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Jehovah's Witnesses..

kgail11kgail11 member
in May 2011 Moms
Is anyone on this board knowledgeable about JWs? My husband's bro is a JW - like, hardcore, apparently, because he is now boycotting Thanksgiving dinner. This is sort of bothering all of us, for obvious reasons..  but can anyone school me on why Thanksgiving is evil? ..family awkwardness!!!..
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  • mrbear83mrbear83 member

    The don't celebrate any holidays except anniversaries.

    I don't really know why. I brought it up to a coworker that is a JW, and said that a birthday is just the anniversary of your birth, so why not even those? I think I flustered her because she said she really didn't know why not birthdays, either. 

     

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  • Lisa FrankLisa Frank member

    They believe that all holidays are "pagan."  The only "holiday" they celebrate, is Easter, but they don't call it that. Something about memorializing Jesus' birth. 

    I had a close friend in elementary school that was JW and I remember being outraged on Halloween when her family would lock the house and shut off all the lights :(

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  • kacellekacelle member
    imageLisa Frank:

    They believe that all holidays are "pagan."  The only "holiday" they celebrate, is Easter, but they don't call it that. Something about memorializing Jesus' birth. 

    I had a close friend in elementary school that was JW and I remember being outraged on Halloween when her family would lock the house and shut off all the lights :(

    My family did this, but we weren't JW.  My parents just thought of Halloween as being really evil.  We also didn't celebrate holidays in a religious way; we just celebrated Christmas with Santa and Easter with an egg hunt, etc.  My family is very religious, but my parents believe that setting apart certain days to celebrate Jesus (other than every Sunday) is wrong. 

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    imageLisa Frank:

    They believe that all holidays are "pagan."  The only "holiday" they celebrate, is Easter, but they don't call it that. Something about memorializing Jesus' birth. 

    I had a close friend in elementary school that was JW and I remember being outraged on Halloween when her family would lock the house and shut off all the lights :(

    OMG this was so my childhood friend too!  I specifically remember launching into a tirade at her mother because it was her birthday and I couldn't give her a gift.  I was crushed for her.  So dramatic!

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  • Lisa FrankLisa Frank member
    imagekacelle:
    imageLisa Frank:

    They believe that all holidays are "pagan."  The only "holiday" they celebrate, is Easter, but they don't call it that. Something about memorializing Jesus' birth. 

    I had a close friend in elementary school that was JW and I remember being outraged on Halloween when her family would lock the house and shut off all the lights :(

    My family did this, but we weren't JW.  My parents just thought of Halloween as being really evil.  We also didn't celebrate holidays in a religious way; we just celebrated Christmas with Santa and Easter with an egg hunt, etc.  My family is very religious, but my parents believe that setting apart certain days to celebrate Jesus (other than every Sunday) is wrong. 

    I was just having a convo with some FB friends about this. Is your family Church of Christ by chance?? I just found out that they don't celebrate Christmas as Jesus' birthday. More emphasis is placed on his resurrection, which makes sense to some degree, but I've always celebrated both his birth and his death. 

    And I'm from a religious/politically conservative area and I have co-workers (mostly protestant reformed) that don't allow Halloween into their homes.

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  • Temp38995750004016Temp38995750004016 member
    I remember being annoyed in grade school when the JW kids didn't say the Pledge of Allegiance with us.  I still don't see why it isn't allowed.
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