(June 6, 2015 at 5:34 pm)Rhythm Wrote: No, but they -feel- like monotheists, to hear them tell it. It;s one of those hot button things that can get them off your doorstep in a hurry (as we've seen). JW's, btw, effectively prey (no, not pray) on catholics falling out of the faith. That's their bread and butter both geographically and demographically. You might find that their apologetics often take the form of "an argument against catholicism". They have their reasons (some well argued, granted). They don't often realize that it is the -disinterest- of catholics (particularly young catholics) in the catechism, and not -the lack of scriptural justification- that leads to a situation whereby those tactics can be effective. So they keep doing what works, picking off the people who are weakest in their knowledge of the faith - even though they are a very unique -non monotheistic (though not overtly polytheistic)- offshoot of christendom and would not, thusly, seem to have any further credibility to those monotheistic christians they ardently desire to convert.
That christians can be and often are hapless rubes ought to go without saying, but this relationship really drives that point home.
*I can give you the polytheistic rationalizations..but they're all convoluted, meandering...and won't change your mind, btw. In a nutshell, JW's believe that Jehovah God is the only god -worthy of worship-....that Jehovah God is the most powerful of the gods, not that Jehovah is the only god which exists. Simple enough?
Well, I've got half dozen books on JW's on the shelf next to my small collection books on Mormonism, masonry, Eastern Orthodoxy, and atheism, etc. Despite the protestations of some here to the contrary, I do try to do a bit of homework before posting.
And, yes, JW's do have a special animus towards Catholicism...but that's nothing new. The darkness hates the light. "It burns us, precious."
JW's say that Jesus was really Michael the Archangel...thus, a created being. But unless I missed something really big in my reading and conversations with JW's, I never understood them to hold that they acknowledge more than one God.
Now, Mormons do EXACTLY what you have suggested...is it possible you have these two groups confused?
