Jehovah's Witnesses- Ever Increasing Religion 1,069,530 American Publishers

by Joker10 37 Replies latest jw friends

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  Joker10

  There are 1,069,530 publishers in America. Notice the growth spurt at the beginning of 2006. The last month of the Service Year shows an increase of 2.3%. This year and/or next year may very well show Jehovah's Witnesses as the fastest growing religion in America once again.

  The Lower 48 States

  Month	2006	2005	Growth	% Increase
  September	1,001,583	990,551	11,032	1.11
  October	997,714	993,476	4,238	0.43
  November	989,543	990,086	-543	-0.05
  December	1,008,905	997,250	11,655	1.17
  January	1,001,150	990,365	10,785	1.09
  February	1,001,469	984,747	16,722	1.70
  March	1,010,868	992,732	18,136	1.83
  April	1,008,987	1,004,310	4,677	0.47
  May	1,011,524	991,486	20,038	2.02
  June	995,639	973,710	21,929	2.25
  July	1,012,670	996,368	16,302	1.64
  August	1,059,325	1,035,802	23,523	2.27
  Average	1,008,281	995,074	13,207	1.33

  Developed countries on the decline? The following chart shows some of the countries with the ever growing number of publishers.

  Developed Countries

  Country	Australia	Britain	Spain	Ireland	Norway	Korea, South	Taiwan	Cyprus	Italy	Austria	Macao	France
  2006 Peak	62,435	129,482	104,617	5,281	10,179	93,230	5,781	1,987	235,685	20,503	156	119,656
  2006	60,692	122,412	100,029	5,056	9,769	92,541	5,664	1,965	233,231	20,328	150	114,439
  2005	60,399	121,166	99,634	4,904	9,659	91,379	5,429	1,944	232,060	20,205	120	113,731
  2004	60,533	120,514	98,922	4,757	9,638	90,282	5,091	1,904	230,880	20,156	107	113,038
  2003	60,510	120,478	97,806	4,666	9,661	89,097	4,753	1,866	229,920	20,148	109	112,308
  2002	59,934	120,801	96,877	4,647	9,504	88,290	4,481	1,831	228,147	20,122	105	110,987

  I was able to obtain the Field Service Reports for September 2006 on some of these countries. And it does not show any negative increases. Most of these countries are showing a positive trend, much like the United States' spurt that began early this year.
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  Finally-Free

  That is merely evidence that JWs, unlike normal people, are too stupid to use birth control. Everyone with a brain knows that most of their "growth" comes from within their own families, and many of them leave the cult upon reaching adulthood.

  How do these "increases" compare to the overall birth rate of each country?

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  Zico

  Could you seriously not find an American religion that's not got more than a 2.3% increase? I'm sure the Pentacostals are about 8% ? I could be wrong though.
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  fullofdoubtnow

  This year and/or next year may very well show Jehovah's Witnesses as the fastest growing religion in America once again.

  The only way that might happen is if they can keep the supply of young and pre teen kids of jws submitting to the blackmail encouragement they are given by their parents and cong elders to get baptised.

  You really do live up to your name. Joker 10.
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  Gopher

  According to this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_to_be_the_fastest_growing_religion other religious persuasions are showing much larger numerical "growth".

  Consider these. (I'm with the first group !!)

  Non-Religious

  • The American Religious Identification Survey gave Non-Religious groups the largest gain in terms of absolute numbers - 14,300,000 (8.4% of the population) to 29,400,000 (14.1% of the population) for the period 1990 to 2001 in the USA. [1] , [8]

  Wicca

  • The American Religious Identification Survey gives an average annual growth of 143% / 11,454 for the period 1990 to 2001 (8,000?134,000 - U.S. data / similar for Canada & Australia) [1] , [8]
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  Nosferatu

  What about Canada, Joker10?
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  jambon1

  Look mate, why dont you take your head out from your own arse and realise that you are indeed clutching at straws yet again.

  I believe that many people are leaving the truth at the moment because they feel depressed, weighed down and generally unhappy. This may not be this case in your little location but it sure as hell is over here and in may other places.

  Not only that but those 'active publishers' are all onto a good thing. Doing route calls, sitting in the car talking and eating donuts. Most 'active publishers' that I know do this brain numbing work simply to keep up appearances. A simple token service to the cong/people/WTS. If they really believed the truth then they would all be out special pioneering instead of building buisinesses and driving mercs and beamers.

  Now phuck off and stop being a bad witness by associating with us bad apostates (JW label).
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  jambon1

  PS - what happened to the lower states in June? Holidays was it?
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  Gill

  I believe it's called 'creative accounting'.

  All those that can't make an hour out in FS can put in 15 mins.

  The others can make up their figures and may be just 'pretend' publishers.

  Either way.......it's pure BS!

  Maybe it's 'theocratic warfare'!!! There are more of us, because our mags say there are more of us!!!!
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  joe_black

  According to all the reports I have seen, the stats show that Islam is the fastest growing religion in America. As I posted in an earlier topic the Jehovahs Witness numbers are very insignificant compared to the Big religions. So I would suggest to the poster to go toot your horn elsewhere, lol.