RELIGION
(See also Babylon the Great; Beliefs; Christendom; Churches; Clergy; Cults; Freedom of Worship; Gods [Goddesses]; Heathendom; Idolatry; Interfaith; Paganism; Reformation; Religion’s Future in View of Its Past [Series in Awake!]; Sects; Worship; lands by name)
(Note centered headings below: False Religion; List by Name; Quotations; True Religion)
apathy regarding: w05 2/15 12; w91 2/1 3-4
avoiding deception regarding: w10 9/1 11-13
benefits of examining—
history of religion: w87 9/15 26-30
one’s own beliefs: w11 10/1 9
one’s own religion: sh 15-16; pe 25-33; g89 12/22 18; g88 8/8 9-11; tp 24, 27-28
other religions: sh 10
benefit to health: w04 2/1 3-4
benefit to life span: g00 12/22 28
big business: mrt article 27; g95 4/8 28; g94 9/8 29
book Mankind’s Search for God: w91 4/1 16-19
changing one’s religion: ijwfq article 40; g 7/09 28-29; w02 8/15 4-5; w98 7/1 4-6; rs 324-325; w88 6/1 3-7
Mary (mother of Jesus): w09 1/1 7
prevalence: g 2/09 30; g01 5/22 28
charts:
“Assyro-Babylonian Gods and Goddesses”: sh 45
“Christendom’s Major Religions”: sh 327
“Confucian Four Books and Five Classics”: sh 177
“Egypt’s Gods and the Ten Plagues”: sh 62
“Features of True Religion”: g 3/08 9
“Greek and Roman Divinities”: sh 43; g89 3/8 24
“Hinduism—Some Gods and Goddesses”: sh 116-117
“How to Identify the True Religion”: sh 377
“Shinto—A Religion of Festivals”: sh 193
“Simple Guide to Hindu Terms”: sh 106-107
“The Five Pillars of Islam”: sh 303
“The Six Pillars of Belief” (Islam): sh 296
children:
feelings: g98 12/8 29
choosing: w10 11/1 31; w09 8/1 3-4; w04 6/1 5-7; g03 4/8 29; g02 4/22 10-11; w01 6/1 13-15; w01 8/1 4-6; g99 2/22 6-7; w94 5/1 4-7; w94 6/1 8-12; w91 12/1 6-8; sh 12-18; rs 203-204, 322-330; g89 1/8 6-7; g88 8/8 3-11; w87 10/1 4-7; g87 9/8 8-11
early Christians: g88 8/8 5-7
obstacles to: g88 8/8 9-11
private religion: g 8/07 10; w03 4/15 4; g02 4/22 4, 8-11; g98 6/8 28
whether birthplace should decide: sh 8-10; g88 8/8 3-4
whether to accept parents’ religion: ijwbq article 130; w03 4/15 5-6; rs 324-325; g88 8/8 8; g86 11/22 13-15
why one should choose: w10 11/1 31; w07 3/1 3-4; w04 6/1 3-4; g88 8/8 7-11
Witness youths: w09 9/15 3-6; w08 5/15 17-21; w06 7/1 26-30; w90 8/1 10-14
Christian view of honoring religious leaders: w17.03 10
Christian view of religious broadcasts: w87 11/1 19-20
computer networks (public): g00 12/22 29; g96 6/8 28
conflicts between religions: g 1/15 16
Eastern Europe: g92 7/22 28
courts:
proper scope of inquiry: g88 10/22 6
decline: g 11/15 3-6; w12 6/15 17-18; g 2/07 3-8; re 229-230, 260-261; g03 6/8 6; g02 4/22 5-7; w98 7/1 3; g92 7/8 28; w91 2/1 3; g91 8/22 29; g89 1/8 3; g89 2/8 29; g89 10/8 21-25; g89 11/22 19-22; g88 2/8 12-15; tp 81-82
attitude toward Bible: w10 3/1 3-4; w02 9/15 15; w99 11/15 3; gm 5-6
Buddhism (Thailand): g96 9/22 28
chapels closed (Wales): g96 9/8 31
church bells termed “noise”: g92 2/8 28
churches exchanged for private religion: g02 4/22 4, 8-9
churches victimized by crime: g95 7/22 28
comments by archbishop of Cologne: w90 7/15 30
contributing factors: w06 9/1 3-4
growth of secularism: w91 12/1 3-4
ineffectiveness: w97 9/15 6
practicing believers: g92 3/8 28-29
reasons for resigning: w98 7/1 3
recommendation to abolish religion: g 1/11 7
religious vocations: g92 12/8 30-31
shortage of clergy: g00 9/22 29
spirit of protest against traditional: g87 6/8 23-24
surplus clergy: g95 12/8 29
