Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Religious and Ethnic Diversity
For this assignment I have decided to pick for religion Jehovah Witness and for race I picked Blacks. I pick Jehovah witness because there are many people that think of them as a bother, a cult more than a religion. I know there have to be more to that religion that all the negative things that I continue to hear. I picked blacks as my race because I feel that is one race that I can best identify with because have gone through some of the same things over the years. Many times people say negative thing about the blacks that I found is untrue and may have been said only because they are often misunderstood.
Jehovah Witness unlike other religions they don’t celebrate Christmas, Birthdays, and Easter. The reason for them not celebrating them is because they are considered a pagan holiday, meaning that they are a man made holiday. They value and celebrate weddings, anniversaries, and when Christ was resurrected. The Jehovah witness believes in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and that is who they worship and teach as well. They go by only what the word in the bible said which means that if it is not the written word they don’t do it or celebrate it, teach it, or practice it.
Jehovah Witness have had to deal with many negative things said about them such as that they are a cult because of what they don’t celebrate but if you look in the bible it never said to celebrate birthdays, or gives an actual date of when Christ was born, or to celebrate Easter. When the Jehovah Witness go out to spread the word by giving there literature called The Watchtower or Awake by going door to door. There have been many times people have cursed them, slammed doors on them, let their dogs out on them, and many other things. In many communities they have asked to build a bigger church but have been denied due to them being Jehovah Witness or have had communities try to get them out of the community all together.
For this assignment I have decided to pick for religion Jehovah Witness and for race I picked Blacks. I pick Jehovah witness because there are many people that think of them as a bother, a cult more than a religion. I know there have to be more to that religion that all the negative things that I continue to hear. I picked blacks as my race because I feel that is one race that I can best identify with because have gone through some of the same things over the years. Many times people say negative thing about the blacks that I found is untrue and may have been said only because they are often misunderstood.
Jehovah Witness unlike other religions they don’t celebrate Christmas, Birthdays, and Easter. The reason for them not celebrating them is because they are considered a pagan holiday, meaning that they are a man made holiday. They value and celebrate weddings, anniversaries, and when Christ was resurrected. The Jehovah witness believes in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and that is who they worship and teach as well. They go by only what the word in the bible said which means that if it is not the written word they don’t do it or celebrate it, teach it, or practice it.
Jehovah Witness have had to deal with many negative things said about them such as that they are a cult because of what they don’t celebrate but if you look in the bible it never said to celebrate birthdays, or gives an actual date of when Christ was born, or to celebrate Easter. When the Jehovah Witness go out to spread the word by giving there literature called The Watchtower or Awake by going door to door. There have been many times people have cursed them, slammed doors on them, let their dogs out on them, and many other things. In many communities they have asked to build a bigger church but have been denied due to them being Jehovah Witness or have had communities try to get them out of the community all together.
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