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Hollywood Jehovah's Witness
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Knock, knock! Have you accepted Hollywood Jehovah into your life? If not, perhaps you would be interested in some literature? You'll find we're a lot more straightforward than a lot of Real Life religions; not much in the way of intricate doctrine, regular ritualistic practises or nuanced internal culture. All you need to do is pull out the occasional peripheral oddball belief, some crazed eschatological spouting (that's The End of the World as We Know It) and indeed lots and lots of Knocking On Heathens Doors. However, you only have to pull these out when most convenient to the plot. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Key points of belief: The world is about to end. When the world ends, only 144,000 will get to go to heaven. Other than that, it's the blood transfusions, especially if it's a Medical Drama. Cue Very Special Episode about respecting beliefs or not so special episode about respecting life more, the shocking revelation that the Littlest Cancer Patient isn't getting that life saving treatment because their parents are Jehovah's Witnesses and legal wrangling to overrule them. May also believe in not having jobs/not believe in the Bible/not believe in Jesus/not believe in having any medicine at all, depending on how much the particular writer skimped on research. Yeah, there happens to be this other Real Life religion with a similar name but they've got all this extra junk about the true nature of Christ, the method of Salvation, organizational structure and all those other things that you can't fit into a 42-minute hour. Now those guys do believe that only 144,000 will go to heaven, yes (technically, rule heaven alongside Jesus), but that's not what most of them are aiming for: other good people will rebuild earth into a paradise and live there for a thousand years before the final Judgment Day. They do indeed believe that blood is sacred and thus they reject blood tranfusions. However, the real life ones have committees trained to point out the alternatives to blood transfusion, even having had heart surgery performed without transfusions without lowering survival rates - but that wouldn't make for such an interesting moral dilemma in Medical Drama. They are politically neutral (i.e. not voting, not joining the army, not working in government jobs, and generally not acknowledging the existence of the nation-state). Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Also, it's grammatically incorrect to say "a Jehovah's Witness." The phrase "one of Jehovah's Witnesses" is more correct and is more commonly used by actual Witnesses. |
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Utterly mocked in Rat-Man. The first story has the titular 'hero' being mistaken for one when he knocks on the door of the Buffoon's lair and presents himself as "I'm Rat-Man! I bring justice among those who walk on the wrong path!", prompting the Mooks to grab the knives to 'make him disappear'. On a later occasion, we have a Jehovah's Witness knock on Rat-Man's door, and we're treated to his own way to scare them away. | |
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