two of oldest magazines fold (U.S.): g93 5/8 29
youths: g00 10/8 29; g93 7/8 28
discussing: g99 2/22 3-9
benefits: w95 4/1 4-8
proper way: g99 2/22 4-5
why many refuse: w95 4/1 3-4; w89 8/1 3-4
discussion: lmd Appendix A page 29; sh 5-379; rs 322-333
distinction between true and false: w12 5/1 16-17; fg 26-27; w91 12/1 6, 9-10
diversity within nations: ed 14-15
efforts to eradicate: g96 11/8 3-4
Albania: w05 10/15 19; w96 1/1 27
Germany (Nazi): g96 4/8 9
Russia: g96 4/8 9
employment involving: w19.10 12-13; w99 4/15 28-30
Etruscan: g97 11/8 26-27
experiences:
disillusioned with religion: ijwcl article 17
failure to combat prejudice: g 8/09 6; g04 9/8 7
failure to promote morality: w13 7/1 6
failure to teach love: g98 10/22 3-4
family life:
religiously divided home: bt 95; w16.03 16; w16.08 16-17; w14 5/1 14; w12 2/15 26-30; w10 5/15 13-14; w09 12/15 28; w05 3/1 18-20; w03 4/1 22; g99 8/8 20; w96 8/1 18-19; w96 10/15 21-22; fy 129-136; kl 144-145; g91 1/22 21-23
financing: w13 7/1 4
fraudulent schemes: g02 5/22 29; g97 9/22 9-10
fundamentalism: w97 3/1 3-7
Greek word: w91 12/1 15-16
growth of “prosperity” movements: g00 3/8 30; g99 6/22 28
Hebrew word: w91 12/1 19
history: g89 1/8 2-7, 9; g89 1/22 20-23; w87 9/15 26-30
colonization of Americas: g92 3/8 5, 10-11
religious partitioning of world: g88 8/8 3-4
instinctive in man: g 12/08 5-6; w05 7/15 3-4; w03 7/15 7; g02 4/22 3; g02 6/8 6; sh 28; g89 1/8 4; g89 3/22 6
interest in religion:
after terrorism: g02 6/8 28
indicated in books published: g99 6/22 28
youths: g98 8/8 12-14
intolerance by governments:
Europe (1500’s): g02 6/22 11
increase: g99 12/22 29
silence of UN and press: g86 1/8 29
investment con artists use: g90 4/22 28
legal registration: yb16 31; kr 158; yb09 25
meaning of term: w95 4/1 4; w91 12/1 15; sh 7, 16; rs 322; g89 1/8 3
understanding clarified (1950): jv 567
Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders (2000): w01 3/15 32
not all acceptable to God: ijwbq article 89; bhs 154-155, 162; bh 145; w09 2/1 9; ol 19-21; pe 25-29; rs 203, 322-324; g89 1/8 5
Cain and Abel: g89 1/8 5-6
number of members of major religions: g 11/13 3; w01 1/15 17
Christendom: w12 3/1 3
number of religions: w09 6/1 12; w09 8/1 3; w08 6/1 9; rs 322
“Christian” denominations: w12 3/1 3
only two forms: g89 1/8 5-7
organized religion: ijwbq article 90; g 9/12 20-21; w10 11/1 31; g02 4/22 8-9; rs 326-328, 331
origins: sh 19-40
evolutionary theory: sh 22-25; gm 42-43; g89 10/8 25
new religions: w07 3/1 4
Parliament of the World’s Religions:
first conference (1893): g89 10/8 24-25
second conference (1993): w94 2/1 30
persistence: g96 11/8 3-4
polarization among people: w87 10/15 12-13
political involvement: re 39-40, 236-243, 262-263; w96 4/15 12-13; g96 11/8 5-6; sh 269, 272; w89 4/1 5-6; g89 2/22 18; g88 12/22 3-8; w87 11/1 27-28; g87 4/22 3-10; g87 6/22 14; g87 9/8 28; w86 7/15 27
apartheid: w89 11/15 7; g88 6/22 3-6; w87 11/1 29; g86 7/22 4-6
Bible view: mrt article 38; w12 5/1 3-11, 22; w04 5/1 5-7; g87 4/22 8-10
Buddhism: g89 4/22 19
Charlemagne: w89 4/1 5
Christendom: w00 6/1 4-5; w93 7/1 9-11
Eastern Europe: w91 4/1 30; w91 9/1 4
Europe: g89 9/8 27
failure to improve world: w01 10/15 3-4
Hitler’s rise to power: re 237-238; w89 4/15 10-12
liberation theology: w01 10/15 3; g88 12/22 3-5, 8-10; w87 4/15 21; g87 4/22 7-8; g87 8/8 18-20; g87 11/8 2-11
