jehovah's witnesses.serious question;

is it true that they don't celebrate birthdays?

Jehovah's Witnesses do not engage in them due to pagan origins.
The ancient jews, first christians celebrated birthdays. Pagans would celebrate the birthday of a person in honor of the particular god of the astrological sign that person was said to be born under. That was to appease that god, and supposedly bring good luck to the individual.
In the Bible, no servant of the true God is spoken of as celebrating their birthday, not even Jesus or his apostles. The date of Jesus' birth is not even mentioned in the Bible, and nobody knows what the actual date of his birth is. The only two birthday celebrations mentioned in the Bible were done by unbelievers, worshipers of false gods, and bad things happened on those occasions. These were an Egyptian Pharoah, in which he had his chief cupbearer hung, and in Jesus' day, King Herod had John the Baptist beheaded during his own birthday party.
Given the pagan origins of birthday celebrations, and the bad light cast on such celebrations by the Bible, Jehovah's Witnesses choose not to engage in birthday celebrations.

Nobby Cheese wrote:Jehovah's Witnesses do not engage in them due to pagan origins.
The ancient jews, first christians celebrated birthdays. Pagans would celebrate the birthday of a person in honor of the particular god of the astrological sign that person was said to be born under. That was to appease that god, and supposedly bring good luck to the individual.
In the Bible, no servant of the true God is spoken of as celebrating their birthday, not even Jesus or his apostles. The date of Jesus' birth is not even mentioned in the Bible, and nobody knows what the actual date of his birth is. The only two birthday celebrations mentioned in the Bible were done by unbelievers, worshipers of false gods, and bad things happened on those occasions. These were an Egyptian Pharoah, in which he had his chief cupbearer hung, and in Jesus' day, King Herod had John the Baptist beheaded during his own birthday party.
Given the pagan origins of birthday celebrations, and the bad light cast on such celebrations by the Bible, Jehovah's Witnesses choose not to engage in birthday celebrations.

I think Mary had a clue, what with the holy bowling ball rolling down her birth lane and all on the day. A bit bizarre to believe in a magic carpenter but not celebrate his birthday because no-one put it in as a diary entry.

thanks.