Jehovah's Witnesses

Syria, neighbors the countries, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea. Muslim population exceeds 86 percent of the people. Today, the ancient language of Aramaic is still the most spoken. Islamic faith is the most dominant religion throughout the region, with Christianity second. The Syrian society revolves around the centralization of not only religion but family. The Constitution states that the President and Republic to protect its homeland. Relations between…

Even though I am 17 years old, I don't have your typical teenage life. I finished high school, I’m currently working on my college courses, I have two jobs and family obligations. I am working on my last two courses, however, due to the extensive work of the assignments, I need to dedicate a lot of my time to school. I spend most weekdays on working on my school assignments. I am in a single parent household and since my sister a full-time student and my mom having a full-time job, I try to…

Since 1945, the word has literally became known as “whole burned” involving a horrible tragedy, the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews, but also other groups including homosexuals, Gypsies, Catholic Priests, Prisoners of War, Russians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Poles by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. The leader of the Nazi party was Adolf Hitler; to him Jews were an inferior race and were like aliens to the German community, Adolf Hitler used the war to cover up the…

if it wouldn't be too much trouble, I'd really would like to get a puppy for Christmas" (Parker and Stone). Other characters come into play when he starts converting people to his faith in the government (starting with two followers of the Jehovah’s witnesses) and going to the DMV to confess his sins where the producers include some slapstick comedy. Allegedly, “once I (Butters) came clean with the government, I no longer had anything to hide. Then I found peace” (Parker and Stone). The way that…

History throughout the world has had many ups and downs. While there were some great triumphs and breakthroughs, there were also very devastating low points. One very common travesty that has happened in many countries is genocide. Genocide, defined by the UN’s Genocide Convention, is the systematic mass murder of an ethnic, religious, or national group based on discriminatory preconceptions. In other words, it is when one group intends to destroy or displace another group of people because of…

of Education passed a law saying that all students were required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day at school and to salute the flag. Many parents argued that their children were not allowed to do this due to their religion, being Jehovah’s Witnesses. The parents of these students took the case to the Supreme Court where it was decided that the students were not required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance because it stated that the United States is one nation “under God” and this…

During the twentieth century, one of the most well-known and devastating events occurred in history. From 1933 to 1945, a mass genocide on the Jewish people took place. This historical event was known as the Holocaust. A group called the Nazis had a belief that the German people were perfect and almighty. They considered the Jewish people to be inferior and required them to be exterminated. Jews were imprisoned in concentration camps and were slaughtered in the gas chambers. What started it al1…

Irenaeus was born in second century Smyrna and was a student of Polycarp who in turn was a student of St. John the Evangelist. Eventually made bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, Irenaeus is considered by some to be the Church's first systematic theologian. He primary opponents were the Gnostics who claimed a greater spiritual knowledge and believed the material world to be evil. As such, they asserted that Christ could not have been fully man. Rather, he either only appeared to be or else controlled…

In September first, 1939, the German Army invaded Poland marking the start of the Second World War: A six-year conflict between two sets of military alliances, the Allied forces and the Axis powers. During this period, the world witnessed an increasing hatred towards Europe’s minorities, including Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and Slavs among others who did not fit into the Nazi superior “Aryan” race. Although the European Theater had been in war for almost two years, The United States did not…

The first time I attended a church was with my mother when I was about 10 years old. A friend of my mom’s was the one who had given us the invitation. If it weren’t for all the terrible things that my mother was forced to go through in those months, she probably would’ve passed up on the offer. I think she went because she had nowhere else to turn and she had nothing to lose. I will never forget the large square room that everyone was gathered in that night. The walls were an old dirty white and…