major factor in terrorism: g 6/11 5-6; g87 1/8 6-8, 11-12
medieval Europe: g86 4/22 24
Nimrod: g89 1/22 21-22
Opus Dei: w89 4/1 6
peace efforts: g89 12/8 24-25, 27
popes in feudal Europe: g89 8/8 23-24
support of efforts for international security: w92 3/1 5-6
World Council of Churches: g91 2/22 11
quiz and answers: g88 12/22 15-25
racial superiority supported by: g93 8/22 6
revival in Eastern Europe: g91 1/8 6-8
Roman Empire:
attitude toward religion of subjects: w16.09 14-15
sacred writings: g89 3/22 10-13; g88 12/22 19
Bible distinct: w12 6/15 27; sh 16-17; op 24-25; gm 13-14
Catholic view: w97 1/15 32; g96 8/22 28
relative age: sh 17
school instruction: w91 12/15 28-29
science and: g02 6/8 3-11
science considered a kind of: g02 6/8 5-6
science influenced by: g93 4/22 21-22; g93 5/8 18-21
secret societies: w97 6/1 5-6
sects: it-2 886
sincerity not enough: w11 10/1 8; w03 2/1 32; pe 31-33
surveys:
attendance and morality: w88 4/15 21
attenders: w98 7/1 6; g92 3/8 29
attitude toward religion: g 9/14 3; g02 4/22 4; g89 2/8 29
Catholic acceptance of church teachings: g89 1/8 29; g88 3/8 25
Catholics: g92 6/8 28; g92 11/8 28-29; g86 11/22 13
Catholic youths who attend church: g89 10/22 29
cause of division: g 12/09 14; g 3/08 27
celibacy of priests: g 6/13 3; g90 7/22 28
changing religion: w07 3/1 3
college students’ views of religion and sex: g89 11/22 29
confidence in religion: g89 7/8 28; g87 4/8 29
difference between religion and spirituality: w04 2/1 5
going to heaven or hell: w94 2/15 32
how Koreans view the Bible and Christian churches: w86 4/15 4
prayer: g01 7/22 13; w98 7/1 6; g96 8/8 28-29
relationship to war: g87 2/22 30
Sermon on the Mount: w98 7/1 4
Southern Baptist clergy dismissals: g89 3/22 30
whether objectionable to participate in events of different religions: w86 12/15 3
whether religion is a force for peace: g87 6/8 8-9
youths: g98 8/8 12-13; g96 8/22 29; g86 11/22 13
symbols:
OM, AUM (Hinduism): sh 106, 116, 119, 128
swastika (Jainism): sh 104
three swords, circle (Sikhism): sh 100
tilak (Hinduism): sh 107
turbans (Sikhism): sh 101
white elephant (Buddhism): sh 147
traditions: w88 12/1 3-7
truth regarding: w13 11/1 7; g 3/08 7-9; w05 7/15 3-4; w98 10/1 3-4; w95 4/15 3-6; w95 7/1 5-8
Buddhist leader advises seeking: g98 2/8 30
joy in: w95 4/15 7-9
view of C. T. Russell and associates: jv 121-122
used for evil ends: w06 9/1 4-5
use of term by Witnesses: w91 12/1 14
war: w13 7/1 5; g94 10/22 3-7; g93 1/8 10; sh 13-15
cause of: wp25.1 9; re 245; w88 2/15 25; g87 6/8 8-10; g86 2/8 6; g86 12/8 23
chaplains: w13 7/1 5
comment by U.S. President Jimmy Carter: w88 2/1 17
comments at UN conference: w95 7/1 32
comments by columnist: w88 2/1 17
comments by theologian: w97 4/15 11
Cristero Rebellion (Mexico) (1926-1929): g05 8/22 12-14
former Yugoslavia: w96 7/1 5; w95 10/1 5-6; g95 8/8 29
involvement in: mrt article 48; re 207-208, 268; g03 3/22 28; ol 20-21; w01 9/15 3; w97 4/15 11; w96 4/15 13-14; w93 7/1 11; g93 4/22 3-7; g90 3/8 7-9; w88 11/1 3; g88 12/22 20; g86 2/8 6
just-unjust war theory: g00 3/8 28; g97 4/22 10
kindled by Reformation: g89 9/8 27
religious wars: g 1/11 4; g97 4/22 3-10; w93 7/1 11; g88 12/22 20
responsibility for: it-1 202; re 270-271; w95 10/1 5-6; w94 12/15 28; w90 2/1 17-19; g90 3/22 20; w89 9/1 4; g89 9/8 27; g89 11/8 20-21; w87 11/15 3
Rwanda (1994): yb12 197; w97 5/1 14; w96 4/15 14; w96 7/1 5; w94 12/15 28; g94 12/22 19
