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Originally posted by AchtungBaby80
Here are my questions, and I have been wondering about these for a while...
1). What exactly is the Christian denomination called in which the women are not allowed to cut their hair or wear pants? (I went to school with a few of these girls, but I was afraid to ask because I didn't want to offend them.)
2). Why don't Jehovah's Witnesses celebrate Halloween, birthdays, etc.?
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1) There's a few, but most of them are on the Pentacostal/Fundamentalist line of thinking. I
think it's in Corinthians about women needing to look like women and men needing to look like men.
2) I understand the Halloween bit, since I don't celebrate it either, but I'm not sure about birthdays. Halloween is a pagan holiday, and that's why Jehovah Witnesses don't celebrate it. Actually, that's their reasoning for Christmas, too, since Jesus was more probably born in September/October than in December. When pagans were being "Christianized", many of the missionaries thought it better to let them retain their old holidays & give them Christian names, rather than try to deter them. That's the short version!
