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Famous Jehovah's Witnesses
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Written by Randall Watters   
Sunday, 22 February 2009 13:03
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A range of participation is represented by these individuals, from full activity to disaffiliation.

PRINCE - currently an active Jehovah's Witness

 

Maurizio Bianchi - Musician

Ivana Brkic - Croatian Musician

Richard Cameron- Dutch Musician

Valerie Campbell - Mother of Naomi Campbell

Tom Edur - Former NHL ice hockey player

Ida E. Eisenhower (Mother of President Eisenhower)

Leopold Engleitner - Buchenwald concentration camp survivor and centenarian

Larry Graham - Sly & the Family Stone

Danny Granger - Indiana Pacers small forward

Teresa Graves - Reputedly the first black woman to play the lead in a police movie, also a singer

Gary Gygax - Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons

Katherine Jackson - Michael Jackson's mother

Rebbie Jackson - Singer, daughter of Katherine Jackson

Scott Johnson - Actor

Phillip Landry - Musican

Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Japanese musician, name comes from the Book of Isaiah

Margaret Keane - Artist who said converting "changed her life."[1]

Peter Knowles - Famous soccer player in England who quit his football career in 1970 aged 24 to join the Jehovah's Witnesses

Brian Locking - Bass guitarist with The Shadows for eighteen months, but left to Jehovah's Witnesses activities.

Hank Marvin - Lead guitarist for The Shadows

Bohumil Müller - Czech survivor of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and underground religious leader under Communism.

Viv Nicholson - Major pools winner

Evelyn Ntoko (first wife of Nelson Mandela Prince -

Musician Ken Richmond - The man who banged the gong in the Rank Organisation film logo from 1955 onward.

Miu Sakamoto - Japanese Singer, a Daughter of Ryuichi Sakamoto andAkiko Yano

Damo Suzuki (Converted in the 1970s, current membership status uncertain)

Bobby Tambling - English footballer

Phil Terry - member of the 60's R&B group The Intruders.

David Thomas - Avant-garde rocker, "Jehovah's Kingdom come"[2][3]

Jean Terrell - Replaced Diana Ross in the Supremes in 1970.

Akira Toriyama - Japanese Mangaka(Cartoonist), Author of Dragon Ball(Manga)

Yoshito Usui - Japanese Mangaka, Author of Crayon Shin-chan

Reena Virk - Canadian child murder victim

Lark Voorhies - actress, Saved By The Bell

Lou Whitaker - Former MLB baseball player for the Detroit Tigers.

Serena Williams - tennis player ; 8 Grand Slam champion

Venus Williams - tennis player ; 5 time Grand Slam champion

Akiko Yano - Japanese Singer, Former wife of Ryuichi Sakamoto

Solveig Romero - Mexico and Switzerland, Actress and wife of Martin Campbell, the director of James Bond Casino Royale

Chuck Winfield - Former Trumpet player for Blood, Sweat, and Tears.

 

 

List of former Jehovah's Witnesses

 

 

Further discussion here http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/131024/1/Wow-a-long-list-of-Famous-active-JWs-and-xJWs

 

Discover the issues concerning African Americans and the Watchtower Society

  

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written by Karen Dagenais , July 01, 2009

Jehovah's Witnesses do not form their own conclusions and make up rules. Everything they do comes from the Bible. Read your own Bible and you will learn what God requires of all of us...READ READ READ and stop saying Witnesses make up things ..they are the only ones that read their bibles and look up history to understand better than any religion...look in your own bible and see God's name is JEHOVAH..PSALM 83:18
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written by Michael MacPhail , October 28, 2009

Karen, Please explain your thoughts about "Taking blood" or "Blood transfusions"?If that's in fact takin from your Bible! The first blood tranfusion was not until 1492!I don't know what bible your reading.The bible predates that!
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written by AH , January 01, 2010

the bible says dont kill.Inline with your argument nuclear weapons predate the bible.so killing human beings with nuclear bomb is not a sin according to the bible.
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written by rae , February 15, 2010

the bible says to continue abstaining from blood in the new testement Jeohovahs witnesses beleive that taking it introvenousely is the same as eatting it which was a comand in the old testement
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written by Richard Ronan , February 19, 2010

written by Michael MacPhail , October 28, 2009

Karen, Please explain your thoughts about "Taking blood" or "Blood transfusions"?If that's in fact takin from your Bible! The first blood tranfusion was not until 1492!I don't know what bible your reading.The bible predates that!

Simply put. The bible in both the Hebrew Scriptures and the Greek/Christian writings indicate that God has placed a special meaning on blood and as such asks that blood not be used for sustenance or used an any way other than to be 'poured upon the groung'. This raises difficult decisions for the conscience of each Christian because each Christian must decide to what extent this is a command or simply a priciple. For instance should a Christian not use anti-venom which has been cultured in blood? However there are some very obvious uses of blood which directly contradict the princible of 'abstain from blood', blood transfusions being one of them.

-LBH

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written by Rich , February 20, 2010

I have actually had a few conversations with Witnesses and I have always found it SO funny that they bring up Psalms 83:18 and expect me to say something like "What! His name is Jehovah! I totally didn't know that! I'm totally joining your church."

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Umm... To anyone who reads the bible that fact is transparently clear. God is Jehovah. Not only will you find the name Jehovah in the Bible but anytime it reads names like Lord God you can pretty much substitute in Jehovah.

It is ridiculous to think that this "revelation" about God's name being Jehovah is such a fundamental doctrine.

This kind of discussion goes on and on about various Witness interpretations of scripture (regarding blood, holidays, days of Worship, patriotism...). It's just trivial interpretation. Trivial.

I acknowledge there are larger issues that the Witnesses preach (ie. salvation, the afterlife) but once again, it is based on man's understanding. Am I to believe that the founders of the Witness movement were more intelligent regarding the bible than great scholars like Adam Clarke, Geikie, William Smith, and the great F.W. Farrar?

These men interpret and write, but they do not break the branch and lose scope of greater teachings to separate and start a new religion.

To become a witness is to put your trust in man's wisdom.

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written by Kelly , February 28, 2010

"To become a witness is to put your trust in man's wisdom."
In fact the opposite is true. JW's go exactly on what the bible says; nothing more, nothing less. They're very strict about it, and try to follow only the bible itself more than any other Christian denomination that I've seen.

""...about God's name being Jehovah is such a fundamental doctrine. This kind of discussion goes on and on about various Witness interpretations of scripture (regarding blood, holidays, days of Worship, patriotism...). It's just trivial interpretation..."

The Bible is a very economically written book. Nothing in it is trivial.

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written by AidaCombs24 , March 06, 2010

If you are willing to buy real estate, you would have to receive the loans. Furthermore, my father all the time takes a short term loan, which occurs to be the most reliable.
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written by Angela Osbourne , March 18, 2010

In doing my own research, and through prayer, I have come to realize the degree of deception to which the WTBTS will resort in order to fulfill one purpose, one agenda, namely, their own. Their interest is converts, and their objective is mind control. God, Jehovah, the Most High, the Almighty, Jesus Christ, and the Savior serve no purpose in their religion. As the aforementioned are one and the same, He is not recognized as such by JW's. The Society is their God, and the individuals in turn, are the Society's mouthpiece. Although, they would be cast into the Lake of Fire before admitting this truth.
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