by slimboyfat 11 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
I notice the latest Yearbook was making a big think about JWs being more populous than the country of Switzerland. JWs have overtaken a number of small countries in recent years, such as Norway, Denmark, Israel, El Salvador, Finland, Georgia, Hong Kong and New Zealand.
They will be overtaking places like Austria, Portugal, Belgium and Greece next.
If you count memorial attenders then they are already bigger than medium sized countries like Chile.
Yeah and there are more Mormons than the population of Uzbekistan.
There are more Catholics than the population of Peru.
There are more left-handed nose-pickers than the population of Toronto.
Not sure what the point of the OP is.
´Taking over? In what way?
Yeah, Hitler took over some of these countries as well. He must have had God´s blessing also.
The point is that JWs are obsessed with numbers and believe that this is all a sign of the last days, God's approval and blessing, and the their rich spiritual heritage.
There are over 7 billion people in the world,
7,123,852,538 in 2013 census.
There are 20 million people living in Beijing,
one city in China.
There are over 9 million people living in
Los Angeles County California 9,962,789 in 2013
The world population growth is over 34 million
annually worldwide.
There are over 850 million Buddists and Buddism
is seeing a 79% increase in many countries.
Pentacostals are the fastest growing religion in Christianity.
There are over 2 billion Christians and 1 billion Muslims worldwide.
Jehovah's Witnesses are claiming 7 million members
which is less than 1% of the world's population and
less than the population of Los Angeles County.
There are over 8 million people in New York City
and that does not include the over 1 million
in the Bronx, 2 million in Brooklyn and 1.5 in Manhattan
and 2,230,722 in Queens.
JW numbers are insignificant.
There are over 17 million Seventh Day Adventists and they
run schools, hospitals, and universities.
Adventists are growing at 2.5% in North America.
There are 46 million Baptists.
There are over 15 million Jews worldwide.
Austria- Roman Catholic 73.6 % Protestant 4.7%
Muslim 4.2 % "Other" = 3.5% ( includes JW's)
USA populaton 315,091,138 million
JW's in USA = 1.2 million or 0.38 % (thats point 38)
in other words they would have to almost double or
TRIPLE their numbers to be 1%. in the USA.
In Austria they would have to be 25 times more
than they are now to equal Catholics.
If by some chance a country became 74% jw, like austria is 74% catholic, i wonder what that country would be like. I have never haerd that austria is worse than any other country.
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Jehovah's Witnesses are claiming 7 million members which is less than 1% of the world's population.
Actually 7,000,000,000 x 0.01 = 70,000,000. 70 million would be 1% of the world population.
7 million is actually only 1/10 of 1%.
Dubs ain't shit, man.
Pfft. Imagine a countrly like Switzerland populated almost entirely by undereducated residents. I know lots of JWs that would neither hire nor work for other JWs.
What kind of a country would JWs produce? The way WT is selling off Brooklyn real estate and foreign branches, the "WT Switzerland" would be slowly selling their land to Germany. And the rate that I've seen JW kids leave the religion and get demonized for getting "higher education", only to be replaced by new "Bible students" with mental and emotional problems, I'm sure "WT Switzerland" would see a continuous "brain drain" and wouldn't be able to prove any education higher than the kids reading "My Book of Bible Stories". And judging by the contents of the elders manual, "JW Switzerland" would find themselves criticized by their neighbors for their crappy laws that let pedophiles run free if they "act repentant".
Good points, Billy.
This made me think of an observation I made while still in. The new ones are all very vulnerable people. Most of them had mental or physical problems. We didn't see any college professors, doctors, lawyers, etc. coming in, even though our hall was located in a highly educated urban community with a big ten school right in the territory.
