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[[File:Jehovah's Witnesses.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|An adherent of the Jehovah's Witnesses religion. Jehovah's Witnesses are well known for their door-to-door proselytizing.]]

[[File:Jehovah's Witnesses.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|An adherent of the Jehovah's Witnesses religion. Jehovah's Witnesses are well known for their door-to-door proselytizing.]]

'''Jehovah's Witnesses''' is a [[Christian]] religious organization headquartered in the [[United States]]. The organization uses several legal corporations worldwide, publishing literature and performing other operational and administrative functions that represent the interests of the religious organization. "The Society" has been used as a collective term for these corporations. The literature of Jehovah's Witnesses has also referred to the religion generally as the "Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses." The oldest and most prominent of their corporation is the "Watch Tower Society."  Prominent Jehovah's Witnesses have included the rock star [[Prince (musician)|formerly known as Prince]] and the women's tennis star [[Serena Williams]]. The Jehovah's Witnesses Bible translates [[John, Chapter 1|John 1:1]] with an "a" and lowercase "g" at the end: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.”<ref>https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/bible-verses/john-1-1/</ref>

'''Jehovah's Witnesses''' is a [[Christian]] religious organization headquartered in the [[United States]]. The organization uses several legal corporations worldwide, publishing literature and performing other operational and administrative functions that represent the interests of the religious organization. "The Society" has been used as a collective term for these corporations. The literature of Jehovah's Witnesses has also referred to the religion generally as the "Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses." The oldest and most prominent of their corporation is the "Watch Tower Society."  '''''Prominent Jehovah's Witnesses have included the rock star [[Prince (musician)|formerly known as Prince]] and the women's tennis star [[Serena Williams]]'''''. The Jehovah's Witnesses Bible translates [[John, Chapter 1|John 1:1]] with an "a" and lowercase "g" at the end: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.”<ref>https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/bible-verses/john-1-1/</ref>

Part of the religious beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses is not to vote in elections or otherwise participate in politics; not to serve in the military; and not to salute the [[Flag]]. During [[World War II]], an estimated 4,400 [[American]] Jehovah's Witnesses were imprisoned because they asserted conscientious objection to being drafted for the war.<ref>https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/conscientious-objectors-civilian-public-service</ref>

Part of the religious beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses is not to vote in elections or otherwise participate in politics; not to serve in the military; and not to salute the [[Flag]]. During [[World War II]], an estimated 4,400 [[American]] Jehovah's Witnesses were imprisoned because they asserted conscientious objection to being drafted for the war.<ref>https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/conscientious-objectors-civilian-public-service</ref>

Jehovah's Witnesses have maintained a distinction between their corporations and their religious organizations including, but not limited to:

Jehovah's Witnesses have maintained a distinction between their corporations and their religious organizations including but not limited to:

* Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

* Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

The Jehovah's Witnesses was founded in the United States in the 1870s by Charles Taze Russell of Pittsburgh. A small group of non-conformist Christian Adventists who professed loyalty only to Jehovah, they refused to swear allegiance to any government or to serve in the army of any nation. They believed that after the battle of Armageddon they would be the elect in a thousand-year period of heavenly peace.  

The Jehovah's Witnesses was founded in the United States in the 1870s by Charles Taze Russell of Pittsburgh. A small group of non-conformist Christian Adventists who professed loyalty only to Jehovah, they refused to swear allegiance to any government or to serve in the army of any nation. They believed that after the battle of Armageddon they would be the elect in a thousand-year period of heavenly peace.  

They were disliked for their opposition to the First World War, their door-to-door proselytizing, their disdain toward government, their early support of the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and their loud criticism of other Religions' hypocrisy. Some of these criticisms had to do with mainstream Christendoms involvement in politics and their support of war efforts across the globe making them blood-guilty. They put forth the Bible's teaching that true Christians would not kill their own (Spiritual) brothers, (Such as Christians, of any Denomination killing Christians, of the same or other Denominations) and that such actions showed an absence of true brotherhood on the part of these Religions (Loyalty to nation rather than God).

They were disliked for their opposition to the First World War, their door-to-door proselytizing, their disdain toward government, their early support of the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and their loud criticism of other Religions' hypocrisy. Some of these criticisms had to do with mainstream Christianity's involvement in politics and their support of war efforts across the globe, making them blood-guilty. They put forth the Bible's teaching that true Christians would not kill their own (Spiritual) brothers (such as Christians, of any Denomination killing Christians, of the same or other Denominations), and that such actions showed an absence of true brotherhood on the part of these Religions (Loyalty to nation rather than God).

==Theology==

==Theology==