Question: Who is Finland's most prominent philosopher?

History of Finnish philosophy

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Question: Who is Finland's most prominent philosopher?

History of Finnish philosophy

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Question: How much Jehovah New Baptists are estimated to be each year?

Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses is a Christian movement that emphasises end-time waiting and returning to the roots of Christianity that differs from mainstream Christianity, for example by not accepting the Trinity doctrine.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[1] Estimates of Jehovah's Witnesses membership range from 6 million worldwide [2] to more than 8.3 million in 240 different countries (2016).


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[3] [2] The deciding body of the movement, the nine-member Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses meeting in Warwick (New York), coordinates the activities and practices of the movement.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The Governing Body decides the movement's interpretation of the Bible.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[4] In Finland, Jehovah's Witnesses is the fourth largest religious community, after the Evangelical Lutheran, Orthodox Church and the Pentecostal Church of Finland, the largest of the registered religious communities.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[5] [6] According to Statistics Finland's demographic statistics, Jehovah's Witnesses had a membership of 17,979 in Finland at the end of 2016.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Membership numbers have declined by about 1,100 people in the 2010s.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[7] As a religion, Jehovah's Witnesses emphasize adherence to their interpretation of the Bible in practical life, the use of the name Jehovah as the name of God, and the status of their religious community as the only true true Christian denomination.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

They believe secular power systems and other religions will be destroyed in the near future in the Armageddon War.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[8] Due to religious differences, the largest Christian denominations do not consider Jehovah's Witnesses to be Christians.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses publish magazines Watchtower and Wake Up! , and they have their own parish buildings, called kingdom halls.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Classification of the movement in Christian theology The religion of Jehovah's Witnesses differs from Christianity in several ways, such as by rejecting the doctrine of the Trinity [9], considering Jesus as Michael the Archangel, [10] as well as denying the existence of eternal damnation as stated by the Bible, restricting to heaven access to only 144000 anointed people [11], as well as believing Jesus returned to earth in 1914 invisibly, this is the current conception, previously taught by Jehovah's Witnesses that Jesus returned in 1874.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[12] Jehovah's Witnesses is a monotheistic religion based on the Judeo-Christian tradition.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

However, according to popular perception, Jehovah's Witnesses are not counted as belonging to Christian movements because Jehovah's Witnesses do not recognize the doctrine of the tri-common God and the deity of Christ.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Thus, Jehovah's Witnesses also do not accept the so-called ecumenical confessions of faith in which these doctrines are defined, nor otherwise the general ecclesiastical tradition of interpretation of Christianity.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses regard the Trinity as an adjunct to Greek or Hellenistic culture that was not accepted as a doctrine until the 3rd century share, and which they say neither Jews nor early Christians had.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses hold that the original Christianity preached by Jesus and the apostles is corrupted in present-day Christendom [13] and that pure worship was restored by God Himself in the late 19th century through Charles Taze Russell and a group of Bible scholars born around him.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses regard Christian churches as depraved, and they dismiss themselves from any ecumenical co-operation with other religious movements.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Christian churches are considered by Jehovah's Witnesses to be the Great Babylon and the Harlot according to their interpretation of the Biblical Book of Revelation.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[14] According to Jehovah's Witnesses, there must therefore be only one correct form of worship.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses use the New World translation of the Bible they deliver in their teaching work and at their own meetings, where the most significant difference from many other translations is the use of the Jehovah name more than 7,000 times.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[15] The expectation of the apocalypse, or Armageddon, is central to the doctrine of Jehovah's Witnesses.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Based on this, Jehovah's Witnesses have been considered eschatological.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Witnesses do not believe the entire planet will be destroyed, but that the current world order, with its nation states and nations, will be replaced by the kingdom of God and the paradise inhabited by its adherents.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Considered the founder of the movement, Charles Russell, president of the Watchtower Society, expected the Kingdom of God to be realised on earth and the Battle of Armageddon to take place as early as 1914.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Although this expectation was not realised, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that 1914 began the “time of the end”.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Later Jehovah's Witnesses have set expectations for the onset of Armageddon for, among other things, 1925 and 1975, and still in the 1980s considered unlikely the survival of the current world order into the turn of the millennium.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[16] They believe that the Battle of Armageddon is preceded by the turning of political powers under the leadership of the United Nations against the false religions of the world and destroying them in order to fulfil the prophecies of the Biblical Book of Revelation.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[17] This is followed, according to them, by the Battle of Armageddon, in which the reigns are destroyed and in which Jehovah is preserved not only those faithful to God, but who have not had the opportunity to learn the Bible's truth about God.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Birth Stages and History During the early 1870s in Allegheny in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States, a relatively modest, Charles Taze Russell-led bible study group began to operate in the area of present-day Pittsburgh.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Russell drew strong influences from the Adventist movement, particularly in formulating prophecies for the date of the apocalypse.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Among other things, he emphasized personal faith, his opposition to organizing into a church-like organization, and the importance that the group formed around him would be known only as Christians and not by any other specific name.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[18] In 1881, the Zion Watchtower Tractate Society was founded and Russell became its president.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The association's name was later changed to the Watchtower Bible and Tractate Society.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The association was formed to publish and disseminate religious literature written by Russell.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Joseph Franklin Rutherford, who was at the head of the movement from 1916 to 1942, got hold of a few of Russell's books in 1884 and became convinced by what he said.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

He was baptized as a Bible scholar in 1906, and later became an official advisor to the Watchtower Society.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Rutherford was elected manager of the club in January 1917 following Russell's death.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In the summer of 1917, the leadership of the movement split, and some of the members turned against the Rutherford line.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The power struggle escalated and as a result independent groups of bible scholars broke away from the movement.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In 1918—1919, Rutherford began a worldwide series of presentations called The World Has Ended, but the millions who now live will never die.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In 1931, Bible scholars led by Rutherford adopted Jehovah's Witnesses as their name, referring to the 43rd chapter of the biblical Book of Isaiah and verses 10—12.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The name change away from bible scholars liking Russell was one of Rutherford's most significant moves within the movement against those who opposed him.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Subsequently, the organisation has been an independent, missionary and actively spreading religion.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Calling themselves Bible scholars, supporters of Russell's original views still gather mostly in the United States, but the activity is small-scale.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

