Originally posted by pear
Hi Mr Gordon
Jehovah's Witnesses do not offend Jews by using idols in their worship, nor do they believe in the doctrine of the Trinity. They reject that teaching as pagan and unscriptural. In fact, the Witnesses are no part of Christendom at all! Thus, they do not bear the onus of the Holocaust, much less the bloody history of anti-Semitism.
Of all the religions claiming to be Christian, they alone have followed Jesus’ command at John 17:16 to be “no part of the world.”
You claim that you are not part of Christendom yet you alone have followed Jesus' command at John 17.16?
And to think we pick on wotsup for his clear thinking!
Pear
https://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/israel/tel-aviv-exhibit-jehovahs-witnesses/
Commenting on the importance of hosting such displays in Tel Aviv, Yair Auron, an Israeli historian and professor emeritus at the Open University of Israel, stated: “I feel it is especially important for young people in high school to visit the exhibit, because unfortunately the level of knowledge about Jehovah’s Witnesses is very, very limited. Most Israelis do not know anything about Jehovah’s Witnesses and their story during the Nazi period.”
Mauro Trapanese, a spokesman for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Israel, explains: “We wanted the exhibit to teach not only about the suffering Jehovah’s Witnesses experienced under the Nazi regime but also what was unique to that experience. As an example, we found that many visitors were unaware that, unlike other groups, Jehovah’s Witnesses were given the opportunity to be released from the concentration camps if they disavowed their religion. Highlighting little known but significant facts like this made the exhibit a success.”
“Jehovah’s Witnesses were among those decent people who paid a very high price because they were loyal to their own beliefs and inner conscience,” commented Professor Gideon Greif, a historian who specializes in the history of Auschwitz.
Summing up her visit, Holocaust art historian Dr. Batya Brutin stated: “I think that learning about the experience of Jehovah’s Witnesses during the Nazi era could underscore the kind of values that could help us make this world a better place.”
Although organizers assembled the displays for a onetime exhibition, requests for additional information on the experience of Jehovah’s Witnesses were received from representatives of several academic institutions that attended the event.
