Easter and birthdays

I remember reading a string of comments from an article someone posted on an ex-JW forum where a JW was bashing a co-worker for celebrating Easter. Another said that not every non-Jehovah's Witness does those things.  Since when did celebrating Easter make you an immoral person? I was raised as a JW and did not get to celebrate holidays. I love them now. They don't have any religious significance to me whether pagan or Christian because I am an atheist. I find it ridiculous on birthdays, that JW's don't celebrate birthdays because two of Yahweh's followers were murdered on corrupt political officials on their birthdays. I highly doubt it was written in the Bible that thou shalt not celebrate the anniversary of one's own birth. I think birthdays are wonderful holidays to show loved ones how much you appreciate the fact that they even existence, especially when you may not get to see them very often. JW's think it takes time away from praising Yahweh. In their eyes it is kind of like worshipping yourself. I don't worship myself. I'm not a deity. Would Yahweh even worship himself? That would be kind of stupid.






Not to mention, celebrating birthdays doesn't harm anyone. It supposedly just causes hurt feelings in a deity that hasn't yet been proven to exist. I mean, all a Jehovah's Witness can really do is just quote from the Bible and Watchtower magazines. Well, as I have said before, you must prove that all the claims in the Bible are true, moral and are 100% backed by historical, scientific and archeological evidence. Using JW's immediately resort to accepting the Bible as a blind authority guide. I don't. I cannot accept anything on authority. It is common since the JW's are fundamentalist Christians to hear the tired argument that the Bible is the "inerrant word of Yahweh because there are passages written in the Bible that read that the text is inerrant". That's circular reasoning.


 I don't think anyone should accept any authority source that does not permit questioning, there are consequences associated with that behavior. Since when were Watchtower magazines equal in authority to the Bible? Most other Christian fundamentalists find that idea offensive, if not idolatrous than it is blasphemous At least the Mormons regardless of what branch of the Latter-day Saint movement they are from has other religious scriptural texts that their denomination considers to be "sacred" which they believe were guided by Yahweh's "loving" hands as Joseph Smith created them, particularly when he "translated" the Book of Mormon from Reformed Egyptian into English. Watchtower and Awake! magazines don't really count as scripture. Neither do Ellen White's writings if you are a Seventh-day Adventist. They revere her writings to much. The woman did interesting things for her time, but she was hit in the head with a rock as a child and was involved with the Millerite movement which anticipated the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in October of 1844.





In fact, if you are a Jehovah's Witness, a Seventh-day Adventist, a Christadelphian or a Bible Student ( the group founded by Charles Taze Russell that underwent a split or schism and gave birth to the Jehovah's Witness denomination, after Joseph Rutherford took over Russell's organization. CTR was a Second Adventist, I believe before founding the Bible Student Movement coincidentally, and Adventist thought permeated much of his literature.), you are a descendant of the Millerite movement. JW's, SDA's, BS's and Christadelphians, your denominations are a part of the Millerite movement.  William Miller was a Baptist preacher interestingly enough. When Jesus did not return to establish Yahweh's kingdom in October of 1844, this was known as the " Great Disappointment". I encourage you to do your own research on this fascinating topic.