How Can Jehova's Witnesses Pronounce the Word Thursday?

[Brickjectivity]

Exodus 23:13 "“Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips."

So...why do JW's continue to use the word 'Thursday' when everybody knows its named after a pagan god? Every time I hear a JW pronounce the word Thursday, aren't they breaking this commandment? Its is befuddling.

 

[Hockeycowboy]

We don’t say it. We say “the day after Wednesday”, or “the day before Friday.” Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

 

[Estro Felino]

The other names of the week too
Wednesday- Wotan
Friday-Freya
Saturday- Saturn

 

[Hockeycowboy]

Oh, and we don’t say the planets’ names, either...

Mars is “the fourth rock from the Sun”, and so on. (Oops, I just wrote “Mars”! Oops, I did it again!)

 

[Hockeycowboy]

The other names of the week too
Wednesday- Wotan
Friday-Freya
Saturday- Saturn

I know, I’m just playin’

 

[Hockeycowboy]

Someday though, these names will be changed, by Jehovah! Till then, we’ll have to ‘keep sinning.’

Lol.

 

[Deeje]

Exodus 23:13 "“Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips."

So...why do JW's continue to use the word 'Thursday' when everybody knows its named after a pagan god? Every time I hear a JW pronounce the word Thursday, aren't they breaking this commandment? Its is befuddling.

We had nothing to do with naming the days of the week, or the months either. It was actually Pope Gregory we have to thank for that. Good Christian that he was.....

We hardly "invoke" other gods by speaking about a day named after them.....seriously?

 

[Willamena]

Exodus 23:13 "“Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips."

So...why do JW's continue to use the word 'Thursday' when everybody knows its named after a pagan god? Every time I hear a JW pronounce the word Thursday, aren't they breaking this commandment? Its is befuddling.

It's debatable whether saying the name of a day of the week invokes a god.

 

[Estro Felino]

We had nothing to do with naming the days of the week, or the months either. It was actually Pope Gregory we have to thank for that. Good Christian that he was.....

We hardly "invoke" other gods by speaking about a day named after them.....seriously?

Actually our days are named after Roman gods...Luna, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus....
at least yours are after Germanic gods

 

[Brickjectivity]

We hardly "invoke" other gods by speaking about a day named after them.....seriously?

The scripture verse not only says not to invoke them but not to let them be heard on your lips. When I was a child my mom, for this very reason, would not let me say 'Devil' or 'Satan' and considered products with these words unpurchasable -- such as the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner series. Why is it that you aren't taking this verse seriously and pronounce days of the week named after gods?

edit: My mom did say the days of the week, though. I'm just saying she took the verse seriously.

 

[Brickjectivity]

It's debatable whether saying the name of a day of the week invokes a god.

Yes, I agree. On the other hand you are still saying the name of a god. It is on your lips when you say the day of the week.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Someday though, these names will be changed, by Jehovah! Till then, we’ll have to ‘keep sinning.’

Lol.

So you are thinking of it as a compromise or maybe a detail to be figured out later.

 

[Hockeycowboy]

Some things, we just have to go along with....like time off work for Christmas. It’s just the way the world is geared for now, we just go along with it.

@Deeje answered it well.

 

[dianaiad]

The other names of the week too
Wednesday- Wotan
Friday-Freya
Saturday- Saturn

Monday: after the moon...Monandaeg (Sol's brother)
Tuesday: Tiw...one handed god of dueling
Wednesday: Wodens day
Thursday: Thor's day
Friday: Freya's day
Saturday: Saturn's day..the only day of the week NOT named after a Germanic god
Sunday: "Sunnandaeg...'sun's day,' the goddess Sunna, or "Sol." (hey. the sun is FEMALE!" Woo hoo!

I think that's why the Quakers went to 'first day, second day, etc."

As for me, I say we go ahead and 'baptize' all those pagan gods, rather like the Catholics did the gods of the people their politicians conquered, and make them all saints.

I mean, we did it for Christmas, right?

Oh. Jehovah's Witnesses.

Sorry.

I gotta say that I have to admire a group of people who look at this stuff, follow the logic of avoiding pagan traditions and gods and such, and stick to their opinions.

I don't agree with them, of course, but I have to admire them for this.

 

[Hockeycowboy]

Actually our days are named after Roman gods...Luna, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus....

Yes! Italian, right?

You know, it is similar to Spanish: Lunes, Martes, Miércoles, Jueves, Viernes.

And the English ‘Monday’, means ‘Moon day’, related to Luna(r).

 

[Estro Felino]

Monday: after the moon...Monandaeg (Sol's brother)
.

yeah before Christianity we had:
1) Solis dies
2) Lunae dies
3) Martis dies
4) Mercurii dies
5) Iovis dies
6) Veneris dies
7) Saturni dies

Sol is a male deity, like the Greek Helios...while Luna (Greek Seleni) is female...
in our culture the moon is feminine

 

[Deeje]

Actually our days are named after Roman gods...Luna, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus....
at least yours are after Germanic gods

Like Hockeycowboy, I too look forward to the time when there will be one God and one religion....the same ones they had in the Garden of Eden.
Then the days of the week and months of the years will be of God's choosing and will last forever.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

We had nothing to do with naming the days of the week, or the months either. It was actually Pope Gregory we have to thank for that. Good Christian that he was.....

We hardly "invoke" other gods by speaking about a day named after them.....seriously?

The Quakers were able to change it for their purposes to address this very issue. You can still find some Quakers who refer to Sunday as "First Day," Monday as "Second Day," etc.

 

[Deeje]

The scripture verse not only says not to invoke them but not to let them be heard on your lips. When I was a child my mom, for this very reason, would not let me say 'Devil' or 'Satan' and considered products with these words unpurchasable -- such as the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner series. Why is it that you aren't taking this verse seriously and pronounce days of the week named after gods?

edit: My mom did say the days of the week, though. I'm just saying she took the verse seriously.

Your Mom sounds like a very authentic sort of person, not willing to give the devil a foot in the door. Now he camps in your loungeroom. (living room)

 

[Deeje]

The Quakers were able to change it for their purposes to address this very issue. You can still find some Quakers who refer to Sunday as "First Day," Monday as "Second Day," etc.

Which is fine if you have little to do with the world. Try making an appointment using that system. We live in the world, but try not to be part of the awful bits of it.

Jesus didn't confine himself away from others but offered his truth to all. His apostles didn't either. They went out to the Gentiles to preach.