Jehovah Witnesses on Christmas Eve
kookiethekat
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Do they believe in Christmas. I know it is a normal day for most people but I am running around trying to get the house clean ect...
Knock on the door, I only answered it because my daughter had just gone out and I thought she has forgotten something.
The first thing I said (after hello) was "I'm a Mormon so not really interested" then they started banging on about how Jesus wasn't born on Christmas day and thats it's a false holiday.
Spoilsports lol
Knock on the door, I only answered it because my daughter had just gone out and I thought she has forgotten something.
The first thing I said (after hello) was "I'm a Mormon so not really interested" then they started banging on about how Jesus wasn't born on Christmas day and thats it's a false holiday.
Spoilsports lol
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So they literally devote their whole life worshipping god.
Wow, imagne if it is the wrong religion lol.
Like Dawn of the Dead with briefcases.
If there are 1,000 different religions in the world, then at least 999 of them must be based on a whole load of made-up rubbish.
That literally made me lol. I nearly lost my sandwich over the laptop
It was a bit of luck though wasn't it.
I reckon they must have called him Christ cause it was Christmas Day.
Same here
Somebody banged on my door a few years back and said "Stand up for Jesus", to which I replied, "Sit down for Christ's sake"
They are a bit of a nuisance, I agree. As for when he was actually born, we'll probably never know. It's just a matter of choosing a date that all Christians can celebrate,
How about this for an analogy:
It's like different operating systems for computers - Windows, Mac, Linux etc. Different appearance, interface, graphics and commands, but theyre based on the same principles and have same intention. Just a different way of getting there!
Think the JWs are right about Christmas and Christ's birthday. The Christians took over the winter festival for themselves. Didnt it used to be dedicated to a Roman God Saturnalia or something, and before that various Winter Solstice gods and celebrations.
So I guess Christians have to believe that no other religion will do !
Well it's true the are told never to talk to ex-jehovah's, I'll have to try that next time the response could be amusing.
yup I believe the logic is that you shouldn't celebrate 'pagan' festivals, which is what Christmas originally was.
No idea what their problem with birthdays is though.
They don't celebrate Easter either and that's on the correct dates.
My husbands Nan used to do the same thing. She saw it as company, even though they knew she would never convert.
As to why they dont celebrate birthdays and easter:
http://www.watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm
I'm gonna try the ex JH approach now tho, sounds promising!
cheers for that.
Bit vague though:
they could apply the same argument to any activity that took place before Jesus - "Oh, basket weaving, that's not what Christians do, it's from ancient false religions"
It was just as likely to have been the 25th December as any other day.
They crap on about living the way the bible inented but then ostracise ex-witnesses, subjugate women and are greedy and dishonest in business.
Still, I suppose it's impossible to be a religious fundamentalist without being a hypocrite on some level.
No, not really given the "evidence" in the bible.
A friends brother was recruited by the JoHos and he told me that they basically don't "celebrate" anything that isn't specifically mentioned as something jesus did in the bible.
Weddings are OK as jesus went to a wedding, but birthdays and christmas weren't mentioned