Religious and Ethnic Groups
Schquoia Lawrence
Eth/125 Cultural Diversity
April 12, 2014
Kathleen Gray
Religious and Ethnic Groups
This selection consists of Hispanics who follow the Jehovah’s Witness religion. Hispanics since migrating to America have discovered a religion known as Jehovah’s Witness. Jehovah’s Witness are one of the religions uncommon to Mexico or any of the other prominent Hispanic countries. The Jehovah’s Witness founder name was Charles Taze Russell who was born in 1852. Upon Russell’s eighteenth birthday he began many bible classes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Seeking to gain attention for his deviant doctrine, he would soon co-published The Herald of the Morning magazine with founder N. H. Barbour. The publication was renamed in 1884 once Russell took control of the publication, and renamed the magazine The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom, and founded Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society. This was renamed to the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. The publication currently publishes from Brooklyn, New York 100,000 books and 800,000 copies for two of their magazines daily.
Jehovah witnesses are Christians who believe that the bible is God’s word and that Jesus is their savior. They believe in one supreme God. By supreme God I mean a spirit that has a body, but not a human body. Jesus is believed to be the Lord and Savior, but like Christians believe that Jesus is a part of God, Jehovah witnesses do not. They also do not believe in the trinity (the father, son and Holy Spirit), in which the Catholics do believe in the trinity. Because Jehovah witnesses do not believe that Jesus is god, and since they do not worship false gods, they pray to god rather than Jesus. They also believe that all other religions are false. They believe that all governments will be destroyed, as a result they do not vote, or practice anything patriotic. They do not celebrate any holidays, or birthdays. They very rarely celebrate...