I think the Watchtower fits the bill. And to some degree, many fundamentalists could fall into this category.
Should Jehovah's Witnesses be added to the Wikipedia article on Doomsday Cults?
by jwfacts 30 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Finkelstein
Re: Should Jehovah's Witnesses be added to the Wikipedia article on Doomsday Cults?
Absolutely and justifiably so.
This religious organization has been selling doom in their pieces of literature now for over a century .
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RayPublisher
"They announced that the world had in fact ended in 1914, and if the rest of us hadn't noticed, that was our lookout. It is astonishing in the face of such transparent evasions that this religion has any adherents at all. But religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. The fact that religions can be so shamelessly dishonest, so contemptuous of the intelligence of their adherents, and still flourish does not speak very well for the tough-mindedness of the believers. " Carl Sagan
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Pterist
Absolutely, they have their own, end times pre-millennium intrepation as an article of faith, with consequences of life and death on its acceptance.
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EntirelyPossible
Any religious outfit that worships a god called "Jehovah" are automatically doomsday cults. Because that name is just a conjoining of two Hebrew words.
No, it isn't.
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sabastious
No, it isn't.
It's too large a coincidence to ignore. Ancient liars never accounted for the internet which came like a thief in the night. As Luke Skywalker puts it, "Your overconfidence is your weakness."
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undercover
Yea, it would be accurate to add em, but good luck keeping em in there. Everytime you put JWs in bad light (even if true) on a wiki page, it mysteriously, and quickly, gets revised.
They're Scientologists Light when it comes to that stuff
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sd-7
As Luke Skywalker puts it, "Your overconfidence is your weakness."
"Your faith in your friends is yours."
"It is pointless to resist, my son."
But to answer the question, absolutely. It may seem like an extreme label, but clearly it's a cult, and clearly it's centered around the expectation of an imminent doomsday scenario. Ergo, doomsday cult.
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Newly Enlightened
Entirely Possible- Just get a Strong's Concordance and look on page 32 of the Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary towards the back Item/Line # 1942 & 1943 then go to this link:
http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/is-gods-name-yahweh-or-jehovah
And read where the Name Jehovah came from. IT IS AN INVENTED NAME BY A CATHOLIC MONK IN THE 13TH CENTURY
