How do you handle unwanted evangelists who knock at your door?

[justuschickens59]

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This is PERFECT and exactly how I feel !!

I love the "Wheel of the Year" plaque. I have that hanging by my door inside the house. I always wear my pentagram pendant. My husband carved this and we are going to hang it on the porch by the front door.

We have a sign posted at the top of our driveway that says "no trespassing, no soliciting, and no sharing of religious beliefs" but they choose to ignore it. When they knock on the door, I tell them, through the door, to leave immediately, do not leave any literature, and that I have already called the Sheriff.

 

[chickendiva25]

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Sounds like something my dad would do

 

[KristyHall]

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This is PERFECT and exactly how I feel !!

I love the "Wheel of the Year" plaque. I have that hanging by my door inside the house. I always wear my pentagram pendant. My husband carved this and we are going to hang it on the porch by the front door.

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa289/finnnoodle/largecherryRavenPent.jpg

We have a sign posted at the top of our driveway that says "no trespassing, no soliciting, and no sharing of religious beliefs" but they choose to ignore it. When they knock on the door, I tell them, through the door, to leave immediately, do not leave any literature, and that I have already called the Sheriff.

that is stunning. do you two sell your items you make?

 

[HarlansHollowFarms]

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This is PERFECT and exactly how I feel !!

I love the "Wheel of the Year" plaque. I have that hanging by my door inside the house. I always wear my pentagram pendant. My husband carved this and we are going to hang it on the porch by the front door.

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa289/finnnoodle/largecherryRavenPent.jpg

We have a sign posted at the top of our driveway that says "no trespassing, no soliciting, and no sharing of religious beliefs" but they choose to ignore it. When they knock on the door, I tell them, through the door, to leave immediately, do not leave any literature, and that I have already called the Sheriff.

I love it, he did a lovely job!

 

[mandelyn]

I just politely tell them that I'm as firm in my beliefs as they are in theirs, and there is no swaying going on. While my 100 pound girl Shepherd is right behind my knee telling them what she thinks. That's the only time she's allowed to investigate who's at the door. When it's the pizza man, she must sit 15 feet back quietly. So, we exchange pleasantries and off they go. I haven't seen them since and the church is a block away.

 

[justuschickens59]

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This is PERFECT and exactly how I feel !!

I love the "Wheel of the Year" plaque. I have that hanging by my door inside the house. I always wear my pentagram pendant. My husband carved this and we are going to hang it on the porch by the front door.

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa289/finnnoodle/largecherryRavenPent.jpg

We have a sign posted at the top of our driveway that says "no trespassing, no soliciting, and no sharing of religious beliefs" but they choose to ignore it. When they knock on the door, I tell them, through the door, to leave immediately, do not leave any literature, and that I have already called the Sheriff.

that is stunning. do you two sell your items you make?

Thanks Kristy - My husband is an artist and does beautiful work. I don't have an artistic bone in my body - I just ooh and ahh over his work, LOL. He has a lot of work in some Pagan shops across the country and he does sell his work.

Here is a website from one of the Pagan shops - scroll down until you see "Alexzander V. Dare" (my husband's artist name)
http://wingsofdreamsshop.com/artists/

and here is his website (though his website hasn't been updated in quite a while) http://dragonwynddesigns.com/

 

[bullyforme]

I will tell them I have my own doctrine and I'm not interested at which point they will usually either ask if they can recite to me a quick bible quote or give me a pamphlet, which I always let them do. No need to be rude, I've NEVER had an overly zealous or pushy person come to my door. They're usually polite and brief once you tell them straight away you're not interested.

 

[Q9]

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Well if you have studied as you say, then you should know just how much of the Christian religion was stolen from older pagan religions, including the virgin birth and the resurrection. All occurred before Jesus. IMHO, religion is a comfort mechanism, to deal with the unknown and the loss of loved ones. We don't know why that tornado hit our house but not the neighbor. We don't know why our perfectly healthy mother was taken from us at an early age by a horrible brain tumor. But if you believe in Christianity (along with some other religions), it's ok, because she is in a "better place" now, and we'll see her again someday. And that "feels" good. So why wouldn't that be popular? It's not a mystery why religion exists, or why so many believe.

Always keep one thing in mind about the religion you so strongly and completely believe in...had you been taken at birth and raised in another part of the world (Isreal, India, China, Afghanistan, etc..), there is very real chance that you're beliefs would be drastically different. Shows you how geographically driven religion can be.

Read "I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist." Written by Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek. There's more to religion, especially Christianity, than you think, and it really does take a crapload more faith to be an atheist. Translation: you really expect anyone to believe that somehow matter/energy had existed for an infinite amount of time in violation of the laws of physics? And then exploded, forming the universe? And then, by a freak chance, a perfectly-sized planet formed around a perfectly sized star, with a moon just the right size to give it the amazing tides, at just the right distance from the sun, in the habitable zone of the Milky Way galaxy? Even better, we're supposed to believe that by sheer luck this planet had loads of H2O, in addition to an atmosphere with just the right levels of oxygen and other gases? And then, somehow, some way, nonliving chemicals happend to combine in just the right way to form a living cell, which is so complicated and fine-tuned that it makes any of our machines look primitive? THAT, my friend, takes a lot of faith.

 

[bullyforme]

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That's why so many people are agnostic, it takes guts to be an atheist. I'm usually pretty annoyed by agnostics. Either believe, or don't...get off the fence, you know?

 

[welsummerchicks]

I am not sure that science and religion are meant to be put in a head to head battle in the professional wrestling arena.