From 1942 to 1975, the Watchtower Club was headed by Nathan Homer Knorr.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In 1943, the Watchtower Bible School Gilead was established to coach missionary workers.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The school is located in Patterson, New York City.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Under Knorr, the community's membership grew from 115,000 to about two million, or nearly 800 percent.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[19] In the fold of the 1960s and 1970s, it was widely believed that the apocalypse would come in 1975 among the movement's members.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The movement's journals and other publications dealt with what 1975 would bring when it came and raised numerous speculations about what would happen in the year then or by then.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The year was considered prophetic and special because Jehovah's Witnesses believed mankind's six thousand years of existence would come full precisely in 1975.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

When the expectation for 1975 did not materialize, between 1975 and 1980 the activity of movement members in the preaching work decreased considerably and many left the movement.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Between 1977 and 1978, the movement's worldwide membership numbers exceptionally declined.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[20] In the fold of the 1970s and 1980s, after the disappointment of 1975, groups practicing independent bible interpretation were formed in the movement's main office in the United States.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In 1976, the governing body based at the World Center in Brooklyn was expanded; administrative functions were allocated and delegated to committees made up of members of the governing body.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Today, there is no single person at the head of the operation; decisions are made by the governing body.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Since Knorr's death, Frederick William Franz, as well as Milton G. Henschel, who was the last prominent president of the club, have served as the club's “presidents”, or presidents.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Today, the Watchtower Society is chaired by Don A. Adams, but the post is mainly formal.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The most significant doctrinal change of the period was the repeal of generational teaching in 1995.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

According to an abandoned notion, the apocalypse would come before the last of those alive in 1914 die.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

After the change, Jehovah's Witnesses continued to stress that the end of the world is near, but did not set a deadline or deadline for its coming until 2010. At that time, witnesses began to teach that the Armageddon War would apparently be fought no later than before all those who have lived at the same time as those who survived in 1914 have died.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[21] The activities of Jehovah's Witnesses have expanded strongly even after 1975.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The movement today has 8 million members and has operations in more than 240 countries.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Beginning of operations in Finland Finland operations began in 1910.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Statistics Worldwide, there are 2500000-300000 new baptized annually.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In 2014, 275581 members were baptized.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[22] The monthly peak of active declarers is reported in 2015 at over 8.2 million, with 240 countries.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Proclaimers reported preaching work through the world 1933473968 hours.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

They ran an average of 9708968 for free Bible study.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[23] In 2015, there were 8220105 active word-servants in the organisation.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Growth from 2014 was 1.5 per cent.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Only active, baptized parishioners who attended word service are officially counted in the membership count.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Members spent more than 1.93 billion hours on preaching work.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

At the commemoration of Jesus' death, 19862783 people were present.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The number of Jehovah's Witnesses congregations in the world is just under 118016, and the organization has activities in 240 countries and territories.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Finland had an average of 18574 active members in 2015.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In Finland, members spent 3069284 hours on sermon work, and 25924 people were present at the commemoration.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[24] [25] [26] In Finland Jehovah's Witnesses is the third largest registered religious community.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[27] In 2011, there were an average of 18710 members.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[22] The number of members has remained practically the same in recent years: in 2014 there was 22 members decreasing from the previous year, and 236 members were baptized in that year.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[22] Publishing Jehovah's Witnesses offer interested parties the opportunity for free Bible study using aids published by the movement.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

For the past few years mainly the book What the Bible really teaches in teaching new ones has mainly been used.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The organisation also publishes two journals.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The Watchtower is, according to the organisation's own announcement, the largest religious journal in the world.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Each issue is printed on average 52946000 copies in 240 languages.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[28] In the past, magazines were available for nominal compensation, but those willing today may give a voluntary donation to cover their costs.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Wake up!


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Jehovah's Witnesses

is the sister magazine of the previous and focuses on current affairs.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The Watchtower appears twice a month.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Since the beginning of 2008, one of the two monthly issues is mainly intended for members of the movement and contains weekly material to be studied at the Reich Hall on Sundays.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Wake up! magazine appears once a month.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In 2012, the JW.org website was launched, which is readable in more than 500 languages and from which witness literature can be downloaded in over 750 languages.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

It is the most translated website in the world (8/2014) [29] In 2014, the JW Broadcasting website was launched, featuring family-friendly internet television subtitled and live broadcasts as well as many of the organisation's videos, music, audio dramas and dramatized Bible reading.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[30] Administration The activities of the movement are highly organized, and its administration is divided into several small steps.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Its senior management is the governing body based in Warwick, New York State.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In each country, operations are run by a branch office.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The Finnish branch office is located in Tikkurila, Vantaa.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The branch office is run by a so-called branch committee.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In addition, the country is divided into regions whose activities are controlled by a regional supervisor, and there are two of these in Finland.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The regions, in turn, are divided into rounds.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Each round has a lap supervisor who, on a rotating week, visits each ward twice a year of his round.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

There are 17 rounds in Finland.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Rounds are formed by congregations that control the activities of local word servants.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Tour stewards and district supervisors are also said to be travel supervisors.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The parish is run by an elder whose choice is taken care of by the upper stairs.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Each parish has, among others, an Elder Coordinator, a Service Supervisor, a Secretary, Watchtower Examination Supervisor, and a Theocratic Service School Supervisor.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Several of these missions rotate annually.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Based on the Biblical guideline, only male are used as congregational overseers and teachers.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In addition, congregations have appointed assisting servants, each of whom may have some specific function such as responsible for the literature of the congregation, take care of sound equipment and stage, or serve as public servants at conventions.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

