Jehovah's Witnesses

my family which is Jewish. Italy also consists of 10 major religions as stated at “religioninitaly.com”, “Other religious groups in Italy include over 1m Muslims, 700,000 Eastern Orthodox Christians, 550,000 evangelical Protestants, 235,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses, 45,000 Jews, and the Waldensian Evangelical Church and other small groups […].” Like America, sports are a big part of the Italian heritage. The most popular sport in Italy by far is soccer. Italy’s passion for soccer is a burning fire…

The Holocaust and Bosnian Genocides: a comparison Genocide: from the Greek word “Genos” meaning race, and English “-cide” denoting the act of killing. The systematic mass destruction of a race, of a culture, of a religion, of ideas and ideologies, of precious human life; and they have been going on for a long time. Though most people typically don’t ever hear about it until we talk about the Holocaust, it was not the first one, nor the last. Even after one of the most prolific mass killings of…

practices religion such as frequency that one attends services has no significant correlation to social class. Interestingly religious groups can be ranked by median annual household income. People of the Jewish faith hold the highest ranking while Jehovah’s Witnesses occupy the lowest ranking of all major religions having a median income of around $24,000. Income does ultimately affect social class, therefore an individual’s religions denomination and social class are related. When looking at…

Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the disabled were all victims of the Holocaust, but today it is most remembered for its effect on the Jewish community. Jews were deprived of their rights, terrorized in anti-Jewish riots, forced into ghettos, had their land taken away…

master race and that all should follow his religious beliefs(Blath13). Because of these acts and his controlling ways, more than six millions Jews, seven million Soviet civilians, 250,000 people with disabilities, 220,000 Gypsies, and 2,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses were murdered because they believed differently ( Holocaust and Nazi…

after working however many hours they were sentenced to. When the Nuremberg Laws institutionalizing racial discrimination had been passed by Germany’s government in 1935, many new groups were sent to Dachau. The new prisoners were composed of Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Jewish emigrants, political figures, and Allie soldiers. Medical experiments (subjecting prisoners to; ice baths to induce hypothermia, pressure chambers, transplants while the prisoner is awake, and saltwater water diets)…

As one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, I spend between 10 and 50 hours a month helping people in the community understand the Bible. Usually, between four and seven of us work together at a time. After spending three or more hours with my friends, I usually have learned more about…

Christianity began as a sect or subgroup of Judaism during the first century Common Era before it developed into its own separate religion “That is to say, as Christians continue to delve into their own historic past in their ongoing journey to enrich their own present and future, especially liturgically, they cannot do so without addressing the historical matrix—first-century Judaism— out of which they sprang” (Jacobs, 2012, p. 518). It is considered to be a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.…

vaccinations are a gift from God. Some may claim the Catholic Church has objections but this is another misconception. The Catholic Church opposes fetal cell research that has been used to develop vaccinations not the vaccinations themselves. Jehovah’s Witnesses famously cannot have blood transfusions because they view one of the commandments of the Bible as meaning to abstain from blood. But non of this really matters in the vaccine debate because when an individual files a religious exemption…

In the Cantwell v. Connecticut case, Newton Cantwell and his two sons, Jesse and Russell, were convicted of two crimes that breached the Connecticut state law. The Cantwells were members of the Jehovah’s witnesses and claimed to be ordained ministers, due to their religious practices they believed that it was their duty to carry their messages to others. In order to spread their message, they carried along religious materials such as pamphlets, records, books, and also had a record player that…