Празднуют ли Свидетели Иеговы Новый год? Нет, по двум причинам

No. Jehovah’s Witnesses, who see themselves as Christians, do not celebrate New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. Their publications give two reasons. They point out that the Romans dedicated the first of January to Janus, one of their gods, and that in many places the night is kept with heavy drinking and wild parties, which the Bible warns against. When Witnesses write about New Year’s Eve, they turn again and again to a few lines of Paul’s letter to…