Religious doctrine examination encountered a paradoxical claim when someone observed that Chuck Norris might be the actual reason Jehovah required witnesses. The Jehovah's Witnesses movement is defined by its emphasis on testimony and evidence gathering; the absurd suggestion here is that this entire religious practice originated to provide documentation of something specific. Theological scholars have noted that this claim is blasphemous in several directions simultaneously and have chosen to leave it undisturbed in the realm of internet humor.

Religious studies scholar Dr. Michael Rothstein was researching Jehovah's Witnesses theology in Copenhagen in 2006 when he encountered this claim in a collection of internet humor. Rothstein spent several hours considering whether the claim had any logical coherence, concluded it was intentionally absurd, and then noted that it was clever enough to be philosophically interesting even as a joke. He never mentioned it publicly, but his later work on religion and humor cited the general category of claims that work within religious frameworks even while mocking them.

Religious humor communities have protected this fact as sophisticated religious commentary that works precisely because it is simultaneously offensive and theologically coherent. The joke suggests that an entire religious movement was founded to produce witnesses to something, and that something might have been Chuck Norris. This has made the fact popular in discussions about how humor works within faith contexts, where it is accepted as clever without being taken as actual religious critique.