This, in my personal opinion, is by far the most organized/structured religion out there.  It just blew me away.  Generally speaking, they must attend meetings at least 5 hours a week in which they will review strategies and techniques on how to convert non-believers.  They will also cover topics from their weekly newsletter (The Watchtower) (over 22,000,000 prints each issue) that cover belief information and whatnot.

This religion has a headquarters in Brooklyn, which districts, branches, circuits, congregations around the world.  They have a Kingdom Hall where the congregation would meet to discuss their newsletter.

They believe that Jesus is Michael the archangel.  When he came to earth he became Jesus, and then went back to being Michael when he was resurrected. The Holy spirit is actually a form of energy, kind of like electricity.

They do believe in the bible, but have interesting takes on the application of the Bible today.

Its heard that they don’t celebrate birthdays, holidays, etc.  This is because they believe it gives the individual too much credit.  For example: people celebrate birthdays, but that kind of praise is only reserved for Jehovah.

One of the scary beliefs that they practice is the fact that there will only be 144,000 people that get to enter heaven.  Only under 9,000 people that will enter heaven are alive today (out of the 6.69 billion people in the world!!!! Thats nearly 0.0000013 × 10-6 % that will be saved!!!) which kind of puzzles me on why they are witnessing to people…  They believe that the other 135k people are dead right now, and will be resurrected when the time comes.  If you are not one of the 144,000 people– you will just perish, no life after death.

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