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Let us take a brief moment to review how the Watchtower feels about the exchange of Wedding Rings!
Beans
Quotes on Wedding Rings (Are they Pagan)?
by Beans 8 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Kenneson
How nice. If wedding rings need not be looked upon as pagan, why are birthdays? Why isn't it left up to an individual to decide whether he wants to celebrate birthdays or not? What connection is there between birthdays and pagan religious practices? What makes a birthday celebration more pagan than an anniversary?
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Golden Girl
Here's some info on anniversaries!
I wasn't allowed to go to my JW In Laws anniversary party because I might have stumbled someone!.Actually..I was sent an invitation..then my Jw sister in law called and said I was uninvited!.It was a very large get together!...Even had other worldly relatives there that used to be JW's but were never baptised!....So that was OK...
But according to that article........What is your opinion?
Snoozy......
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Beans
Golden Girl:
That is increadible, I shall point this out to my JW family! They cannot decide what is right or what is wrong! I guess it depends on a number of things like how old the writing staff is. Thanks for the link!
Beans
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Golden Girl
Beans...thanks again for your site too!..It is really good!.
Snoozy.....
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Beans
Golden Girl:
Thank you very much, but it is not mine it is Quotes site! I`m the VP of Marketing and promotions! Its all good though sister GG!!!
Beans
Canadian Overbeer
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jws
Thanks for the link. That's one thing I often wondered about. JWs have a laundry list of things they don't want you to do because of some vague pagan origin - almost anything involved in any sort of tradition. Even though nobody probably ever thinks of or even has a clue as to the origins of most traditions. For example, how many people know the symbolism of using an evergreen tree as a Christmas tree? If they don't know, then are they guilty of practicing paganism?
I often thought there must be things JWs do approve of that must also have a "pagan" origin. Things that I could argue back to show that they are employing a double-standard.
I thought I'd find an answer in weddings. For the most part, JWs follow tradition with weddings. And when they follow tradition, they are very much in danger of violating their own rules on things to avoid. I suspected the wedding ring might be one such thing.
Although these quotes give the JW point of view, it offers little documentation as to the "pagan" origins, even trying to say nobody knows. The quote of the Catholic article calling them pagan is about as close as it gets.
Does anybody have evidence of such common JW practices to prove they are of pagan origins? Maybe the bride wearing white too? I also thought about the days of the week. Saturday, for instance, comes from the god Saturn, right? Yet Saturday is typically door-knocking day. Hey, think I can get them to stop going door-knocking on Saturdays by telling them that this would honor a false god?
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Beans
It really is strange how every little thing in life is put down on a table analyzed broken down into little parts and then related to THERE views and then you are told what is right and wrong.
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For the record, thanks go to "blondie" for her research which inspired the wedding ring page.