All elders are, at some point, assisting servants first.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Funding Activities Jehovah's Witnesses use money to build branch offices and convention halls, as well as maintaining kingdom halls built by congregations, among other things.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Since the Watchtower Society publishes religious literature, money is also needed for the purchase and maintenance of printing presses and supplies.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Printing in branch offices is carried out by volunteers residing in the branch office premises, for whom maintenance and nominal monetary compensation are provided for personal needs.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Some others who work full-time for the organisation, for example missionaries, are also compensated.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

However, no one is paid an actual salary.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

All activities are funded by donations available from members and those interested in activities.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[31] The Watchtower Society grants loans to individual congregations wishing to build or renovate the Reich Hall for their use.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[32] Until the 1990s, the organisation had a special literary price list in place, on the basis of which, when charged, each parish poster acquired paid literature for his own use and continued to be sold in preaching work.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In January 1990, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the case of Jimmy Swaggart, a television evangelist selling religious literature, that a tax had to be paid on the sale of religious literature.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In connection with the judicial review of the case, the Watchtower Society submitted a so-called “amicus curiae” petition, by which it petitioned for the preservation of the tax exemption from the sale of religious literature.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[33] Beginning in March 1990, literature no longer had a price list in the United States; the production of literature was funded through voluntary donations.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The practice spread within a decade to all countries where Jehovah's Witnesses had operations.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The Watchtower Society has not made figures available to the public on its assets or the financial scale of its activities.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In 2003, the Newsday.com publication placed the New York-registered Watchtower Society in 34th place on the New York City Top Private Companies 2003 list based on its annual revenues of approximately $951 million.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[34] Former Governing Body member Raymond Franz has voiced criticism of the status of property in the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

He tells [35] in his book Crisis of Conscience about Mexican Jehovah's Witnesses.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

According to Franz, Mexican law prohibited all religious organizations from owning property such as the Watchtower Society, from its main office in New York, instructed Mexican Jehovah's Witnesses to abandon prayers and songs at public meetings and conventions, and in field service for the use of the Bible in order to maintain his kingdom hall under his administration.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

They register as a cultural association rather than a religious community, and their gatherings were called “cultural meetings” and congregations as “corporations”.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Designations such as “baptism” were waived so that the Reich Halls would not have passed into state control, although assembly in the premises would not have been restricted.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

According to Franz, this arrangement was maintained until the change in law until the turn of the 1990s.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Construction and humanitarian work Jehovah's Witnesses are known for their construction work.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

International and regional building groups make kingdom halls using the so-called quick-hall method.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

A quick hall means that a large group of members build a Reich Hall over one or two weekends on top of the finished foundations.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Large construction projects are also carried out almost entirely by voluntary force.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

All Jehovah's Witnesses' congregations in Finland now meet in purpose-built kingdom halls.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The organisation will contribute some relief effort, if funds permit.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In Africa, the organisation's Hutu and Tutsi witnesses have been assisted at the time of the Rwandan massacre.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Humanitarian work is primarily about helping other members.


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In some places, the movement's buildings may have been used as temporary shelters.


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Medicines and clothing have been distributed to a few schools and orphanages in Goma.


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[36] Views and Practices Basis of views Jehovah's Witnesses agree with Protestant churches that the Bible is the supreme guideline of faith and doctrine.


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According to them, the Bible is infallible and non-contradictory in all respects.


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Members of the movement are required to accept the governing body's current interpretation of the Bible, and the formation of a view that differs from the main lines is not accepted.


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Invoking a deviant interpretation might even lead to separation from the congregation.


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The bible interpretation of Jehovah's Witnesses has undergone numerous changes throughout the history of the movement.


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Continued learning changes are, according to the movement, “progress made in understanding the Bible” and a “brightening of light.”


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In colloquial language and literature, Jehovah's Witnesses use the general concept of “truth” from the current Biblical interpretation and doctrinal system of the movement.


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The movement has produced its own English translation of the Bible, the New World Translation, of which a Finnish translation has been made.


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According to the translators, it has sought the most verbatim translation of the initial text into modern English and, consequently, into other languages.


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Some Bible scholars criticize the translation solutions of the New World Translation as supporting Jehovah's Witnesses' interpretation of the Bible.


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[37] See also: New World Translation of Jehovah's Witnesses Teachings The movement emphasizes the use of God's personal name Jehovah.


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Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in the trinity.


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Jesus Christ is, according to them, the son of God, a created being.


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Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus is currently King in Heaven.


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He has a beginning, while Jehovah God has neither a beginning nor an end.


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The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, is God's acting power


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According to them, man is an entity created by God, a living soul.


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After the fall of sin, man is inherently mortal, but he can receive immortality as a gift from God (so-called conditionalism).


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Human salvation is based on the death suffered by Jesus in the torture pile, a reconciliation offering, or ransom.


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The existence of hell as a perpetual torture site is disputed.


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Sinner people are disposed of at God's deadline to non-existent (so-called annihilationism).


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According to Jehovah's Witnesses, mankind has lived since 1914 in the “last days” mentioned in Matthew's 24th chapter.


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They believe that in the future Jehovah God through his son Jesus Christ will eradicate the present world order and its adherents in the Armageddon War.


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After that, faithful Christians will restore the earth into a place similar to the Garden of Eden, where people are allowed to live forever.


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After Armageddon, a resurrection is believed to begin, in which faithful servants of God who died before Armageddon are resurrected from the dead.


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Jesus Christ and the chosen 144,000 in heaven lead the people in the restoration works of paradise.


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After a thousand years from Armageddon, Christ hands over kingship back to God, allowing Satan “thrown into the abyss” in Armageddon to go free to test for the last time who is faithful to God.


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After this test, God will destroy Satan once and for all.


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According to Jehovah's Witnesses, before the final test, humans have been brought back to the same perfect state in which Adam and Eve were originally before they fell into sin.


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The concept of baptism among Jehovah's Witnesses is Baptist, meaning that baptism includes only those who have professed their faith.


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Jehovah's Witnesses baptisms are similar to Christian communities with the Baptist concept of baptism insofar as baptism is delivered in immersion by using.


