Religious Proselytizers

[Shadowman]

Do religious proselytizers come to your home?  If so what types?  How do your respond?  This forenoon a car pulled into my sister's place which is now next door practically and I saw a couple of people around her door.  I knew she was not home so walked over there and it was some Jehovah's Witnesses. They apparently did not stop at my place so maybe I am on their "Do Not Call" list due to previous year's encounters. I am always friendly to them and they usually ask what church one belongs to and if one reads the bible. I shocked them a bit by telling them I was not religious but on occasion have gone to the Universalist church in town (a sure sign of heathenism) if they feature a good speaker. A man stayed in the car with the motor running which is standard MO for them and two women spoke to me. When she brought her Bible up from her side I had the Clint Eastwood feeling of "Make my day."  I replied that I was familiar with the bible and yes I had read it. They claimed a literal interpretation and I pointed out the Bible claimed  only 1/7th of the Earth is covered water but in fact about 70% is covered (2 Esdrus 6:42). She shrugged that off. I pointed out that Joshua 10: 12-13 claims the Sun and Moon stood still (or the Earth depending on how you spin it) and that the laws of physics would have left an empirical trace of this and likely astronomical destruction would have occurred and other historical documents from other parts of the world would have corroborated it.  She called that a "miracle." But as the woman spoke she actually thumped her bible and I thought of Crestofwaves' comment on bible thumpers.  It is descriptive though.  Alas, another season and I still was not saved and they moved on to the neighbors who I know to be church-going Teapartiers so maybe they had more agreement there. 

[blithe spirit]

Thats right...now I can keep to my heathen ways with no guilty conscience.

[Wayne Goodwin]

I worked with a Jehovah witness for around 5 years . He never once pushed his belief on me or any other . Was always a good friend . I'm never rude with anyone that comes to my door . If it would happen to be a bill collector i just shut ta door . Now if the Jehovah is a pretty lady she can come in house and stay a while , might even take a picture of her ...

[Mickchick]

Not in years, but when they did, I just said I wasn't interested in discussing religion with them and closed the door.  One of the guys I worked with had just moved to the area, and his wife was at home alone with the two babies when a knock came at the door of the rural area home they were renting.  She looked out and saw two men, called her husband and asked what she should do.  He told, answer the door and see what they want!  The next thing he heard was the unmistakable sound of a shell being racked into a shotgun and then his wife yelling "What do you want?  Go away!"  They never had another visit from the Jehovah's Witnesses (who dropped their pamphlets in their hurry to get off the porch). 

[Snagg]

I once stood at my front door and calmly and methodically debated a JW until he became so enraged that he screamed at me to "shut the hell up".

Which is all good clean fun. But, I'll repeat a story I told here on TBD years ago: My brother was living in Seattle, and was working at a dinner club and it's 3:00 a.m. bar. He usually got home around 4:00 a.m.
One night, he was coming down with something, a flu or whatever, but finished his shift - Pretty miserable. He staggered home and collapsed in his bed. Three hours later, his doorbell started ringing. He tried to ignore it, but they kept it up for 15 minutes. He finally stumbled downstairs, opened the door and there was a JW, all bright and shiny and rarin' to save a soul or two.

My brother summoned as much politeness as he could and begged off, explaining his illness and late hours. The JW took this as an insult, and refused to get off my brother's porch. The JW then stuck his foot in my brother's door, tried to force his way into the foyer and poked my brother in the chest with a bible.

My brother is a former Marine, who also made a little extra money giving private lessons in aikido. He could have seriously damaged this moron, so it makes one reflect on the arrogance of religious cultists, that they will never even suspect how severely they could have been made to pay for their presumptuousness, but were fortunate enough to only get this instead: My brother calmly stuck his finger down his throat and puked all over the JW.

THAT got the point across. The JW leapt back and shrieked, spun and bolted off the porch, never to be seen again. And my brother felt just a teensy bit better, to boot.

I ask you, did he go too far ? Me, I think not.