J Jehovah Witnesses, if you are the only true religion then why do you n ot help when disasters happen?

Question

Mormons, Catholics and many Protestants have large networks of aid when disaster strikes (they also help the homeless and hungry) and I know you guys may help in some ways(possibly but never seen it with my own eyes) so what do you guys do to help or do you help?

Answer 1

The amount of charity work performed or not performed by Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, Atheists, etc...



has zero bearing on whether or not their claims are true. The proof is in the evidence.



Whose god actually shows up in the real world consistent with the claims of its followers?

Jehovah sure doesn't.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses#Failed_predictions



EDIT:

"Often our brothers and sisters who have lost loved ones and homes, go around sharing the wonderful hope we all have and giving answers to: why is this happening? Is it God's Doing etc? In fact, a fantastic opportunity to share the wonderful hope."



SHAME ON YOU!



It's a fantastic opportunity to have access to a whole lot of extremely poor, traumatized, emotionally vulnerable people who are more likely to uncritically accept ANYTHING that sounds even slightly positive and hopeful whether or not it's actually true; because they just watched their entire family get pulverized when their house collapsed in an earthquake, they haven't had anything to eat or clean water to drink for a few days, and may or may not be injured physically and/or mentally from all the stumbling through the ruins of their community surrounded by the rapidly-decomposing corpses of their families, friends, and neighbors.



You're not helping them because they're fellow human beings who are suffering horribly and it's the right thing to do, You're not helping them because you'd want somebody to do the same for you NO MATTER WHAT you believed or didn't believe.



You're helping them because it's a "fantastic opportunity" to make more Jehovah Witnesses.



Shame on you and everybody else who takes advantage of human pain for their own ends.

Answer 2

The only ignorance that abounds here, is from Jehovah Witnesses.



Has anybody ever wondered why with so much need, and hunger, and homelessness in this country and world, the Jehovah Witnesses need to wait years for a disaster to happen to be able to show a shred of humanitarian relief? Really, have you really wondered why?



Are the rank and file JWs that blind? Isn't it obvious that the Watchtower has zero cost in these disaster rebuilding operations?

They get local teams to rebuild homes for the "brothers" using FREE labor. Cost for the organization? ZERO.



Then the materials. Yes the society buys them, but at the end of the construction, "brother thankful" is encouraged to donate the insurance money to the society. Cost for the society? ZERO. Or better yet, PROFIT.



Any efforts that individual Witnesses do, SHOULD NOT BE COUNTED. The Org uses these in the yearbooks to boast, but in reality these are INDIVIDUAL efforts, not an corporate effort.



If the Watchtower society, REALLY wanted to help people there is plenty of people to help right now. They don't need to wait for the next natural disaster, just do like other religious organization and start helping today.

Answer 3

We always help when it comes to natural disasters etc.



For example, when the world was shaken by the Haitian earthquake, Jehovah's witnesses in many countries formed a disaster team and came with supplies to help people. They didn't just help their fellow witnesses, they helped as many people they could including those of other faiths.

As well as this, they also shared the bible's message - the hope for mankind - telling others how one day, there won't be these things we all suffer from today.



We have a magazine out showing our efforts in regards to the Haitian earthquake and then what happened in Japan and also when there have been hurricanes in America i believe.



We also help our fellow brothers and sisters - if that means providing food, we will provide it. Same with clothes, shelter etc.

Answer 4

Excuse me but we most certainly DO help!



In fact often Jehovah's Witnesses are the FIRST on the ground at disasters. All our kingdom halls officially double as disaster relief centers for striken communities and because of their solid construction are often the only buildings left standing. We are also there long after others have left, helping rebuild houses and communities. We have a very extensive worldwide re-construction program that has rebuilt literally thousands of homes destroyed or damaged by disasters FREE of charge.



You have been ill informed if you believe othewise and really should apologise now to the JEHOVAH'S WITNESS men and women that volonteer their time and resources to helping others in times of need.

Answer 5

Ignorance abounds here.



We DO help out. Just as a person first helps his own family in need, and then extends help to those outside his family, we do likewise in the wake of natural disasters.



“Really, then, as long as we have time favorable for it, let us work what is good toward all, but especially toward those related to us in the faith.” (Galatians 6:10)



I have been on the receiving side of this as well as on the giving side. I survived Hurricane Ivan and got help from my brothers and sisters. (2004) Also was able to help after Katrina. (2005) There have been others, but those are the most recent major ones.



When Ivan hit, we beat the American Red Cross locally in setting up and beginning to render aid. Our local base was a Kingdom Hall in Pensacola, Florida. (I live in south Alabama, about 30 miles from there.) By coincidence, the Red Cross set up across the street.



Although it was never publicized, at that base we were feeding the workers breakfast before they would go out to begin their work, and the Red Cross was welcomed there also, and we fed THEM while they were setting up their aid center.



Their are many local reports of the brothers in different localities helping out the non-JWs in various localities, but it always seems to get swept under the rug.



We do not care - we are there to help, not to gain favor and publicity! (Matthew 6:3, 4)

Answer 6

Wow I am tripping over my own shock here!



How on earth do you know they are mormons, catholics etc helping out? I take it, you have time to ask them when you perhaps are either suffering or helping out yourself?!



The reason why we are not mentioned ever when disasters happen, is because we go quietly about it.



A good friend and spiritual sister's husband is not only a doctor, but he was on the scene when Haiti was struck! I have proof as well because in our year book, he is seen helping out with our brothers and sisters!!