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However, Christian communities with the baptist ring concept of baptism do not consider Jehovah's Witness baptisms valid because Jehovah's Witnesses do not recognize Trinity doctrine.


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Jehovah's Witnesses, on the other hand, do not consider valid any baptism other than their own.


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Based on their interpretation of the Bible, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that there are two classes of Christians: the 144,000 anointed in the slave class who, when they die, go to heaven to reign over humanity with Jesus Christ, and other Jehovah worshippers awaiting admission to terrestrial paradise.


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The apostles, early Christians and today about 11000 professing to be members of the slave class form that group of 144,000 heavenly rulers.


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Serving God Movement members believe that faithful servants of God have existed throughout human history, starting with Abel in the Old Testament.


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[38] During his time on earth, Jesus Christ taught the truth about God and established Christianity.


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According to their understanding, however, the original Christianity became corrupted and disappeared after the time of the Apostles.


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In this case, the Church began to confuse secular power, transforming the doctrine into a pagan one and trying to suppress pure worship.


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However, members of Jehovah's Witnesses think that in all centuries God has had at least some sincere servants on earth, despite the persecution inflicted upon them.


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The movement's current activity began in the early 1870s with a group studying the Bible in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.


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They were known at the time as Bible scholars.


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According to the community's understanding, Jehovah God began at that time to rally his people.


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Charles Taze Russell, leader of the Adventist-inspired group of Bible Scholars, declared that Jesus was already present invisibly beginning in 1874.


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At the same time, he began to critically study the doctrines of Christian churches.


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Jehovah's Witnesses believe that in 1919 God observed that on earth only those Bible scholars preached Christ's invisible presence and pure Christian doctrine.


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Based on this, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that they are the only true Christians and that God guides the community.


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[39] Meetings Meetings Meeting places are the kingdom halls, which are their places of worship.


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Kingdom halls are usually simple and modestly decorated.


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No images are used for worship, so there are also no icons or paintings that receive religious observance in the halls.


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The men do the teaching in the parishes.


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In the service, parishioners usually refer to each other as brothers and sisters, for example Brother Virtanen.


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There are a total of three to four hours of meetings per week.


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Each meeting addresses biblical topics in different ways.


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Specifically aimed at the public, the meeting is a 30-minute audience presentation on Sunday followed by an hour-long examination of the Watchtower magazine.


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In the examination, one of the articles interpreting the Bible in the journal is examined.


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Articles are divided into numbered paragraphs.


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The so-called Watchtower Summaries reader reads a paragraph at a time, and the chairman then presents the audience with the printed, read paragraph-by-paragraph questions to the audience.


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Answers are usually found directly in paragraphs, but some of the questions are reflective in nature, and more experienced Jehovah's Witnesses in particular present perspectives within the framework of movement doctrine in response to them.


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Arkena is one meeting in the Reich Hall for the life and service of a Christian who started at the beginning of 2016.


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[40] The meeting lasts in its entirety 1h 45min and its parts are: Treasures of God's Word.


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The program discusses the features of a weekly bible reading program.


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Coaching for field service.


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Deals with different forms of preaching work as its name suggests, includes pair-three exercises.


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Life as a Christian (45min), includes one or two sections that help listeners apply Biblical principles (15min) Congregational Bible study, addressed with questions and answers.


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(30min) In the past, parishioners also gathered as daily lives in small assigned groups for an occasion called book examination in private homes, but from the beginning of 2009 the parish book examination in the kingdom hall replaced the one held in private homes.


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The programme of meetings and publications to be used are unified throughout the world, so in any part of the world Jehovah's Witnesses go through the same material at the meetings.


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The congregation meetings are started and concluded with a joint song (so called:


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Kingdom Songs) and with a prayer held by one of the brothers from the stage from the front of the hall.


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There is also chanting in between meetings.


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The meeting ends with song and prayer.


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In addition to the meetings, Jehovah's Witnesses hold larger events, conventions, three times a year: two smaller round conventions, where all congregations in the part of the round (usually 5—7 congregations and about 500 people) gather, and a bigger regional convention in the summer where people gather in the district belonging members (usually about 4,000 to 6,000 Jehovah's Witnesses at one time.


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Summer regional conventions in Finland are most commonly held in Helsinki, Tampere and Oulu.


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There is also a Swedish-speaking regional convention in Hämeenlinna.


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The Nordic English-speaking regional convention rotates by tide in different Nordic countries.


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In 2016, it was held in Helsinki.


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The convention halls where the round conventions are held are similar in appearance to smaller kingdom halls.


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Finland has three convention halls, one in Hämeenlinna, one in Varkaus and the Oulu Convention Hall in Kello, Oulu.


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Religious Symbols and Holidays The movement does not accept the use of religious symbols such as the cross or images.


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The use of images and symbols is considered idolatry.


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Although the cross was still partially in use during Russell's time, today Jehovah's Witnesses do not use the cross, justifying it as follows: the instrument of execution of Jesus must not be an object of appreciation because it is an instrument of slaying.


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Jesus is believed to have been executed in a straight pile, not on a cross.


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The cross came with them to early Christianity accompanied by pagan converts.


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The rationale uses the fact that many ancient pagan peoples, such as the Egyptians and Babylonians, used crosses in religious editorials.


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The cross and crown surrounded by a wreath was the emblem of Bible scholars and later Jehovah's Witnesses from 1891—1931.


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[41] The use of the cross was abandoned when the movement began to interpret the cross as being associated with pagan religions.


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The emblem in which the cross appears is on the grave of Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the movement.


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Today, the cross is not used as part of the visual look in publications or the movement's logo; instead, the cross and crown have been replaced by a tower.


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The movement also does not accept the celebration of ecclesiastical holidays because the origins of Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and other holidays lie in paganism according to Jehovah's Witnesses.


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In addition, the celebrations in question involve customs derived from paganism, such as the Christmas tree and Easter eggs, and sometimes also immorality.