Spanish Armada against Britain (1588): g 8/07 24-25, 27
support of: g 2/12 29; g 1/11 4-5; yb07 112-113; w06 3/1 6; re 238, 245, 262-263; w90 9/15 29; w89 4/15 23; w89 5/15 3-5; pe 27-28; g89 12/22 7-8; w88 4/15 16-17; w88 5/15 27; g87 6/8 7-10
surveys on relationship: g87 2/22 30
Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648): w04 3/15 20-23
World War II: w96 7/1 5; g94 10/22 3-4; g89 12/22 3, 6-9
whether—
a force for moral good: w04 2/15 3-4; w87 10/15 3-7; tp 26-28, 30-31
a force for peace: g 1/11 3-9
all are acceptable to God: bhs 154-155; bh 145; fg 26; w10 2/1 16; w09 2/1 9; ol 4-5, 19-21; w96 7/1 3-4; w96 9/15 3-4, 6-7; rs 203, 322-324
all come from God: w87 5/1 3
all honor God: w14 8/1 16
all lead to God: ijwbq article 89; w09 6/1 12-15; w09 8/1 3-4; g 11/07 22; g01 6/8 26-27; sh 12; g88 3/8 18-19
at root of mankind’s problems: w04 2/15 4-7
can unite mankind: w05 1/1 3-6
clergy rule is best: w89 9/1 3-4
filling mankind’s needs: w94 5/1 3-4
it can satisfy our needs: pc 5-8; w87 11/15 3-7
it matters anymore: g96 4/8 2-11
just a big business: mrt article 27
just any is good enough: w91 12/1 6-8
loving one’s fellowman is what counts: rs 327
man-made: wp16.4 16
necessary: w17.11 21-22; w91 12/1 3-5
necessary to belong to religion: wp16.4 16; g 7/14 15
one can be good without: w06 9/1 3-5
one’s beliefs matter: g95 7/8 25-27; pe 25-33
one should investigate other religions: w00 10/15 8-9
one should join a religious group: w10 11/1 31
one’s religion should ever be abandoned: w95 2/1 3-7
people should be charged for services: g 6/10 22-23
personal Bible reading suffices: rs 328, 332-333
personal relationship with God suffices: rs 327-328
personal religion suffices: g02 4/22 8-11
practical in modern day: w87 10/1 3-7
reformable: w95 2/1 3-7
sectarian worship is acceptable to God: scl 61; g88 1/8 26-27
there is good in all religions: rs 323-324, 331-332
there is only one true religion: fg 20; w11 8/1 16; g 3/08 3-6; w03 9/1 3-7
trustworthy: w13 7/1 3-7
truth is attainable: w95 4/15 3-6; w95 7/1 5-8; jv 121-122
why be interested: w94 6/1 3-4; sh 5-18
why many avoid: rs 326
why people go to church: w03 12/1 3-4
why so many religions: g 7/14 14; rq 26; rs 322
why some are not interested: w94 6/1 5-6
why so much hypocrisy in: g 10/15 5
why take seriously: w91 2/1 4-7
worldwide:
conflicts: g 1/15 16
decline: g 11/15 3-6; g89 1/8 3; g89 2/8 29
distribution: g91 10/22 19
God’s view of: w88 4/15 14-17
percentage Christian, Muslim, Jewish: w89 7/1 3
similarities: sh 32-68
False Religion
Africa:
Masai: sh 56
Zulu: sh 56
animatism: sh 23-24
animism: it-1 202; sh 23, 75-76; g89 9/22 15
Arabia (ancient): sh 286-287
Assyria: it-1 201-202, 974-975; re 250; sh 52-53; w89 10/1 4; w88 2/15 25
astrology: g86 5/8 8-9
Aztecs: w12 3/1 13; w07 4/1 17; w92 4/1 4-5; sh 11, 51, 55, 57, 59; g87 2/8 23-25
Babylon: it-1 237, 239-240, 973-974; re 13-14, 235-236; dp 69, 71; sh 52-53; g89 1/22 21-23; w88 3/1 29
attempt for united false religion: w13 2/15 7; w91 12/1 10
influence on Greece: it-1 978, 1001; w90 5/1 22; g89 3/8 20-21
influence on Rome: it-1 979
parallels with modern-day: w89 4/1 7-8
Babylon the Great: ijwbq article 94; w22.05 11, 14; lff lesson 58; it-1 240-241; bhs 160; bh 152, 219-220; g 11/12 13; g 1/11 12-13; bm 30; re 13-14, 205-209, 235-276; ol 21; g96 11/8 4-8; w89 4/1 3-9; w89 4/15 3-23; w89 5/1 3-7; w89 5/15 3-7; pe 209-210; rs 49-53
