by Joliette 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Being as they are an offshoot of the Adventist religion, I would say they are. They can protest all they want. They just have a new spin on the same old story. Same thing just dressed up in a slightly different package.
I always felt they were jealous of the Catholic Church (which they love to bash). I felt they craved the adulation/worship that the Pope gets and are nothing but social climbers looking to be put on a pedestal.
Bottom line: men craving worship and an easy life.
"I always felt they were jealous of the Catholic Church (which they love to bash). I felt they craved the adulation/worship that the Pope gets and are nothing but social climbers looking to be put on a pedestal. ..."
I totally agree, LongHairGal...
Especially if one looks at the person who REALLY started the Jehovah's Witnesses' hysterical antipathy towards Christianity in general and the Catholic Church in particular... Ol' !NOT! 'da judge' Rutherford...
A blazing alcoholic and womanizer, he probably didn't have a very good attitude towards Christian "morals" from the beginning, and his imprisonment in - 1918, I think?? - REALLY set him off on a lifelong RANT against Christian churches in general and the Catholic Church in particular...
If I remember correctly, he always believed that his imprisonment was the result of behind-the-scenes manipulation and political maneuvering by the Catholic Church and other churches.
Yeah, I can DEFINITELY see him as a sniveling, petty, grudge-holding social climber who craved the adulation of the much-more-powerful Catholic Church...
Zid
It could be argued that their magisterium approach is more Catholic than sola scriptura Protestant :-) -
They are Restorationist Millenialists and a New Religious Movement derived from an Adventist theology - no matter what they say about themselves thats what they are.
