Why are wedding rings allowed?

Newborn

As far as I know, the wedding ring custom, origins from pagan worshipers so why is that allowed by the WT??? I've never saw an article abt that in their literature.

Isn't that to swallow the camel?

Comments?

/Newborn

Witness 007

The wedding rimg is very Phalic an sexual and I don't know why it's allowed.

faundy

I was always taught that even though it has pagan origins, it serves as a sign to people and a protection.. however much like bollocks that sounds.

Bridesmaids are pagan. As is wedding cake. But JWs are allowed those too. Once again I think it's a case of them picking and choosing what they want.

slimboyfat

Watchtower taboos are pretty random when you stand back and think about it.

It does not matter so much particularly what things are considered taboo, since the purpose is to separate insiders from outsiders.

Mormons avoid coffee, Sikhs don't cut their hair, Scientologists don't use psychiatrists, Jews avoid Pork, and Jehovah's Witnesses don't do birthdays and so on.

I think inconsistencies like this are good - they get people thinking on their own. The wedding ring/bridesmaid thing is what first got me thinking that perhaps the JWs didn't have it all right. The rest is history.

Happy

sacolton

Yes, interesting how one day out of the year ("Christmas") they refuse to acknowledge, but they'll wear their pagan wedding rings and pagan neckties 365 days of the year!

Speaking of Mormons, a friend who is Mormon told his kids (in front of me) that coffee will turn your knees black. Guess what was brewing in our kitchen when their kids came over? Yup, hot fresh coffee. Mmm! Their little boy looked at me as if I had worms coming out my ears and said, "Are your knees black?" I laughed and showed him my knees ... nope. No black knees here. Now, the look he gave his mom afterwards was priceless ... he was completely dumbfounded and it showed in his face and I think he has trust issues with his mom now.

sir82

The wedding rimg is very Phalic

Huh....you may want to see a specialist if yours is shaped like a wedding ring...

Mary

The February 2007 Craptower magazine made a half-assed attempt to address this but they did a piss poor job. On one hand they use the wedding ring to show that even though something might have had pagan origins at one time, it has nothing to do with us today. Yet the tinkling of glasses is still on the list of banned practices with no viable explanation given as to why it's banned. Basically, they demonstrated that they have a double standard that is applicable however they see fit. Forget logic and reasoning-----the Governing Body has spoken: