Why are there flags attached to user profiles?
Convenience & emphasize the multinational flavour of our brotherhood. The brotherhood of Jehovah’s Witnesses crosses all border including those between nations and countries, effectively wiping grudge and even hate between different people away. Flags are symbols of countries and sometimes also symbols of nations, something with strong emotional conotations for nationalists. On the other hand flags are also being commonly used in emotionally-neutral way just to visually mark that something or someone comes from somewhere. It was a dilemma whether to use flags or not, finally we decided to use them as a practical mark to quickly and clearly visualise, who comes from where, which is in our opinion useful piece of information. It also graphically represents the multinational nature of the brotherhood (Revelation 7:9). We wish to make you sure, that we really keep ourselves away from using flags to foster nationalism. If you still do not like to see the flags, we respect your feelings. We
