Jehovah's Witness Analysis

The Heaven’s Gate is a cult which believes that aliens would escort members of the group to the “Kingdom of Heaven”. Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life, teachings and miracles of Jesus. The Heaven’s Gate and Christianity will be compared through their history, contributions and ideas to world thought, the 9 aspects and how they attempt to change the current thinking/understanding of God and religion in the world today.

Family, heritage, ethnicity, beliefs, values, knowledge, experiences, attitudes, religion, education, roles, language, and cuisine are all items encompassing culture. Culture is what influences your outlook on life itself as well as behaviors and rituals. Culture is the way different groups of people do things. While some cultures have overlapping cultural behaviors or aspects, most cultures vary significantly. Culture, for the most part, is something you are born into, your innate programming, however, it some aspects can be changed or evolved. "Only part of culture is conscious" (Spector, 2013).

All you have to do is sign this document and all your suffering and pain will end, now will you sign, or not? This is a decision that many of Jehovah’s Witnesses during the Nazi Regime faced. What did this document contain? It stated that they would abandon their beliefs and faith in Jehovah God and pledge loyalty to the man behind their persecution of not only them, but also persecutor of the gypsies, Jews, and other groups of people he hated, he was Adolf Hitler. Jehovah’s Witnesses had a number of their human rights violated during the Holocaust. Foremost though, what are human rights? According to www.humanrights.com, human rights are, “The rights you have simply because you are human.” There are thirty human rights that are found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that people should apply, but sadly don’t. The book Stolen Into Slavery by Judith Dennis and Fradin explains another group of people that were violated of their human rights, 19th century slaves. These slaves were required to labor and suffer pain in the South, but some of these slaves were actually free black men from the northern states (where slavery was illegal) who had been lured into the southern states (where slavery was legal and encouraged) like Solomon Northup was a victim to this scam. Jehovah’s Witnesses and slaves were persecuted in a homogeneous manner, in a sense that both groups were tortured, imprisoned and taken away to another country or location, and they were also stripped of

The Jehovah Witnesses beliefs contrast very heavily from that of Protestant, Catholic, along with other secs of Christianity. In this paper the start of the Religion, the differences, and founding fathers of the religion will be touched on and gone over.

1A. Although this case can easily be argued either way, I believe that the court should rule against the Grace Church of Devoted Followers. This case echoes Wisconsin v Yoder (406 U.S. 205). In Yoder, a group of Amish people refused to comply with compulsory attendance once their children reached high school age. The reason for that is because the Amish believe that high school will provide a more “worldly” culture for their kids; this directly goes against their core religious beliefs because Amish society emphasizes a “life of goodness” rather than intellect. The Amish do not object to education in the eighth grade on down, because they recognize the necessity for basic education.

Josh and I put the flags out for Trinity Baptist today and we couldn't find one of the holes for the flags. We may have just missed it but there was an indention in the ground where it could have been where it seems to be caked in mud. We will pick them up at the end of the meeting tomorrow.

The “Jim Jones & The People’s Temple” article explained that Jim Jones was a notorious cult leader of the Peoples Temple. He was self-appointed pastor from a church in the Midwest. The People’s Temple was founded in 1955 by Jim Jones, he created the church to create equality in races and help other people in need. Jones wanted to create a communist community where everyone was in accord and everyone worked together. When Jones moved his people to Guyana, South America, he managed to get exactly what he wanted. The people called this new community Jonestown, many people loved this town, while others began to question the environment they lived in. Jonestown was completely surrounded by jungles and armed guards that guarded the town. To leave Jonestown members are required to have

Growing up in a Jehovah 's Witness home has its ups and its downs. Whether your parents are Jehovah 's Witnesses or they started having a bible study, there are plenty of up sides and down sides. Religion is a strange thing to deal with; it is also a choice for each and every individual on this planet. As a Jehovah 's Witness, you must put gods will first, before anything. In the publications “Questions Young People Ask: Answers That Work” Volumes from The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, are actual young people who are Witnesses; they express the ups and the downs. These publications refer to scriptures in the New World Transcription of the Holy Scriptures Bible, (or in any bible you may have at home) as well as other information in encyclopedias and dictionaries. Overall, The Young People Ask Volumes go over topics such as dealing with family, identity, the classroom, sex, morals and love, behavior, feelings, physical change, money, time, and worship to their God; Jehovah. (Young People Ask Vol. 1 and 2)

My case is about the watchtower bible and tract the society of New York, the united states court of appeals for the sixth circuit. This case was from a long time ago and it was started by Charles Taze July 1, 1879. The Village of Stratton promulgated an ordinance that prohibits canvassers from entering the private residential property to promote any cause without first obtaining a permit from the mayor's office. The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses that publish and distribute religious materials, brought an action for injunctive relief, alleging that the ordinance violates their First Amendment rights to the free exercise of religion, free speech, and freedom of the press. The District Court upheld most provisions of the ordinance as valid, content-neutral regulations.

Who are Jehovah’s Witnesses? Many know them by the door-to-door work that they partake in. Many

Jehovah’s Witnesses are a people known widely throughout the world. They are well-dressed people who come knocking at your door on different occasions offering religious literature for sale or trying to introduce their beliefs through carefully prepared conversation. People young, old, rich, poor, well educated and non-educated have embraced them. Their enthusiasm as proclaimers of God’s Kingdom has impressed even their harshest critics. Their love toward one another makes some non-witnesses hope and pray that more people would act in that manner. Yet, some may still wonder, who really are the Jehovah’s Witnesses? What is their history, their practices and their beliefs? Why are they the most attacked new religious

“True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness” (Albert Einstein). Einstein illustrates that religion needs not the worshiping of a Deity; what is required and desired comes from within. Many tales use sophisms to cover logic with tales of magic and sorcery. This is demonstrated in the epic Beowulf, by anonymous, as it was written to be a medium of converting pagans to christianity. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, shows the same theme when the lead characters are outcast from mainstream society for being too different. Thus proving, existential religion plays a critical part when determining the morals of society.

Wikipedia lists all the different things that are considered ‘Watchers’, ‘Watchtowers’, or ‘Guardians’. Wikipedia goes on to break down the Watchtowers into different pantheons and even to their coordinating colors. In Richard Cavendish’s book, The Powers of Evil5, he listed the Watchers as the fallen angels that magicians call forth in ceremonial magic. He mentions that the Watchers were so named because they were stars, the ‘eyes of night’.

I have heard that Jehovah’s Witnesses were a cult, not Christians. I have several occasions that I held brief conversations with those who knocked on my front door. Mostly, our conversation never gone far because I had preconceptions of them being brainwasher who enforce their believe system. However, I have been wondering about Jehovah’s Witnesses believe system ever since I meet a family across our house. After seven years, I learned to admire their family structure, living principle and friendly approach toward everyone. We had a couple of opportunities to chat about the bible, which I found it very interesting we had similar with several life principles. I always wondered about the negative comments I hear about Jehovah’s Witness people

I really enjoyed hearing about the Baha’i faith. It blew me away to hear that the Baha’i faith is founded on unity, which includes accepting beliefs of all faiths. Even as a Christian it is based on to love others, no matter what religion or faith they might practice, however, we are commanded to not believe in any other God. I am unaware if the Baha’i faith accepts other faiths’ Gods, however, Sammie implied that they would accept them none the less. It is inspiring that the Baha’i faith lives true to their belief of unity.