The JWs just pick and choose among the many thousands of things they can label "pagan" and look the other way for the rest.
The names of the days of the week and the months of the year are of pagan origin.
Many of the ritual events in a wedding are of direct pagan origin, and I'm speaking of events that the JWs continue to engage in. The wedding party for instance was intended to hide the identity of the bride and groom from the "demons." Same with the veil. You'd think the JWs would be in favor of that. The placement of the ring third finger, left is pagan.
Many of the ritual events in funerals also are of direct pagan origin, but again the JWs are up to their necks in them. Tombstones come from the pagan belief that if you did not pile stones on a corpse, the "demons" would come out of the deceased to haunt the village and otherwise cause problems. Tying up the corpse in a shroud served much the same purpose.
How long would you like this post to be? There are literally thousands of things of pagan origin that the JWs continue to practice. Their insistence on not practicing some things has nothing to do with spiritual security, it's got to do with measuring their degree of control over you as an individual.
Who were the pagans? They were merely the country folk in any given territory. As the Catholic Church spread from Rome out into the countryside, it did battle with the beautiful nature cults of the native peoples. If the so called "pagans" did not convert to Catholicism, they were murdered by the church. And thus, it was left to the victors to write the history of those times, of those times of conversion of the country folk to Catholicism.
And the Catholics did what the victors always do: they lied about the nature and character of those country nature religions. If the Catholic Church said they ate babies for breakfast at pagan sunrise ceremonies, who was there to refute them? It doesn't take much imagination to see what the Catholic Church did to the reputation of those beautiful, gentle, nature-oriented religions of the people.
Those "pagan" religions were much more beautiful and, I dare say, much more accurate than was the Catholic Church. For instance, there is no female Godforce in the Christian Church. But in Wicca, there is both a male and a female godforce, and these two forces are combined in The All. The "pagans" worshipped at night and they had fires so they could see, not so they could roast humans alive as the church would have it. They worshipped the changes of the sun and moon in various seasons. They had ceremonies for the spring and fall equinoxes and for the summer and winter solstices. And the Catholics followed right along with parties of their own during these times and called them something else. For instance the spring or vernal equinox is the Christian Easter. And on and on and on like that.
The Jehovah's Witnesses are plainly just full of shit. They're as pagan as the statue-venerating Catholics, but in their own way. See? This could never be a perfect world for me, because in a perfect world those god damn Jehovah's Witnesses would not be in it. Lying Bastards.