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The only annual religious holiday celebrated by Jehovah's Witnesses is the commemoration of Jesus' death, or celebration of remembrance in the spring, around the time of the Jewish pesah.


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Preaching Work Each member of the congregation is expected to preach as possible as they wish.


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Normally, Jehovah's Witnesses are known for their door-to-door preaching.


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At the end of each calendar month, each member of the congregation returns a report to their congregation indicating the amount of proclamation work for the month, together with information on the printed matter distributed in the preaching work.


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Each baptized witness must do preaching work for at least an hour a month, which can in practice be, say, a discussion of spiritual matters with a non-believer relative.


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You cannot obtain responsibilities in the parish unless you spend sufficient time on preaching activities.


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As an exception to the one-hour requirement, a service committee formed from parish elders may allow in a special case reporting preaching work for only 15 minutes per month.


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A lightened arrangement can be reached if preaching is difficult, for example because of age or illness.


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[42] If a member does not report for at least one hour in a month or 15 minutes in a lightened case, he shall be called an irregular declarer.


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If non-reporting continues for six months, the declarer becomes inactive.


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[43] The order and rules of congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses congregations discipline is handled by the elders.


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Elders have at their disposal a book published by the Watchtower Society Pay attention to yourselves and the whole flock, which provides detailed instructions on disciplinary proceedings to elders, among other things.


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An ordinary movement member cannot obtain a book for viewing, nor is it referenced in other material intended by the movement to be public.


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The instructions in the book are supplemented from time to time.


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Disciplinary actions include public handing out and dismissal.


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Separation is preceded by a session of the Congregational Court of Justice, or Judicial Committee, in which the severity of a person's sin is assessed and possible disciplinary action is decided.


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After separation, members of the elder endeavour to visit each separated once a year to direct him back to the congregation.


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Sins classified as serious For example, the following sins are classified as serious sins that, as unrepentant acts, lead to separation from the congregation: Premarital sex, adultery, blatant impurity [44] Homosexual sex [45] Apostasy: the fact that denies any On the basic teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses or actively participates in other denominations [46] [47] Not carding blood (taking blood transfusions, donating blood, eating blood) [48] Gambling [49] Smoking or taking drugs [44] Excessive alcohol Abuse [50] Standing as a candidate in political elections or political activity in parties for example [51] Separating from the movement from Jehovah's Witnesses can differ in two ways: By formal notice.


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A person can either verbally or in writing declare that they no longer wish to be a Jehovah's Witness.


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By their own actions.


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A person may, by his own conduct, demonstrate that he is no longer part of Jehovah's Witnesses.


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[52] Attitudes towards those separated and divorced from the congregation The movement strongly condemns members' interactions with those who have been separated or divorced from the congregation on non-essential matters.


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On separation it says: Jehovah's Witnesses urge members of the movement to avoid close interactions even with family members and relatives who have separated or become separated from the congregation.


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However, of those living in the same household, it is said: “Does this mean that Christians living with a separated family member in the same household must avoid talking, eating, and having daily interactions with him?


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In the Watchtower on April 15, 1991, a footnote on page 22 says: “If a Christian householder has a separated relative, he is still involved in the normal everyday work and activities of the househouse.” It therefore remains up to family members to what extent the separated could be involved in joint meals and other family activities.


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On the other hand, they do not wish to give the brothers in the congregation the impression that everything is the same as before separation.” [53] — “[Separation or resignation of a family member] implies changes in the spiritual cohesion which may have prevailed in the home.” [54] If separated relative living in one's household, such as an adult child or adult siblings who moved away from home, contact with such can be stopped almost completely: The separated has the option of returning to becoming a Jehovah's Witness if they have ceased to proceed or think in a way because of which he was expelled.


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If the separated comes to the Reich Hall in order to return to the congregation, he or she will be directed to the elder members.


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Members of the congregation do not converse with the separated either in the Reich Hall during the time when the separated shows remorse by attending meetings.


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Depending on the case, the time required for admission may last from a few months to years.


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A separated or divorcee wishing to rejoin the congregation should refer a request for readmission to the Judicial Committee that dismissed him or her.


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The Committee shall consider the application and, if necessary, provide guidance on how the separated should proceed in order to better meet the requirements for readmission.


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If a separated person is accepted back as a member of the congregation, parishioners, relatives and friends can again greet, discuss and interact with him or her.


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If a member of the movement repeatedly socializes with persons who have been separated or separated from the congregation, the loss of any congregational positions of trust and eventual separation from the congregation ensues.


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Whoever is self-divorced from the congregation will be treated in the same way as someone who is separated.


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Separation applies only to a baptized congregation member.


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Those who have not attended baptism and are removed or leave the parish activities themselves are not treated in the manner mentioned above; baptized members of the movement may continue to interact with them according to their conscience.


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Habits Relationship with Society Jehovah's Witnesses doctrines generally emphasize honest work and the performance of taxes, fees and other obligations, as well as reasonableness in alcohol use.


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They will seek to comply with the legislation as long as it does not conflict with their convictions.


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Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Christians must remain neutral in relation to society and political systems.


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That's why they don't think it's appropriate to belong to parties.


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Jehovah's Witnesses also do not vote or stand as candidates in political elections.


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Since World War I, the Watchtower Society has required members of congregations to refuse military service and until 1996 to refuse civilian service.


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[55] Jehovah's Witnesses have been imprisoned for this reason, and the refusal has sometimes caused serious difficulties for members of the movement in totalitarian countries.


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During World War II in Germany, some 2000 members of the movement perished in concentration camps and prisons after refusing to perform a Nazi salute and serve in the armed forces.


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[56] [57] Jehovah's Witnesses were also subject to violence in some other countries, as they were seen to be a threat to the war effort because of their non-nationalist worldview.


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Subsequently, the Watchtower Society was banned in countries such as Canada, Australia and Finland.


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[58] In Finland, the ban on the activities of the Watchtower Society was preceded by the confiscation of its publications Government and Peace and Freedom for the Peoples on 18 January 1940 by decision of the Ministry of Justice.


