Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Jehovah's Witnesses vs Evangelical Christians





Jehovah's Witnesses vs Evangelical Christians; Two Types of Christian Extremism 

When people think of Christian Fundamentalism people think mostly of the Christian Right, The Westboro Baptists Church, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson but most don't look at what Jehovah's Witnesses and Evangelical Christians have in common even though they are both extremist in their own ways. 

Jehovah's Witnesses were a religion that was created in the late 1880s by Charles Taze Russell who was a Presbyterian by birth and later Congregationalist before deciding to form his own movement by preaching to people that the modern Church had become corrupt and apostate and he was anointed by God to bring the true worship of God to the people through the study of the Bible. 

Jehovah's Witnesses are known worldwide by their extensive missionary work and preaching and knocking on people's doors to deliver the good news and to baptize people into the kingdom of God and to try to bring the people the message of Jehovah before Jehovah's day of wrath known as Armageddon. 

Jehovah's Witnesses Headquarters is called Bethel based in New York and they answer to the leaders known as the "Governing Body" these men composed a board of 12 people make the doctrine and the rules on how Jehovah's Witnesses are to study, worship and enforce church doctrine. 

There is no freedom of belief or freedom of thought or choice and the moment people question or don't agree with the regulations of the organization, one is excommunicated and are shunned by the congregation, friends and even family. There is no democracy and no say, you have to follow what they tell you to do, there is no free or critical thinking. 

Evangelical Christians have become more far right to the point that they want to influence others through government and by electing leaders that hold extremist or fanatical views of the Bible. Evangelical Christians believe that their religion is under attack by Secularism and the growing number of Agnostic and Atheist people in the country so many Christian Evangelicals have formed coalitions and organizations to try to enforce laws being made to force their view on Biblical Law on others and wanting to bring God and Prayer back to national life. 

What Jehovah's Witnesses and Evangelical Christians have in common is they are both conservative and don't believe that people have the freedom to do what they want or have freedom to question what they are being fed. 

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that Mainstream Christianity is corrupted and apostate and is part of the Whore of Babylon together with the Roman Catholic and that Jesus Christ isn't God and that there is no such thing as the doctrine of the Trinity, their denial of the concept of Hell and Heaven and they believe that they are the only true religion and whomever doesn't become a Jehovah's Witness is condemned to death by the wrath of God in Armageddon. 

Evangelical Christians teach that there is only one way to God and that is through Jesus Christ and without Jesus there is no salvation and the unbeliever is sent to hell for eternity and that Christians have a special right to rule over Non-Christians because they are righteous and Non-Believers are evil and condemned for refusing to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. 

Both sides hate and despise each other and both claim are the true representation of Christianity and both want to have dominion and control over their followers and both are unbinding and uncompromising and both are dangerous in their own way. One is a doomsday cult that wants to massively convert whole the world before the world ends and the latter wants to impose their beliefs and their own interpretation of the Bible on others through government means and union between Church and State.