you ever washed your dishes, or done your washing on a Sunday. I bet you have - heathen!!
2007-12-19 23:05:35 · answer #3 · answered by MJF 6 · 7⤊ 2⤋
Where I work it's called an end of year bonus and the time we get off is compulsory and comes out of our holiday allowance. So no I don't feel guilty. I just view it as a week off with the family. As long as I'm not celebrating the actual celebration of Chrismas, like putting up a tree ect, then no i feel no guilt.
2007-12-20 00:05:29 · answer #4 · answered by LoveBeingAMum 5 · 8⤊ 1⤋
No.
A typical Jehovah's Witness would understand that any decision about so-called "holiday pay" would be his own to make. Of course, the decision must be informed according to his or her conscientious and actual understanding of the "pay" or "gift" (or perhaps "bonus"). It is well-known that Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate pagan holidays, but they also do not superstitiously reject something merely because it has been tagged by someone else with a holiday nickname. For example, fruitcake does not become unacceptable simply because it is sometimes called Christmas cake.
Of course, Jehovah's Witnesses work to please God and Christ, and understand that no seeming "loophole" could ever deceive the divine judges who can read the heart.
...(1 Samuel 16:7) Mere man sees what appears to the eyes; but as for Jehovah, he sees what the heart is.
...(Jeremiah 17:10) I, Jehovah, am searching the heart, examining the kidneys, even to give to each one according to his ways
...(Mark 2:8) Jesus, having discerned immediately by his spirit that they were reasoning that way in themselves, said to them: “Why are you reasoning these things in your hearts?
...(Genesis 18:25) Is the Judge of all the earth not going to do what is right?
A Jehovah's Witness may choose to accept a bonus or a gift if he sincerely believes that the giver intends it to be something other than an aspect of a pagan celebration. It would seem that a critic who pretends some special insight into the conscientious thoughts of another may benefit from professional counseling and the bible's practical advice.
...(Psalm 119:69,70,78) The presumptuous have smeared me with falsehood. As for me, with all my heart I shall observe [God's] orders. Their heart has become unfeeling... Let the presumptuous ones be ashamed
...(Proverbs 11:27) He that is looking for good will keep seeking goodwill; but as for the one searching for bad, it will come upon him.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20000622/
2007-12-19 23:46:00 · answer #5 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 10⤊ 3⤋
I think the reality is now that Christmas has become a secular holiday. It really has nothing to do with religion anymore (only for some people).
I think it's a bit silly to antagonise the JW's over this, seeing as there are so many Christians who are hypocritical when it comes to this festival. It really doesn't matter, let them get on with it.
2007-12-19 23:16:12 · answer #6 · answered by Wine Apple 5 · 7⤊ 2⤋
why would you see about me? I was Jewish before I became a Jehovah Witness. I never celebrate xmas. before I had children, I worked and we would get an end of the year bonus. of course I took it. as far as not working on that day, the company was closed. I lived in new york at the time and worked on wall street. Jesus was not born on xmas day. no place in the bible does it say he was on on dec 25th. we do know when he died. Nisan 14, the last supper or passover and he said to celebrate his death not his birth. we don't lie to our chidren and say that Jesus was born on the 25th when he was not born that day. the shepards where out in the field and it is the cold and rainy season. also there is no santa clause either. we party during the year and give gifts to our children. we don't have to wait for a pagan holiday either
2007-12-20 00:23:58 · answer #7 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 9⤊ 2⤋
Sometimes I think people are very strange in their answers or are they just unreasonable in their thinking. Why would a JW be hypocritical but not Hindu, Muslim or Jewish. Dont they earn the money to enjoy as they wish?
2007-12-20 01:32:06 · answer #8 · answered by Purple triangle 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I see joaopeixoto71 would let his children experiment with drugs as well, so that they can see how it feels to be "high" and then make the decision themselves to quit or not.
When something is wrong in God's eyes, it's wrong- whether done by a child or an adult.
2007-12-20 00:48:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
Christmas is actually pagan in most people's eyes, they just dont care enough not to celebrate. Look it up, google it. It's pagan.
2007-12-20 00:13:23 · answer #10 · answered by fineimmune 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