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[59] Criticism and Limitations of Activity Although separation from Jehovah's Witnesses is easy in itself, according to former members, seceding is nevertheless perceived as difficult, as friends, family members and relatives who remain Jehovah's Witnesses are forced to shun the expelled from the congregation or divorced.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Features of the administration of justice within congregations, such as negative attitudes towards secular litigation between congregation members, have been feared to contribute, among other things, to the activities of child abusers.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

An example of this is Barbara Anderson, a former Governing Body aide who criticised the action.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[60] In France in 1996, the Parliamentary Working Group on Inquiry classified the organization as one of 173 dangerous suspected sects that a special institution was set up to observe.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[61] Since then, the tax exemption for the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in France was abolished and the state demanded a large posthumous tax on Jehovah's Witnesses in France from 1993 to 1996.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In 2011, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that France had violated the rights of Jehovah's Witnesses in this, and in July 2012 it ordered France to pay 4.5 million euros to witnesses.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In Russia, the court decided in March 2004 to ban the movement from operating in the Moscow


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In the court's view, the movement's practices violate families, drive to suicide and threaten the health of its members by banning blood transfusions.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[62] Admittedly, the Organization for the Activities of Cults and Neo-Religions states that “the attitude of anti-cult movements towards Jehovah's Witnesses and other religious communities is considered discriminatory within human rights lawyers; most anti-cult organizations have not been able to to provide evidence to support their claims; most organizations have not cited Jehovah's Witnesses' contributions to the cause of religious freedom”.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[63] The Supreme Court of Russia has declared the Jehovah's Witness Administrative Center to be extremist on April 20, 2017.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

According to YLE, the decision means that its activities will be deemed prohibited and the assets will be confiscated.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[64] [65] UN-NGO ally membership 1992—2001 The Watchtower Society of Jehovah's Witnesses applied for NGO ally membership in the UN Information Department in 1991 and was admitted to NGO membership in 1992.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The Watchtower Society referred to as a speciality in human rights and published a few writings on the UN and human rights in a positive light during that time, especially Awake! magazine.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[66] Through their various organizations, Jehovah's Witnesses also participated in the UN Human Rights Commission.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[67] Allies membership ended in [68] just days after membership entered the public domain, [69] and it was raised that Jehovah's Witnesses regard the UN as a beast of the Book of Revelation in their theology and have cited it as being “a forgery mocking the God of the Kingdom of God” [70] and that they have for years been criticizing other religions for collaborating with the UN.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[71] On 4 March 2004, due to numerous contacts, the UN published a bulletin on its website, [72], which mentioned, among other things, the need for Jehovah's Witnesses to the United Nations that the organisation share the ideals of the UN Charter.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Religion has not commented on the case.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Refusing military service and civilian service Jehovah's Witnesses believe Christians should refrain from violence and practice armed defense.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Refusal to perform military service has led to the imprisonment of thousands of conscription age Jehovah's Witnesses in various countries.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

For decades Jehovah's Witnesses also refused to perform civilian service replacing military service.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The Watchtower Society justified refusal from civilian service, among other things, that civilian service was intended solely as a substitute for military service, and to perform it would violate the Bible's call to Christians to remain neutral.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[73] These arguments were overturned and the view of civilian service was changed in 1996, when the Watchtower magazine allowed members of the movement to perform non-military civilian service under civilian administration.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[74] Before the change, thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses in different countries suffered prison sentences after refusing military service and also the civil service that replaced it.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Several European countries, such as Sweden, [75] Germany, Holland, France, Poland [76] and Finland, have since, in the post-World War II period, through various arrangements, exempted Jehovah's Witnesses from performing peacetime military service and civil service.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[77] In other parts of the world, exemption from service has been given in countries such as Israel, [78] Armenia [79] and Kyrgyzstan [80].


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In countries where Jehovah's Witnesses have no exemption, such as Greece and Russia, many of them today perform civil service.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In December 2005, more than 1,000 Jehovah's Witnesses were imprisoned for conscientious objector in South Korea, as the country's law knows no possibility of civilian service at all.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[81] [82] Total prohibition in Finland under the law that came into force in Finland in 1987, Jehovah's Witnesses have had the opportunity to obtain an exemption from performing conscription during peacetime.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[83] A Jehovah's Witness of conscription age shall receive a deferment of three years at a time until he reaches the age of 28, when he is released from peacetime service as a member of the congregation.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Before the Emancipation Act came into force, Jehovah's Witnesses were sentenced as total denialists to custodial sentences.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

During World War II, the sentence for refusal was, for example, three and a half years of discipline room.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[84] From 1947 to 1961, refusing Jehovah's Witnesses were held in a camp organised and guarded by Hanko's Coastal Patteristo in the outer archipelago of Raseborg on Hästö-Busö fortress island for 240 days, with a sentence of 3 to 6 months imprisonment.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[85] In 1959, refusal sentences were extended.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Beginning in 1961, Jehovah's Witnesses were assigned to serve at the Karvia Special Works Institution, established in place of the Karvia Reserve Prison, which was abolished in 1960.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[86] [87] In the Karvia Special Work Institution, the mandatory period of service for Jehovah's Witnesses was approximately two years [88] and had to be performed closed, without the possibility of moving around the territory of the institution or beyond.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[89] The conditions of the facility began to be characterised in public as concentration camp-like.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[90] [89] President Urho Kekkonen visited the facility in August 1968 and the facility closed in 1969.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[91] Jehovah's Witnesses began to be sentenced, like other refusers, to nine-month prison sentences until the release procedure took effect in 1987.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

