Judging Jehovah's Witnesses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Judging Jehovah's Witnesses write by Shawn Francis Peters. This book was released on 2000. Judging Jehovah's Witnesses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While millions of Americans fought the Nazis, liberty was under attack at home with the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses who were intimidated and even imprisoned for refusing to salute the flag or serve in the armed forces. This study explores their defence of their First Amendment rights.
Judging Jehovah's Witnesses
Judging Jehovah's Witnesses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Judging Jehovah's Witnesses write by Shawn Francis Peters. This book was released on 2000-04-11. Judging Jehovah's Witnesses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While millions of Americans were defending liberty against the Nazis, liberty was under vicious attack at home. One of the worst outbreaks of religious persecution in U.S. history occurred during World War II when Jehovah's Witnesses were intimidated, beaten, and even imprisoned for refusing to salute the flag or serve in the armed forces. Determined to claim their First Amendment rights, Jehovah's Witnesses waged a tenacious legal campaign that led to twenty-three Supreme Court rulings between 1938 and 1946. Now Shawn Peters has written the first complete account of the personalities, events, and institutions behind those cases, showing that they were more than vindication for unpopular beliefs-they were also a turning point in the nation's constitutional commitment to individual rights. Peters begins with the story of William Gobitas, a Jehovah's Witness whose children refused to salute the flag at school. He follows this famous case to the Supreme Court, where he captures the intellectual sparring between Justices Frankfurter and Stone over individual liberties; then he describes the aftermath of the Court's ruling against Gobitas, when angry mobs savagely assaulted Jehovah's Witnesses in hundreds of communities across America. Judging Jehovah's Witnesses tells how persecution-much of it directed by members of patriotic organizations like the American Legion-touched the lives of Witnesses of all ages; why the Justice Department and state officials ignored the Witnesses' pleas for relief; and how the ACLU and liberal clergymen finally stepped forward to help them. Drawing on interviews with Witnesses and extensive research in ACLU archives, he examines the strategies that beleaguered Witnesses used to combat discrimination and goes beyond the familiar Supreme Court rulings by analyzing more obscure lower court decisions as well. By vigorously pursuing their cause, the Witnesses helped to inaugurate an era in which individual and minority rights emerged as matters of concern for the Supreme Court and foreshadowed events in the civil rights movement. Like the classics Gideon's Trumpet and Simple Justice, Judging Jehovah's Witnesses vividly narrates a moving human drama while reminding us of the true meaning of our Constitution and the rights it protects.
Judgment Day Must Wait
Judgment Day Must Wait - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Judgment Day Must Wait write by Poul Bregninge. This book was released on 2013. Judgment Day Must Wait available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fear of the apocalypse that never comes! It is what holds a Jehovah's Witness power-bound by the Watch Tower Society in Brooklyn. Armageddon is always just a little way around the corner. Poul Bregninge in this, his second book on the Witnesses, presents a complete history and ideology of the Society and why it keeps a keen focus on the Day of Judgment. He tells of multiple "days of reckoning" that pass uneventfully and how each failure of Christ to reappear is reevaluated by the Society to foretell of yet another apocalypse still to come. It is the fear of that moment that keeps Witnesses firmly in the fold. Judgment Day is the carrot dangled before them. Every American knows the Jehovah's Witnesses, right? Those somber people who appear at our doors, offering literature and the everlasting salvation of our souls? What do we know about them? We see at our door their facades-their Society-devised disguises-directed to convert anyone willing to follow their Witness-ways of believing and living. In this book you will confront the thinking that motivates those beliefs. Poul's book is a comprehensive view of JW history, its upheavals and struggles, and a raw demonstration of the manipulation and cruelty dealt those it charges with expanding its membership. By keeping Judgment Day ever coming, the Watch Tower Society ensures a ready supply of workers to proclaim the ever-coming coming. The author dismantles their main biblical storage battery, Matthew 24, from which the movement takes their many "signs" of the impending end. His reinterpretation of these readings is a virtual bomb beneath the understanding they find in those key biblical texts. Poul Bregninge was born and presently lives in Copenhagen. He was raised a Witness but informally left the movement in 1959. In 1964 he published several letters, articles, and features about the Society that the Witnesses deemed unacceptable. A three-man committee expelled Poul. Two years later he published his first book, "Jehovas Vidner under anklage" (Jehovah's Witnesses Accused) in Danish. This book, "Judgment Day Must Wait, " is a massive reworking (two and one half times its size) of his first book, now propelled by many years of continuing investigation that brings the history to the present in a text edited for the American reader.
Jehovah's Witnesses 1874 to Judgment Day
Jehovah's Witnesses 1874 to Judgment Day - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jehovah's Witnesses 1874 to Judgment Day write by Rasheed BARBEE. This book was released on 2021-10-12. Jehovah's Witnesses 1874 to Judgment Day available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi Regime, 1933-1945
Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi Regime, 1933-1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi Regime, 1933-1945 write by Hans Hesse. This book was released on 2001. Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi Regime, 1933-1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Also visit the Edition Temmen for more information.
