The JW’s are a specific branch o protestant Christianity that arose in the USA.

They are evangelical, note the small e, in that they believe it is their express duty to spread their take on Christ’s message. They are NOT Evangelical in the sense of non-denominational Christianity.

They are non-trinitarian (there is just God not parts of God), they believe Armageddon is imminent.

Witnesses still fall into most of the red flags for cultishness but they are a little too big to be viewed as a cult.

essentially a cult that believes in alternative christian bible concepts.

I dont trust them because they took a friend of mine i had away from me.

I have very little personal experience with them, but I used to work with a guy who was raised JW, and he had nothing good to say about them. He lived it and called it a cult, so I’ll take his word on it.

Like mormons they shun the outside world and those who leave their group. Their street missionaries are meant to show their members how outside people are bad not convert people. Best to be nice to them to show them it’s a lie.

They’re someone who acted as a witness in the case of Jehovah v. Everyone, a class-action case filed when some dick allegedly caused a flood and destroyed the world.

I have to say allegedly as terms of the settlement

Not a Christian group - they’re more like the Mormons. They believe their founder is the most recent prophet, that his rewriting of biblical texts based off his interpretation of the King James bible is the only true interpretation, and that only the elect are going to Heaven, and that they get there by saving other people’s souls (essentially, he who makes the most JWs wins). And yes, it is definitely “he” — the women are saved through childbearing. The group commonly goes by the name The Watchtower Society. They’re famous for distributing tracts door to door. If you turn away from being a JW, all others are required to cease having anything to do with you. If you hear their teachings and then tell them you choose to belong to a different faith, you’re considered a heretic and for the most part they will try to avoid you (no more house calls).

This response coming from a Christian, let me try to answer this in a bullet point list:

• they’re strict;
• they don’t celebrate birthdays, or don’t do anything they believe it’s associated with paganism;
• they’re strict;
• they knock on people’s doors with a strict dress code to make more people join in;
• they’re also around the world, as missionaries;
• have I mentioned they’re strict?

thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Don’t take what I said as fact and do your own research.

If you have the time for an hour-long deep dive into the history, check out this video from a history youtuber I’m a big fan of:

Temporary Residents in this World | Jehovah’s Witnesses - Knowing Better

You can skip the first 2 minutes if you don’t care about the skit stuff.

christians in my country label them as perverts.

They are an Evangelical cult, and unless he is going to leave the group, get your daughter away from him. Otherwise he will try to convert her and manipulate her

If you ever want to feel uncomfortable and depressed, go watch a sermon at a Kingdom Hall (Jehovah’s Witness church). It’s all about Armageddon.

Im surprised you have them in the area and don’t know about them as they are big time door knockers.

For day-to-day purposes, they’re anti-fun. They don’t celebrate holidays, birthdays, etc.

I’d say your daughter is dodging a bullet, but it’s more like he’s pushing her out of the way.

Hopefully, when (if) he goes to college, he’ll put this crap behind him. Telling young people that they can’t date is ridiculous. Excessive self-denial is not an enjoyable life for yourself or the people around you.

I care very little about people’s peculiar beliefs, however you should know about Jehovas witnesses:

• they are absolutely a cult and dangerous.

• they believe joining their cult is the only way to achieve eternal life. Everyone else is doomed.

• they put a very high focus on „saving“ people, aka bringing them into the cult. In fact, how many people you brought in is a big factor in determining your worth. Members are absolutely convinced they are doing good and actually saving souls. At least the normal folk who don’t abuse their brothers and sisters.

• members are discouraged from forming bonds and meaningful interaction with non-members, unless it serves bringing them into the cult.

• if someone leaves the cult, other members are forbidden from interacting with them, even within families. Except for the purposes of stalking and harassment of course.

• obeying authority without question is very important. The children obey the parents. The wife obeys the husband. The husband obeys those above him in the pecking order. This creates a fertile breeding ground for domestic and sexual abuse, which are dealt with „internally“, aka swept under the rug.

That said, most of them are normal people trapped in a very bad system. They can be kind, absolutely lovely people, or huge pricks, or pure evil, everything people outside the cult can be. It’s just that every single one of them needs to pull you inside, for your own good.

A JW to non-JW relationship is not possible in the long term. Either your daughter will be absorbed by the cult (because he can’t let his wife and their children be condemned) and distance herself from you and her former friends or he will leave and be shunned by his family and friends inside the cult. Anything else will not be tolerated by his community.

The best you can do is to find out about their methods and dangers and also prepare your daughter to never give up thinking for herself. I hope she is level headed enough to understand that it is not going to go well, even if he is a genuinely good person.

I’m an atheist so, grain if salt because all religions are pretty dumb to me but… JWs are really quite crazy, even by modern evangelical standards. They believe there are a finite number of individuals that will be allowed into heaven. Believers are in a competition to get to the top of the list. They also believe in absolute mental control over the congregation and members are encouraged to never date outside of the church.