Jehovah's Witnesses Quotes
Obey human laws that do not conflict with God's laws.
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
Jehovah's Witnesses, Jehovah's Witnesses—Who Are They? What Do They Believe?, 2001
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Niemoller, a World War I U-boat commander and clergyman, was jailed for rejecting the National Socialist ideology and for appealing to German Christians not to embrace the new paganism of Nazism and Fascism.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is a “worldwide Islamic political party.” It is banned as a terrorist, violence provoking institution in most of the Muslim countries and many nations in Europe.
The Judge, a fundamentalist Christian, unilaterally had a large granite monument of the Ten Commandments installed in the Rotunda of the Supreme Court Building. A Federal Judge in deciding a lawsuit ordered him to remove the monument which was held to have been placed there to symbolically uphold the supremacy of the Judeo-Christian tradition in our legal system. Judge Moore appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court which let the removal decision stand. However, the judge still resisted. The other 8 Alabama Supreme Court justices then removed the Chief Justice and ordered the monument removed. Moore who had been selected to office in a “Bible-Belt State,” still blocked the removal forcing a showdown with the Federal Courts and his colleagues in Alabama. Shortly thereafter, both the monument and Judge Moore were removed.
Congress had passed the Edmunds Act prohibiting plural marriage. Taylor, who himself had 7 wives and 35 children, went “underground” and secretly operated the church from exile.
The President did not apparently think that this would be a religious test of office which would be prohibited by the Constitution.
Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The group reports a worldwide membership of approximately 8.7 million adherents involved in evangelism and an annual Memorial attendance of over 17 million. Jehovah's Witnesses are directed by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, a group of elders in Warwick, New York, United States, which establishes all doctrines based on its interpretations of the Bible. They believe that the destruction of the present world system at Armageddon is imminent, and that the establishment of God's kingdom over the earth is the only solution for all problems faced by humanity.
