Jehovah's Witnesses

Well guess who showed up at our door in Stratford? Looks like before I got here, some Jehovah's Witnesses spoke to my sister and asked if they could come by again and Jen decided she would invite them over to have a discussion with us sometime later this week.

...because I bought a book the other day on the subject and she figures I should talk to them

If you're thinking I sound annoyed, I'm really not. I actually bought this book on JW's because we have some that visit us in London and I wanted to educate myself well on the subject so I could properly address them. But hey, I can't read that fast Jen! Guess I got my work cut out for me.

I just wanted to share some funny anecdotes that I've read about thus far, here are some quotes from the book Answering Jehovah's Witnesses by Jason Evert. Also, so you know, Charles Taze Russel is the founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Apparently a guy named J.J. Ross published a book that claimed that Russel "knows comparatively nothing of philosophy, systematic or historical theology, and is totally ignorant of the dead languages". So ol' Russel decided to sue Ross, and here's the records from the transcript of the court proceedings, when the defendant's attorney asked Russel if he knew Hebrew, Latin or Greek:

STAUNTON: "Do you know the Greek Alphabet?"
RUSSEL: "Oh Yes."
STAUNTON: "Can you tell me the correct letters if you see them?"
RUSSEL: "Some of them, I might make a mistake on some of them"
STAUNTON: "Would you tell me the names of those on top of the page, page 447, that I have got here?"
RUSSEL: "Well, I don't know that I would be able to."
STAUNTON: "You can't tell what those letters are, look at them and see if you know?"
RUSSEL: "My way . . . [interrupted]"
STAUNTON: "Are you familiar with the Greek language"
RUSSEL: "No."

Some other interesting things I didn't know about their founder is that apparently he "discovered" one day that he was the seventh angel whom John spoke about in the book of Revelations. Not only that, but the six other angels were the apostles John and Paul, three other guys who I have no idea who they are, as well as Martin Luther! And to top it all off, Russell passed away on Halloween, (in 1916) while on a train, wearing a toga made from bedsheets.

Unique.