On December 4, 2006, the Department of Defense announced intentions to set up a task force to determine the necessity of discharge from performing conscription for Jehovah's Witnesses.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[92] The Commission for Examining the National Defence Duty of Jehovah's Witnesses, which was set to task on 14 March 2007, was commissioned to determine the necessity of the law concerning the exemption of Jehovah's Witnesses from performing conscription in some cases and the Constitution provisions and to submit a proposal for regulatory reform.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The Commission was unable to make a legislative proposal to resolve the matter, but ended up proposing a broad round of opinions on the matter.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[93] Opinions received from a major round of opinions held in 2008 were to such an extent that no resolution was reached through the Opinion Round.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[94] In 2009, the Defence Forces asked for statements from abroad on how the matter has been handled in other countries.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The purpose of the Ministry of Defence was to once again establish a task force to consider the exemption of Jehovah's Witnesses from conscription.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

According to a spokesman for the Ministry of Defence, it is possible that nothing will eventually be done about it.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[95] According to the spokesperson of Jehovah's Witnesses in Finland, Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to “carry out conscription in all its forms” and therefore continue to receive “civil service derived from national defence duty”.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[96] [97] Each year approximately 150 Jehovah's Witnesses apply for deferments on the basis of the Jehovah's Witnesses Emancipation Act.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[98] [99] Morality Organization members' concepts of morality are based on the bible interpretation of the movement.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

They believe that according to the Bible, human life begins at conception, so abortion is considered murder.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The practice of homosexuality, premarital and extramarital sex is considered a grave sin, that is, grounds for separation from the congregation.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In worship, dress is considered neat: in Western countries such as Finland, men wear costume at meetings and other spiritual gatherings, and women wear dress or skirt.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Entertainment that includes the idolization of money or property, violence, sex or spiritism is condemned.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Earrings or long hair can, in men, prevent the obtaining of a responsible position or other duties in church activities.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Nor is a beard considered preferable, depending in part on the local culture.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Important is considered good behavior and the love of the neighbor, both in and outside the congregation.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Family Life Courtship and Marriage According to Jehovah's Witnesses teaching courtship should always seriously aim towards marriage.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Dating is recommended only with another baptized Jehovah's Witness.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[100] According to the movement's guidelines, a socializing couple should avoid staying alone in premises where they might engage in sexual intercourse or displays of affection deemed inappropriate by the organisation.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[101] This is why the organisation's guidelines recommend that a couple who are dating always carry an “apron” - that is, a companion - when they spend time in a place that is not a public space.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[102] Jehovah's Witnesses are instructed to marry only another Witness.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[100] Its basis is considered to be the advice given in the Bible 1.Corinthians () to marry “only in the Lord”.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Marrying an outsider does not result in separation from the congregation, but there are some consequences: for example, the loss of all duties to be performed in the parish.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[103] If the parents of someone married to an outsider approve or give it “tacit approval”, the loss of service benefits such as serving in the elder may result.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In family life, an interpretation of the model given by the Bible is followed.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The man is the head of the family and makes the final decisions.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The wife's job is to support and advise the husband, as well as respect the decisions made.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The man is urged to love as well as respect his wife and care for his family like Christ congregations.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In the family, the husband should bear responsibility for decisions and their consequences before God.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

He should take into account the wishes of his wife and the interests of the family.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Parents have a responsibility to teach their children.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

This is done in part through the family exploration method, which examines material published by the Watchtower Society.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Children are not baptized at birth; baptism occurs at the child's own decision.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Divorce Marriage is considered sacred and should not be dissolved at any time other than because of infidelity.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

If the marriage is dissolved without justification, the parties will not be able to remarry until infidelity has been demonstrated.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The reason is that Jehovah's Witnesses consider an unjustifiably dissolved marriage to be still valid before God and the congregation until adultery has occurred.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

However, if remarried, the “trespassing” person is usually expelled from the congregation.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[104] Sex according to Jehovah's Witnesses sex belongs only to marriage


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Any sexual behavior with a non-ordained spouse is considered a sin.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[105] Masturbation is also forbidden, although it is not considered a serious sin, but as an impure habit, the practice of which one must seek to get rid of, among other things, by praying for forgiveness from God.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[106] Contraception is not banned, but congregation members are given the freedom of choice to decide the direction of their lives: whether to have a family or not.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

There are biblical grounds to be found for both options according to jehovah's witnesses.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Abortion is not approved.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[107] Jehovah's Witnesses believe that married couples should also exercise reasonable self-control in their mutual sexual intercourse.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Alcohol and other intoxicants Members are allowed to consume alcohol, but binge drinking is a sin, and alcoholism can be grounds for separation.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Smoking is forbidden to members of the movement because it contaminates the body 2.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In accordance with Corinthians 7:1.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

It was banned in the 1970s, when a member of the congregation who smoked had six months to quit or would be expelled from the congregation.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Drug use is also considered a sin.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Drugs prescribed by a doctor, on the other hand, should be used according to the instructions.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Attitudes towards outsiders, criticism and media Jehovah's Witnesses take a negative view of their members' close befriending with outsiders.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[108] Members are not encouraged to participate actively, for example, in school clubs, sports clubs or NGOs.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[109] However, there are calls to be open and considerate to everyone, regardless of religion, race, gender or age.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

According to Jehovah's Witnesses, in particular former Jehovah's Witnesses sometimes disseminate false or misrepresented information about it on television and newspapers.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