prostitute: rr 163-164
video Get Out of Babylon the Great!: lff lesson 58
beginning: it-1 973-974; g89 1/8 4-7; w87 5/1 4-5
bloodguilt: wp25.1 9; re 207-208; w90 2/1 17-21; g89 11/8 19-22; w86 9/1 21-22; tp 22-26; g86 12/8 24-25
Babylon the Great: lvs 98; lv 83-84; w06 3/15 28; re 101, 245, 270-271; w89 4/1 5; w89 4/15 13; w89 5/1 6; w89 5/15 3-5; w88 12/15 21-22
Christendom: re 30-32, 102, 136, 162-163; w89 5/15 3-4; tp 23
paganism: w89 5/15 4-5
Vatican: w89 4/15 11-12
bondage to: g02 6/22 8; w92 4/1 4-5
bull worship: it-1 374
Canaanites: it-1 152-153, 228-229, 402-403, 976-977; w10 1/1 13-14; jd 102; w99 4/1 28-31; w92 4/1 4; g89 1/22 4-5; g89 2/22 19-20; w87 11/1 11
Celts: g92 9/8 18-19
China: sh 53
creation myths: sh 44-45
clergy-laity: w90 2/1 12-13
commercialization: mrt article 27; g 8/07 29; g03 5/22 29; w89 12/15 29; g86 12/22 29
cults: w94 2/15 3-4
criminal activity: g93 12/8 29
destruction: w22.05 11; w22.07 5-7; w19.09 10-11; rr 64, 66, 168-169; w15 7/15 15-16; g 11/15 5-6; kr 223, 226; w13 11/15 13; w12 9/15 4-5; g 11/12 12-13; re 256-275; w05 12/15 27-29; ip-2 105-119; g96 11/8 7-8; w89 5/15 5-7; w88 12/15 22-23; g88 4/8 16; g88 12/22 23; tp 31-33; ws 29-37, 148-151; g86 4/22 24
after peace proclamation: g89 12/8 23-25, 27
evidence of impending: w87 11/1 27-28
foregleam in French Revolution: g89 12/22 26-28
merited: w96 4/15 11-15
development: re 13-14; w91 12/1 10-11; w89 4/15 4-6; g89 1/8 5-6
Adam and Eve: g89 1/8 5
Babylon: rs 49-52; g89 1/22 20-23
Cain: g89 1/8 5-6
Christendom: w16.11 23; pc 26-27; w90 2/1 12-14; sh 261-282; g89 6/22 24-27; g89 7/8 21-24; g89 8/8 21-25; g89 8/22 16-20; g89 9/8 23-27; g89 9/22 14-17; g89 10/8 21-25; g89 10/22 17-21
Enosh’s day: wp17.1 10; g89 1/8 6
discussion: lff lesson 13
disunity: g89 1/8 5-6; g89 9/8 25-26; g87 6/8 5-6
Cain and Abel: g89 1/8 5-6
divine name despised by: w89 4/15 20
effect on conscience: w01 11/1 4-5
Egypt (ancient): it-1 531-533, 689-691, 975-976, 1169; it-2 370, 529-530; sh 53, 57, 59, 62-64; g89 2/8 21-22; w88 2/1 24-25
Etruscans: g89 3/8 21
triad: it-1 979
eunuch cult (India): g95 1/8 29
exposing: scl 62; g88 7/8 28
exposure by Witnesses: w01 6/15 32; jv 84-85
failure: w87 11/15 3-4
to bring peace: g 1/11 6; w97 5/1 14-15
to satisfy spiritual needs: pc 5-8
fatalism: w90 8/15 3-4
fetishism: g89 9/22 15
fleeces the flock: g88 3/22 5-8
friendship with world: ws 30-32
fundamentals: w91 12/1 10-11
fusion of false and true: ijwbq article 89; w90 12/1 3-4
Germanic peoples: g89 7/8 23
Greece (ancient): it-1 209-210, 509, 978-979, 1000-1002; w02 10/15 4; sh 42-44, 54-55, 64; g89 3/8 20-24
hatred for: w92 7/15 12
hatred for true worshippers: ip-2 394-396
identifying features: ijwbq article 89; scl 62; gf 18-19; pe 27-29
idolatry: it-1 1167-1172; ip-2 65-69, 97, 99; w93 1/15 20-30; w89 4/15 21-22
images: mrt article 49; lff lesson 14; it-1 1167-1168, 1185; w09 2/1 30-31; w09 11/1 9; ip-2 93, 95-96; w89 4/1 7; rs 183-187; g87 6/8 28
immorality promoted by: w19.06 5; re 262
temple prostitution: w89 4/15 3
irreformable: w95 2/1 3-7
lack of love: w88 4/15 16-17
magic: sh 69-94
“man of lawlessness” (2Th 2:3): it-2 310-312; w90 2/1 10-25
masks: g95 8/8 21-24
materialism: w86 4/15 21
Maya: g 3/10 22; w08 12/1 13-14; sh 52, 55-57
Medo-Persia: it-1 977-978; it-2 612-613
Moabites: w89 9/1 31
moon worship: it-2 429-431
mother goddesses: it-1 548, 977; it-2 529; w91 7/1 3-7; w89 4/1 7-8; w89 5/1 21
