Are JW's Fundamentalist Christians

by What is Truth? 11 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  What is Truth?

  Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian

  
  10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
  
  9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
  
  8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
  
  7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!
  
  6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
  
  5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
  
  4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."

  
  3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.
  
  2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
  
  1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.

  Taken from http://www.evilbible.com/Top_Ten_List.htm

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  Phizzy

  I don't think they fit all the above criteria obviously, but they arre pretty Fundy, most of the above fit pretty well.

  What I have found really amusing since I left is the way they dismiss the LDS/Mormon nonsense with an airy wave of theor hand, and yet their basis or foundation is Russell segueing in to Rutherford, which is just as ridiculous.

  Fundy or not, the WT/JW's are a High Control , Mind Control Group, and need to be avoided, or escaped from, deprending upon yoiur situation.
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  done4good

  Agree with Phizzy, that not every detail in the list matches perfectly, but the concepts fit well.

  The WT is most definately fundamentalist in the broader sense of the term in modern usage, since fundamentalism is mostly defined as a strict adherence to beliefs, dispite modern understanding of science, history, etc.

  In the more strict sense, Christian Fundamentalism is a very specific American brand of Protestant Christiology that was developed during the 19th century in response to Darwin, Paine, and others that were considered to be undermining traditional Christian beliefs. The WT is somewhat of a hybrid at best when considered in comparison to the strict definition of the term.

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  Laika

  They're a fundamentalist something alright, maybe not christian?
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  Vidiot

  If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, odds are it's a duck.
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  kurtbethel

  Fundamentalist Watchtowerites.

  If you want to make it personal, they are Morrisites, Splaneites, or best of all, Lettites. Sounds Biblical.
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  OUTLAW

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  People who follow Jesus = Christians..

  People who follow the WatchTower = WatchTards..

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  never a jw

  people speaking in tongues is not much different from the FDS calling themselves the mouth piece of J. or his channel of communication. or claiming that God is the editor of the WT, or that the preaching work and the name JW's is proof that they are the chosen ones.
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  Disillusioned JW

  done4good, I thought Christian Fundamentalism, at least officially (in the sense of when the name was adopted) came into existence in the early 20th century. I say that because it was in the years 1910-1915 that the series of essays called The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth (generally referred to simply as The Fundamentals) were published to refute theological modernism - and apparently even the teachings of Charles Taze Russell (whose sect in the early days was often called "Millennial Dawn", due to the that being the original name of his series of books that were later named Studies in the Scriptures). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fundamentals says "According to its foreword, the publication was designed to be "a new statement of the fundamentals of Christianity."[1] However, its contents reflect a concern with certain theological innovations related to liberal Christianity, especially biblical higher criticism. It is widely considered to be the foundation of modern Christian fundamentalism.

  The project was conceived in 1909 by California businessman Lyman Stewart, the founder of Union Oil and a devout Presbyterian and dispensationalist.

  ... The volumes defended orthodox Protestant beliefs and attacked higher criticism, liberal theology, Romanism, socialism, modernism, atheism, Christian Science, Mormonism, Millennial Dawn (whose members were sometimes known as Russellites, but which later split into another group, adopting the name Jehovah's Witnesses), spiritualism, and evolutionism. "
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  Disillusioned JW

  I think of the JWs as being semi-fundamentalists. The WT literature spiritualizes many Bible verses (especially prophecies from the Hebrew Scriptures) that were intended (in my opinion) to be interpreted mostly literally. In contrast, Christian fundamentalists are known for interpreting scripture literally.