{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Jehovah's Witnesses","description":"Our quote for today is from Theodore Roosevelt. He said, \u201cWide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.\u201d In this podcast, we are making our way through Garry R. Morgan's book, "Understanding World Religions in 15 Minutes a Day." Our Understanding World Religions topic for today is, "Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses" Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses are well known for the door-to-door pairs who encourage people to join Bible studies and purchase Watchtower literature. They have produced more than thirty billion pieces of literature and spend over a billion hours annually distributing it. The Watchtower magazine is published in nearly two hundred languages and has a worldwide circulation that more than doubles that of Reader\u2019s Digest. Jehovah\u2019s Witness theology is based on the writings of Charles Taze Russell, who, influenced by certain Adventist preachers as to the second coming of Christ, founded the Zion\u2019s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ\u2019s Presence magazine in 1879. He wrote articles teaching that Christ had returned invisibly in 1874 and would establish God\u2019s visible kingdom in 1914. Soon after, he established Zion\u2019s Watch Tower Tract Society, the forerunner of the current Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. As they do today, Russell\u2019s followers sold books, magazines, and other literature door to door. ... ","author_name":"Understanding World Religions","author_url":"http:\/\/understandingworldreligions.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"