True confession: I think ALL organized religions are dangerous and stupid.... (Don't get me started on the Jehovah W's, eh?) But I've been reading some of the core beliefs of Muslims here, and I'm amazed at their level of arrogance and the fantasy-land they exist in. I don't believe in God, so in my eyes these folks are psychiatrically pathological! Might add; I'm liberal about the practice of religion, detest our current war, am not an anti-immigration supporter, et al.... But some of these folks are freaking me out a bit. What are they doing here in a nation that values separation of church and state? What is in the baggage they carry into our nation?
2007-12-23 17:23:54 · 1 answers · asked by jbloor@att.net 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, paranoia is not necessarily indicative of mental illness. At times, it is evidence of ignorance or intolerance.
For example, it seems rather obvious that Jehovah's Witnesses are not dangerous or stupid.
It is true that Jehovah's Witnesses are not loved by everyone.
http://jw-media.org/newsroom/human_rights.htm
Some people hate Jehovah's Witnesses out of ignorance, or over some misunderstanding. A few may have had a bad personal experience with an individual who claimed to be a Jehovah's Witness, and prejudicially extended their animus to this entire Christian religion.
However, it seems that the majority of anti-Witness hatred is motivated by religious intolerance and bigotry. A few may even be motivated against their Christian worship by the unseen 'god of this system of things', Satan the Devil.
(2 Corinthians 4:4) the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers
Interestingly, such "hatred" should be expected by true Christians in this time of the end, and it actually helps identify Jehovah's Witnesses as Christ's true disciples:
(John 15:19) If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.
(Luke 6:22) Happy are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and reproach you and cast out your name as wicked for the sake of the Son of man.
(1 Peter 4:4) Because you do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery, they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of you.
(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.
It seems signficant that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones best known for their worldwide preaching work. Yet Jesus commanded that ALL who would call themselves "Christian" perform this public work:
(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20030301/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20020401/article_01.htm
2007-12-26 06:02:56 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