How would you define RELIGION, and why?

by Fernando 77 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • Fernando
    Fernando

    "Judge" Rutherford defined or classified ALL religion as "a snare and a racket" in his books "Religion" and "Enemies".

    After Rutherford's death in 1942, his protégé, Watchtower Vice President, and ACLU darling, Hayden C. Covington, in the early 1950's, for reasons of legal expedience and supremacist aspirations, suddenly converted the Watchtower into a religion.

    This was done alongside one of the most audacious, spurious and longstanding swindles of the US legal system. This involved twisting Philippians 1:7 and misrepresenting the Watchtower's true nature, objectives and activities.

    This meant that it became necessary for the Watchtower to suddenly reclassify and redefine religion (w51 1/15 p. 43 New Legal Booklet Well Named; w51 8/15 p. 511 Questions From Readers; yb75 p. 161 Part 2 "For Gladys Bolton...").

    Two new Watchtower classifications were suddenly created: "true religion" and "false religion".

    Now "true religion" meant "true beliefs" whilst "belief" in ever changing Watchtower doctrine was equated with the one "faith" of scripture.

    All this while the Watchtower increasingly and maliciously truncated, obfuscated and hid the liberating full "Good News" (or unabridged gospel) of scripture, which it lyingly claimed (in court) that it was actually "Defending and Legally Establishing".

    How would you have defined religion before learning TTATT?

    How would you now define religion?

    And why?

  • steve2
    steve2

    Religion: A set of beliefs that demonstrate the need to be consoled about life and death has won out over the need to be rational and skeptical.

  • 20yearfader
    20yearfader

    religion:designed to hold mankind back.belief in invisible creatures that somehow influence daily life,for the weak or those that choose to hide their head in the sand and not deal with reality

  • Ucantnome
    Ucantnome

    Now. set of beliefs involving a god with rituals.

    then. I didn't

  • ThomasCovenant
    ThomasCovenant

    Wishful thinking.

  • NAVYTOWN
    NAVYTOWN

    Religion is a fanciful set of beliefs that are adopted as being The Truth by a large number of people. Very often these beliefs center around an 'infallible' god-man (or woman) and an explanation about 'where we go after death'. Often adherents will fight tooth and claw to defend their beliefs, against all evidence that the beliefs are utter nonsense. Most religions base their knowledge of the universe on mystical ancient stories, rather than scientific information. The moral of this is: Stay away from all religions!!! Think for yourself!!

  • cofty
    cofty

    Organised superstition.

  • Xanthippe
    Xanthippe

    From ancient times religion is the way people have tried to explain reality. Now anachronistic because we use science and reason to understand reality, although not everything is explainable as yet.

  • galaxie
    galaxie

    An entrapment for the gullible, unwary, emotionally vulnerable their families..

    All under the masquerade of sanctuary.

  • wantingtruth
    wantingtruth

    hello,

    apart of what lingvistically "religion" may mean , I would compare "religion" with Jesus way of naming the "adoration of Father"

    He said / John 4:24

    "God is a Spirit. And they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."

    Therefore "religion" is EVERY kind (and ALL kinds) of "worship" or "adoration" which is NOT in spirit and NOT in truth .

    or, all manifestations of "adoration" beyond of what "worship in spirit and in truth" means .

    wt.

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