This study discusses Jehovah's Witnesses' utilization of the endangered Mexican Oaxaca Chontal language, as imposed by the Watch Tower Society institution. This study presents the notion of the globalizing textual community, in order to explicate how religious identity can suppress national, ethnic, and linguistic identities. A central device of this community is the “pure language” discourse, which makes language choice inapposite even as it offers a guarantee for comprehensive translation.