Do Jehovah Witnesses target people with Mental Health issues to join their non-Christian cult?

[Gwendoline]

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@Alwayreckles93
When you mock the mother of Jesus you mock Yahweh. Have a care and repent. The saints were true Christians who sent an example for us all.
Jehovah’s Witnesses loathe the Catholic Church and have done everything in their power to strip their church of traces of Catholicism. Despite this, their group’s very name contains a Catholic “invention,” the name “Jehovah.”

[TheRealPepperPotts]

Probably, but they go to everyone. I always want to engage with them, but they show up at inconvenient times when I'm in a hurry. I am pretty competent at dealing with people like that, because my tactic is to address emotional and personal angles. Their prepared speeches disintegrate under compassionate and honest inquiry. I am also trained in evangelism, so I know all the tricks and the weak spots to probe. My goal is to destabilize the trainee. The JW pair is always a trainee with a more experienced alumni to help the trainee out if they get into a pickle. If I can prompt enough questions in the mind of the trainee before the JW alumni can react, I may have a chance at helping one person escape the cult. It's my attempt to be the change I wish to see in the world. :D

[TheRealPepperPotts]

@Gwendoline You are Catholic? That's neat, I didn't realize that. :)

[LeatherDame]

I dunno if they target them deliberately, they fast a pretty wide net though and mentally ill people might be more likely to be convinced

[KostasKouvalis]

They don't know if the house they're knocking on has a mentally ill person or not. I can assure you, they target EVERYONE. One of them handed me some scripture while I was at work. But mentally ill people are probably more easily suckered in. My friend's grandma was a little slow and let them into her apartment then could not get rid of them.

That Catholic meme is brilliant, by the way. I'm gonna use that next time.

I'd love to see them try that with a Muslim

https://www.youtube.com/embed/kNCqGUu3ojo

[strateguy632]

Despite the clip was true n funny the jews were specifically a target as specified in mein kampf book, separated jewish family for extermination like rodents.

[Fatherhere901]

I have a true question for real followers of Jehovah. According to your OWN teachings...4400 places are available in Heaven and your religion started in the early 1970s. So, with that in mind, who chooses which person's soul steps out of place for others to join in heaven? What if nobody steps out to give somebody else place among the 4400?

[strateguy632]

Omg, such a misquote. They jw' started watchtower in 1800s. Not 1970. They believe book acts: hundreds of thousands will be in heaven.
The real question to any Christian is how to interpret that finite number.

[overlord337645]

these types of cults play on people who are easily minipulated, weak, or pressured into doing something then once you begin they keep your iq low ussually with diets and stuff like no holidays because remember smart people get ideas and challenge things they are a cult so they dont want that they want you to just play along

[exitseven]

I don't know. I have a cousin who is my age. When he was 20 he joined a cult. He did not really have mental health issues but he was just sort of lost. He was just very suggestable. He was looking for someplace to belong. It really was sort of crazy.

[Bricealan]

My now deceases mother was a good friend with a Jehovah Witness, and I can assure you the woman was a wonderful person

[Gwendoline]

Didn't say she was a bad person

[Bricealan]

You used the term "Target"... and referred to it as a 'non-Christian Cult... Jehovah Witness is not a cult... where did you get that from?

[Gwendoline]

Are Muslims Christian?

[LiamJHayden]

I think they target those who are searching and want exact answers, when there are many questions that are unanswerable, at least on this plane. One can be sincere and wrong. That describes most JW's.

[Anonymous]

They religion is also Christian. They choose naive and gullible people, just like any other religion.

[Gwendoline]

It's about as Christian as Islam.

[Opinion Owner]

It's Christian, as you can see here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses

[Gwendoline]

They identify as Christian, that's not the same.

[Opinion Owner]

It says here: "Jehovah's Witnesses is a Christian denomination"...
They believe their denomination is a restoration of first-century Christianity.
They think that mainstream Christianity departed from true worship over time.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus is "God's only direct creation" - Believing in Jesus clearly makes them Christians.

