"The Calendar of Jehovah God" (page 4)

Quendi

I have always been fascinated by calendars, so this is an interesting thread. I’ll download the material and give it a closer look. To me, the whole exercise is crazy. Why bother with devising a calendar that stood a snowball’s chance in a blast furnace of ever being used by anybody not affiliated with the WTS? It would be a complete waste of time. But Rutherford was bent on making Jehovah’s Witnesses as separate and distinct from “worldly religion” as he could so that may explain his initial attraction to the project. Evidently he came to his senses and then put the kibosh on the whole enterprise.

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cabasilas:

I think that this illustrates the fallacy of seeking "pagan origins" in our current customs. When we refer to Wednesday are we honoring Woden? Or Thor on Thursday? Or, when a bride wears a veil at her wedding is she doing so because she's trying to ward off demons? Or, when Americans use the American dollar bill which has the all seeing eye of Horus on the reverse (and a pyramid to boot!) are they involved in demon worship? Or, when someone puts up a Christmas tree in their home are they honoring ancient pagan deities? No. These things have lost any association to paganism today.

mP

Well one of the primary reasons for reintroducing "Jehovah" was to honour his name out loud instead of substituting "lord". This is official WTS doctrine so when they say the names of other gods they too are being honoured. Those gods are only alive because we remember them, if we dont say their names their legacy fades into the past. If anyone of us somehow had a name of the week or month named after us it too would be considered a great honouor, thus its very much true that we do honour those gods by remembering their individual days of the week.

We also honour Julius Caesar and Octavian when we use the months July and August.

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cabasilas:

I think that this illustrates the fallacy of seeking "pagan origins" in our current customs. When we refer to Wednesday are we honoring Woden? Or Thor on Thursday? Or, when a bride wears a veil at her wedding is she doing so because she's trying to ward off demons? Or, when Americans use the American dollar bill which has the all seeing eye of Horus on the reverse (and a pyramid to boot!) are they involved in demon worship? Or, when someone puts up a Christmas tree in their home are they honoring ancient pagan deities? No. These things have lost any association to paganism today.

mP

Well one of the primary reasons for reintroducing "Jehovah" was to honour his name out loud instead of substituting "lord". This is official WTS doctrine so when they say the names of other gods they too are being honoured. Those gods are only alive because we remember them, if we dont say their names their legacy fades into the past. If anyone of us somehow had a name of the week or month named after us it too would be considered a great honouor, thus its very much true that we do honour those gods by remembering their individual days of the week.

We also honour Julius Caesar and Octavian when we use the months July and August.

mP

Atlantis:

The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields, sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison, are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.—Pages 355, 371, 373, edition of 1881.

mP:

You do realise the temple in Jerusalem points east for exactly the same reason. St Peters and many if not most major cathedrals also point East.

"The Calendar of Jehovah God"

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