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Watchtower Society: Understanding the Jehovah's Witnesses with Isaac Carmignani

Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

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The History of Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses is the name that people associate with this organization. The whole thing started in the 1880s, and it was an outgrowth of the Bible students movement. Joseph Rutherford or Judge Rutherford became president; he changed their name to Jehovah's Witnesses. He called this new structure a theocracy.

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