mythology: sh 41-68
nationalism: ijwbq article 74; re 191-192, 194; g89 11/8 19
native religions: g89 9/22 14-16
Pergamum: it-2 607-608; re 41-43; w03 5/15 13
Persia: it-1 977-978
Philistines: it-2 631
Phoenicians: it-1 739; it-2 636, 940; g01 11/8 15; w86 10/1 25
prayer beads: g90 6/8 12
pre-Flood: it-1 729-730, 1168-1169; wp17.1 10
pseudoreligion: g89 10/8 23-24
relics used in worship: w91 11/15 3-6
responsibility of religious leaders: w18.10 7-8
results: ol 19-21; w89 9/1 3-4
atheism: w09 10/1 11-12; w94 12/1 3-6; sh 343
belief in evolution: w94 9/1 5-7
confusion: w88 1/15 13-14
corrupted conscience: w01 11/1 4-5
division: w09 6/1 13; w07 12/1 3; g96 7/22 13; sh 278-280; w87 11/1 28; w86 4/15 11-12; tp 22-23
doubt: w12 7/1 5
fanaticism: w87 7/15 28-30
hatred: g97 9/8 6-7; w95 6/15 4
indifference: g90 7/22 29
intolerance: g93 1/8 10; g86 4/22 23-24
moral breakdown: w13 7/1 6; w89 4/15 8-9; g89 1/8 8-9; w86 4/15 21; w86 5/1 30; tp 26-28, 30-31
people who have been “saved”: w89 9/15 3, 6
persecution of true religion: it-2 609
prejudice: g 8/09 6
superstition: w87 11/1 3-6
terrorism: g87 1/8 6-8, 11-12
war: wp25.1 9; ol 20-21; w96 4/15 13-14; g89 12/22 6-7; w87 11/1 28; tp 22-26; ws 30-31; g86 2/8 6; g86 12/8 23-25
Roman Empire: it-1 979; it-2 824; w10 5/15 3-5; w02 10/15 4; sh 60-61, 64-65, 82; w89 10/1 5; g89 3/8 21, 24; g88 8/8 5-6
sacred poles: it-2 835-836
Samaritans (ancient): it-2 847-848; w90 12/1 3-4
Satan’s use of: w18.05 23-24; w15 5/15 13; w10 11/1 17; wt 72-73; rq 8
Satan the source of: rs 322-323
separateness from: lff lesson 58; w19.10 12-13; bhs 160-161; bh 152-153; ia 26-27; w06 3/15 27-31; re 265-266; w05 10/1 24; ol 21, 25, 27; kl 125-126; w91 12/1 9-14; pe 202; tp 32
letter of resignation: w19.10 12; w06 3/15 29-30; w96 6/1 19; kl 125-126
serpents in: it-1 548; it-2 530, 898; g 3/10 22-23
Pythian serpent (Greek mythology): it-2 1027
shamanism: g89 9/22 15-16
Sidonians: it-2 940
similarities: sh 32-68, 369; g87 2/8 25
to ancient Babylon: w89 4/1 7-8
‘Snare and Racket’: jv 447, 567; w88 3/1 13-14; w88 4/1 16
spiritism: it-2 1027-1030; bhs 221; w12 3/1 20-22; sh 69-94
Africa: ol 15-18; g96 11/22 3-7
Brazil: w01 5/1 20-23
spiritual prostitution: rr 162-165, 167-170; w89 4/15 3
star worship: it-2 1032-1033
stumbling block to belief in God: g86 2/22 7
sun worship: it-2 1043
Syria (ancient): it-1 152-153, 945; w03 7/15 26-28
Trickster (supernatural figure): g89 9/22 14
Tyre (ancient): it-2 1135
violence: ip-1 139-140; g97 9/8 6-7; g89 8/8 22-25
whether to investigate: w00 10/15 8-9
List by Name
(Where no references appear, see main heading)
Advent Christian Church:
Aladuras:
Anabaptists:
anchorites: g97 9/8 12
Animism:
Arianism: w98 3/15 28
Baha’i:
Baptist Church:
Brotherhood of the Flagellants: g00 2/8 24
Buddhism:
Calvinism: w10 9/1 18-21; sh 321-325
cargo cults: yb11 97; g 9/07 16
Ch’ŏndogyo:
Christianity:
Christian Science Church:
Church of England:
Church of God:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons):
Church of Scotland:
Collegiants (1600’s):
Confucianism:
Congregational Church:
Coptic Orthodox Church:
Deism:
Donatism: w14 12/1 10; w98 3/15 28
Dutch Reformed Church:
Eastern Orthodox Church:
Episcopal Church:
Ethiopian Orthodox Church:
Evangelical Churches:
Evangelical Reformed Church (Switzerland):
Exclusive Brethren: w93 1/15 3-4
Gnosticism:
Greek Orthodox Church:
Hinduism:
Huguenots:
Hutterites:
Islam:
Jainism:
Judaism:
Kimbilikiti: yb04 223, 226-227
Lollards:
Lutheran Church:
Mennonites:
Methodist Church:
Minor Reformed Church:
New Age movement:
Pentecostals:
Pilgrims (Puritans):
Polish Brethren:
Presbyterian Church:
Protestantism:
Quakers:
Rastafarians:
Reformed Church:
Roman Catholic Church:
Russian Orthodox Church:
Sandemanians:
Satanism:
Seventh-Day Adventists:
Shinto:
Sikhism:
Socinians:
Taoism:
Unification Church:
Unitarian Church:
United Church:
United Church of Canada:
United Church of Christ:
Unity of Brethren (Czech Brethren):
Wesleyan Church:
Zionist Christian Church:
Zoroastrianism:
Quotations
all derived their religious ideas from a common source: it-1 973
banner under which the most hideous crimes have been perpetrated: g98 10/22 4; w96 4/15 14; g93 12/22 6
beneath and above everything in Egypt was religion: g89 2/8 21
best way to see divine light is to put out own candle: g89 10/22 17
ceased to be a major social force: w96 4/15 14
common experience in every culture and every age: w02 5/15 3; ct 71
conflicts are almost always the most vicious, most enduring and most difficult to solve: tp 22
cruelest and most intolerant repressions in history: tp 22
deeply rooted in human nature: w02 5/15 3; ct 71
deep religious conviction, which should bind people in love, seems often to be part of the madness and murder: w88 2/1 17
enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another: w95 6/15 4; sh 14
every religion has its origin in Asia: g89 3/8 20
far from having developed ways we can live as neighbors: g98 3/22 28
first requisite for happiness is the abolition of religion: g89 12/8 23
how much of the world’s trouble is rooted in religion: tp 81
if there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion: g89 1/8 9
innermost reason for inhuman savagery: w87 11/15 3
instinctive attitude peculiar to man: w93 6/15 9; g92 1/22 9; g89 3/22 6
little difference between churched and unchurched: w91 4/1 9; sh 342
man is by his constitution a religious animal: g96 11/8 4; g89 1/8 4
man’s true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever: w06 10/15 32; g95 5/8 27; w91 4/1 11; sh 14
men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction: w96 9/15 4; sh 14; g89 8/8 25
men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it: sh 14; g89 8/8 21
one is as true as another: g89 1/8 3
one’s religion is whatever he is most interested in: g89 1/8 3
opium of the people: g01 4/22 3; jv 40; w92 1/1 3; w91 12/1 3; g90 3/22 28
parent of fanaticism and civil discord: g89 1/8 3
persistently greater threat to human life: tp 22-23
philosophy and religion are irreconcilable: g89 10/8 21
politics:
church in danger of seeing politics meddle with religion: w87 11/1 27
fundamentalist Christians have gradually come to believe that political activism is a duty: g87 4/22 7
I always heard that churches should stay out of politics. Now it seems almost a sin not to get involved: g87 4/22 7
time to get politics out of the pulpit and the pulpit out of politics: g87 4/22 10
present religious conflict beyond borders of sanity: w95 7/1 32
religion, if in heav’nly truth attir’d, needs only to be seen to be admired: g89 12/22 16
religion, which should have served to resist the secular horrors of the age, was used to sanctify them: w89 5/15 5
religion of the New Testament was fused with Greek philosophy: w99 8/15 10; ie 15; g89 6/22 27