There have been media reports of cases where a Jehovah's Witness has refused a blood transfusion or denied giving one to his child, and accusations of covering up abuse cases in congregations.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The leadership of Jehovah's Witnesses denies all accusations against them and considers them to be slander orchestrated by opponents.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[110] The organisation accuses its former active members, namely renegades, of spreading misrepresentations, lies and half-truths.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses are extremely negative about former members criticizing Jehovah's Witnesses' policies and teachings in the public eye and on the internet.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[111] The organisation recommends that parishioners avoid using search engines to search for information about Jehovah's Witnesses, as they may be accessed to sites run by former members.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[112] Witnesses have increasingly outspoken prohibited their members from reading material on the internet criticizing Jehovah's Witnesses' beliefs or practices, although otherwise Witnesses are happy to seek spiritual discussions with those who think differently.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Reading such critical texts is feared to undermine the faith of Jehovah's Witnesses because former Jehovah's Witnesses differ from other interlocutors by having sometimes believed in Jehovah themselves, and, having lost their faith, criticize the actions of their former brethren.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[111] Jehovah's Witnesses believe that criticism directed at them from non-former members constitutes persecution directed at them without reason, and that it proves that Jehovah's Witnesses are the group of so-called true believers who are persecuted for the fulfillment of biblical prophecies.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[113] The Watchtower Society has recently defended its rights more actively against material published on the Internet.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In January 2006, The Guardian reported in its online version that quotes from literature published by the Watchtower Society, the popular Canadian website Quotes.WatchTower.ca were shut down.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[114] The Legitimate Association of Jehovah's Witnesses had issued a subpoena for 100,000 Canadian Dollars to shut down the site citing copyright infringement and accusing the author of the fact that the main purpose of this is to bully the interested party by selectively quoting what was published by Jehovah's Witnesses literature.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Blood and Organ Transplants Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to consume foods containing blood and transfusions.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

This teaching is based on their understanding of the Biblical commandment to “shun blood”.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

According to them, blood should not be stored for later use, and therefore they also consider donating blood inappropriate.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Refusal from blood applies not only to whole blood, but also red blood cells, white blood cells, blood plasma and platelets separated from the blood.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Receiving blood components separated from the previous ones, such as hemoglobin and albumin, is currently left to the individual consideration of each member of the movement.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

This is justified, among other things, by the fact that during pregnancy the fetus receives some smaller parts of blood from its mother.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

The number of avoidable deaths caused by Jehovah's Witnesses blood doctrine is unknown, but considering the number of Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide, the number of deaths moves in at least thousands.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

In births alone, mothers' risk of death is known to increase more than a thousandfold, to 0.1 percent from less than 0.0001 percent when the mother refuses blood transfusions.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[115] Given the number of Jehovah's Witnesses, this amounts to at least 1450 avoidable maternal birthing deaths between 1995 and 2006.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[116] In modern medicine, whole blood transfusions are less common, and increasingly, surgery and medications use some component of blood.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Members of the organization can approve their own blood recycling in a closed system if it does not cut off normal blood flow and stored blood is directly counted back without longer storage.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

A question of conscience is also whether to accept mixing the drug with one's own blood outside the body.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Learning change permitting smaller parts of blood has come in the 21st century.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[117] Representatives of Jehovah's Witnesses have mentioned that increasing the amount of blood plasma is a common way to treat a patient in an emergency.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[118] Jehovah's Witnesses also report that in light of modern science, alternative, bloodless treatment options are safer for the patient and cost less.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[119] Taking an organ transplant is currently a matter to be decided in accordance with the conscience of each member of the movement [120] even though it involves a large number of external white blood cells entering the body.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses refused transplants between 1967 and 1980, when they were considered “nourishing the body with human flesh”, or cannibalism, in the literature of the movement.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[121] Although Jehovah's Witnesses also seek to prevent blood transfusions to underage children, law courts in Western countries, including Finland, [122] have intervened and, through custody, provided the child with the blood-related care they consider necessary.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Criticism of the movement has been met with regard to, among other things, Jehovah's Witnesses' perceptions of blood transfusions, neutrality, military service, and their way of treating former members of the movement.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Criticism often appears on internet message boards and media, where comments by Jehovah's Witnesses representatives, or literature published by them, often represent a minority alongside interviews with former movement members and material they publish.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Smaller religious groups that have split from the organisation have also emerged as a result of the criticism.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses are criticized for changing doctrines from time to time and the non-biblicality of the method.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[4] The Christian press has criticized the passing of several apocalyptic dates predicted by Jehovah's Witnesses without anything specific having happened, as a gnawing factor in the entire credibility of the movement's doctrines.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[123] Jehovah's Witnesses have been criticized for considering the current order of affairs to be corrupted and doomed by the soon-to-impending Armageddon, and for believing all other religions and denominations and political systems to be controlled by Satan the Slander.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Especially with other religions there is no desire to be in any co-operation, participating in politics is considered useless and siding with Satan against the kingdom of God.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses believe the Kingdom of God will solve all problems on Earth in the future.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

This view of society meets critical disposition.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

[124] In Germany, the authorities for a long time prevented the adoption of Jehovah's Witnesses as a public law community because of their negative stance on voting.


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Jehovah's Witnesses

However, Jehovah's Witnesses in various countries have actively sought to register as a denomination as expected from state denominations.


Question: How much Jehovah New Baptists are estimated to be each year?

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The attitude of Jehovah's Witnesses to blood has been criticized.


Question: How much Jehovah New Baptists are estimated to be each year?

Jehovah's Witnesses

The current blood doctrine of Jehovah's Witnesses divides blood into several parts, some of which are forbidden to members of the movement, some not.


Question: How much Jehovah New Baptists are estimated to be each year?

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The split has been accused of being arbitrary and claimed not to be based in any way on the Bible.


Question: How much Jehovah New Baptists are estimated to be each year?

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Jehovah's Witnesses also do not approve of blood donation.


Question: How much Jehovah New Baptists are estimated to be each year?

Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses have received criticism for requiring their members to shun dealing with former congregation members.


Question: How much Jehovah New Baptists are estimated to be each year?

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These separated or divorced are not to be greeted and efforts are made to shun them.


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Former Jehovah's Witnesses have occasionally given interviews critical of the organisation's modus operandi on television, radio [125] [126] and the press.


Question: How much Jehovah New Baptists are estimated to be each year?

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[127] The treatment of former members and those contemplating submission has been presented as “spiritual violence”.


Question: How much Jehovah New Baptists are estimated to be each year?

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[128] Jehovah's Witnesses have also been accused of covering up child sexual abuse in their community.


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Attitudes towards Jehovah's Witnesses in Finland in Finland, former Jehovah's Witnesses have been organizing protests with the Victims of Religions Association during the largest annual gathering of Jehovah's Witnesses since 1999.