You know if you were to accept our magazines, you would read for yourself that we are usually the first ones the scene of disaster and many who see us, compliment us on our organised manner and often, when other faiths can't get past the heavy security, we can and that is because we are not politically minded!



Also, although we are there to help our spiritual brothers and sisters, I can assure you, that anyone who is in need of help, we extend it to them too and i know this, because they have said so ie it is amazing because I used to persecute them and here they are, actually willing to help me and what results? A study because we are proving ourselves unbiased!



What our goal is in helping out in disaster time is to give spiritual food as well as physical. Often our brothers and sisters who have lost loved ones and homes, go around sharing the wonderful hope we all have and giving answers to: why is this happening? Is it God's Doing etc? In fact, a fantastic opportunity to share the wonderful hope.



I must add: I say the royal "we" because I have not had the chance to help out.

Answer 7

I am not a Jehovah's Witness but I do not see the relevance of the institutional church serving in community and the truthfulness of a religion. Jesus taught how individuals should behave, not an institution.



I do not see any bible scriptures that show how the early Christian church served in the community. In fact, they lived communally (see Acts 4:32 thru Acts 5:10).



Therefore, in the narrowly minded words of politically correct mainstream religions, churches serving the community is "unbiblical".

Answer 8

Let's see if I have this straight: If we do not publish publicity pictures of us doing such things in the comic books you read---then it did not happen?



I hate to break this news to you, but the entire rest of the world does not operate that way. Especially for true Christians, we live by the words of Jesus in the same chapter before giving us the Model Prayer. At Matthew 6:1-8, he goes through several things the hypocritical clergy in his day were doing to call attention to themselves in front on people. Jesus warned us not to do that. The only one we need to allow to see what we do is Jehovah. We are not going to hide it either as something to be ashamed of. Twice Jesus pointed out those clergy you are familiar with were "receiving their reward in full." They would get none from Jehovah God.



As Jehovah's people, we love our fellow humans. "So let us not give up in doing what is fine,...... 10 Really, then, as long as we have time favorable for it, let us work what is good toward all, but especially toward those related to [us] in the faith." (Gal. 6:9-10) Otherwise we would never go out in the public ministry seeking to help all sorts of people. All of us would enjoy putting our feet up, taking more naps or fishing. We do know this is a once in a planet's historical work, never to be repeated.



We alone are doing God's will by preaching, teaching this warning message of God's Kingdom about to rule Earth---though we would not turn down help. Don't worry. We will not hold our breath.



We are also alone in study of the Bible adequately enough to answer questions the public asks from the Bible. We do never claim "I'm a pastor." and then completely misinterpret the scriptures.

But as 2 Timothy 2:15 orders, "Do your utmost to present yourself approved to God, a workman with nothing to be ashamed of, handling the word of the truth aright. "

Answer 9

Reactions of the Press

Even the media noted how well the Witnesses were organized. The Savannah Evening Press carried the headline “Jehovah’s Witnesses Find They Are Welcome in South Florida,” and The Miami Herald declared: “Witnesses Care for Their Own—and Others.” It stated: “No one in Homestead is slamming doors on the Jehovah’s Witnesses this week—even if they still have doors to slam. About 3,000 Witness volunteers from across the country have converged on the disaster area, first to help their own, then to help others. . . . Any military organization might envy the Witnesses’ precision, discipline and efficiency.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z37-QwEC24

Answer 10

The Tower gets all of the money and does not share it with the widows and orphans as required by Christ



you will never see a soup kitchen sponsored by the WBS



You will never see a homeless shelter sponsored by the WB$



You will never see a Benevolence fund sponsored by the WB$



The leaders of the JW"S are buying up real estate in NYC at a rate that proves that they personally believe that this system will be around for a long time....YET.....They tell the Followers that 'Armageddon is any day now" and NOT to invest in this world....HYPOCRITES

Answer 11

What makes you think we don't ?



Remember we obey the bible , not like others that claim to be Christian.



Matthew 6:1-4 NIV



6 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.



2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Answer 12

Why would anybody expect the Watchtower to help the poor? They don't even help their own.They expect thousands of their members to spend their entire life peddling their literature as pioneers, generating revenue for them, while only working part-time and barely making it.

But curiously, they have no social programs to help these when they get old. It's more like " oh you are too old to be a pioneer?, well then see ya, go ask the wicked government for help, while we enjoy millions you helped generate"

Answer 13

Jehovah's Witnesses

- Disaster Relief: Contributions to the Community

http://jw-media.org/aboutjw/article44.htm#relief



Earthquake and tsunami in Japan

http://www.jw-media.org/jpn/20110316.htm

http://www.jw-media.org/jpn/20110325.htm



Earthquake in Haiti

http://www.jw-media.org/hti/20100114.htm

http://www.jw-media.org/hti/20100118.htm

http://www.jw-media.org/hti/20100128.htm



This article is on our website specifically for the media, who for the most part ignore it.



There are six *examples* of what Jehovah's Witnesses do in time of need,



both for other J'W's and others.



That doesn't make what it shares any less fact.

Answer 14

The Mormons help with disasters too by the way as well as the SDAs. So guess many of them will be in heaven in sptie of the false prophets influencing their religions. Can't say why the JWs don't help.

Answer 15

I am not a Jehovah's Witnesses, but I think it is because they believe that they are commissioned not to aid others in any way other than to provide them with the [their] interpretation of the Holy Word of God . . . You know kind of like; 'man cannot live by bread alone.'



Hence the 'free' Watch Towers.



Be Blessed:-D

Answer 16

You have no evidence that we don't.



We don't leave when the TV lights go off.

Answer 17

because they are selfish and cheap even to each other