[Gwendoline]

Muslims believe in jesus. So do Mormons.

[Opinion Owner]

Mormons are Christians too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism

Muslims don't believe that Jesus is "divine", they consider him just a prophet.

[Gwendoline]

They identify as Christian and like the Muslims believe in the bible but like the Muslims they've added to it and believe that the native Americans killed off all the Jews in America and that when they die they will become God's. Mormons believe in multiple God's.

[Opinion Owner]

Mormons believe only in one god, and the "trinity", just like the other Christians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Mormonism

Both Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses believe that Jesus is "son of god" - Muslims don't believe that - That's why Muslims are not Christians.

[Gwendoline]

"Latter Day Saints believe God's children have the potential to live in his presence, continue as families, become gods, create worlds, and have spirit children over which they will govern"

[Opinion Owner]

Every Christian denomination has differences, Catholics are not the same as Orthodox, or Protestants. Orthodox even have a difference in calendar.
But they all have one thing in common - They all believe in Jesus as "the son of god", and they all believe in the "holy trinity".

[Gwendoline]

Christian have a core belief in the bible. They don't add other books or texts. The Muslims believe the bible but they have the Koran as well. The Mormons believe the bible but they have the book of Mormon and 5 other books. The jehovah's have the watchtower.
It's like how Christians are not Jews even though the believe in the old testament

[Opinion Owner]

Book of Mormone is just an addition to the Bible, Mormons believe that it's the "newest testament"... but they still use the Bible in their liturgy (unlike Muslims).

Watchtower is a magazine, not a holy book. There are many church communities who use newspaper as a form of religious propaganda, but they are still Christians, just like Jehovah's.

It's just like the Orthodox have the Patriarch, while Catholics have the Pope - but they are both Christians.

[Gwendoline]

Sorry but the bible doesn't mention becoming God's and ruling over planets, or ancient Jews in America. That's not part of Christianity. That's akin to scientology.
The orthodox, catholics, Armenian Christians, eithiopian Christians, coptics, Syrian Christians and others are the first Christians descended directly from the first Christian evangelists and apostles. The rest are prodestants.

[Opinion Owner]

Of course not, the old testament also doesn't mention most things from the new testament.
The Bible was modified over the centuries, every denomination adds something specific.
They believe in Jesus as the "son of god", and in the "holy trinity", that's the basic belief of all the Christians, not Jews or Muslims.
Yes, Mormons and Jehovah's are Protestants.

[Gwendoline]

No Mormons and jehovahs are completely separate from prodestants.

[Opinion Owner]

They are a form of protestants because they are newer denomination of Christianity.

By the way, you forgot about a very old form of Christianity, which is very different from the Catholic and Orthodox, as well as Protestant Christianity:
Gnostic and dualist Christians (Bogomilism, Catharism, Paulicianism etc).

[Kaneki05]

Every religion does that because they are all cults smh.

Religions most common practice is to "help" people is those who are vurnable, poor or/and health issues.

[strateguy632]

They tArget everyone not singling out "Mental Health issues".

the second picture is a good policy, it avoids the false accusations against kavanau n others.

[OneViewpoint]

I only know that I target Jehovah's Witnesses who show up at my door. You have 10 seconds to get off my property... 9 8 7 6 3 2 1 shoot.

[worldscolide]

Dunno, but the last ones to darken my door step were met with the end of my shot gun and told they had 30 seconds to get off of my property or I would pull the trigger.. Same thing happens to Mormons.

[andreasderjuengere]

Not to my perception.

They rather target unsuspecting people who would like to have a relaxed extended Sunday breakfast.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Don't know, but some of those folk are weird.(I'm a Catholic, and some of us are strange, including Yours Truly !!!)

[Anonymous]

Yes very similar to the Trump motherfucker targeting poor ill educated people to follow him.

[MikeRJ]

I'm not sure about this.

[Bklynbadboy12]

Yep cause that's all it is a cult

[KittygosMeoWW]

Yes….