religion’s in the heart, not in the knees: g89 9/22 14
religious traditions are not supposed to spread hatred and violent conflict: w95 7/1 32
scratch any aggressive tribalism, or nationalism, and you usually find a religious core: g93 12/22 6
test of a creed is its ability to change behavior in daily life: g89 6/8 27
test of a religion or philosophy is the number of things it can explain: g89 4/22 15
there has been no society which has not sought to give order and meaning to life through some form of religion: w95 4/1 4
there is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it: g89 1/22 20
unleashes tremendous violence: w97 5/1 17; w96 4/15 14; g93 12/22 6
war:
Catholic hierarchies almost always supported the wars of their nations: g98 10/22 4; g94 10/22 3; w90 2/1 19
chief motivation for war: w87 11/15 3
contradiction between the Christian spirit and the conduct of war seems increasingly clear: w90 2/1 19
half or more of the wars are religious: re 271; g89 1/8 6
kill Germans—do kill them: pe 27-28
more people killed in name of religion than all wars and natural disasters: w95 7/1 32
religious wars tend to be extra furious: sh 14
we command you in the name of God: pe 27-28
when not encouraging strife it is acting as a drug: w04 2/15 4
why not abolish religion?: tp 81
True Religion
appeal to lowly people: w88 7/1 28-30
beauty: g89 12/22 16-19
benefits: w10 2/1 17; w06 9/1 6-7; ol 29-30; w91 2/1 6-7
when united with divine government: g89 2/22 18
Christianity: pc 24-26; w91 12/1 12-14; sh 235-260; g89 6/8 24-27
Eden: w87 5/1 4-5
existence of: w10 2/1 16
fills spiritual void: g96 4/8 10-11
identifying features: ijwbq article 92; w21.10 19-23; bhs 155-159, 162; w14 8/1 16; w14 9/15 7-11; bh 145-146, 148-151; g 7/14 15; fg 20-21; w11 8/1 16-17; w10 2/1 17; rk 26-27; w09 6/1 14-15; g 3/08 9; g 1/07 19; lr 214; w01 2/1 10; w01 6/1 13-15; dg 29-30; gf 16-17; rq 26-27; g95 5/8 20-21; w94 6/1 11-12; jv 706-709; w91 2/1 5-6; w91 12/1 7-8, 16-20; sh 344-345, 377; pe 29-31, 45-46, 184-190; rs 203-204, 283-284, 328-330; g89 3/8 10; g89 12/22 18; w88 2/1 16-20; g88 3/8 18-19; w87 7/15 29; g87 2/8 26-27; g87 9/8 8-10; tp 33
Bible respected: w09 8/1 8-9; rq 26-27; pe 187-188
Bible use not enough: w94 6/1 10-11
love: w23.03 26-31; cf 177; w15 11/15 23-24; w09 6/1 14; w09 8/1 6-8; w09 11/15 20; w07 3/1 5-7; jv 30, 710-712
miracles per se not: ol 22, 24; jv 705; g89 3/8 8-10
morality: w09 8/1 5-6
no share in wars: g97 4/22 10-11
professing faith in Christ not enough: scl 62
Israel (ancient): mwb21.07 2; pc 24; w91 12/1 11-12; sh 205-212; g89 2/22 17-20
Jehovah’s Witnesses represent: ijwfq article 3; w21.10 19-23; w14 9/15 7-11; w13 11/1 2; w12 8/1 28; pc 27-28; w04 10/1 12-13; w03 8/1 15-17, 19; w02 7/15 15-25; ol 22, 24; w01 6/1 12-17; dg 29-31; gu 27-28; w98 10/1 4-6; g96 11/8 8-9
key to: w86 6/1 3-7
no compromise with false: scl 60-62; g89 2/22 18-20; g86 3/8 17; g86 3/22 7-8
only one: ijwbq article 91; ijwfq article 3; fg 20; w11 8/1 16; g 3/08 3-6; w03 9/1 3-7
organized: ijwbq article 90; od 24; g 9/12 20-21; w11 6/1 13-15; w04 6/1 3-4, 6-7; rs 326-327
practicing: w94 6/1 13-18; w91 12/1 15-20
preservation: w91 12/1 11-14
search for: w94 6/1 5-7
struggle with false religion: w91 12/1 9-14, 20
truth attainable: g 3/08 3-5; w02 7/15 15-17; w95 4/15 3-6; w95 7/1 5-8; jv 121-122
value: w91 2/1 4-7