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

[ChooksinChoppers]

This is not meant towards you laurajean but to all the other posters who had to have 38 pages of religous advice to give to the OP...Do you realise you might as well ALL be knocking on her door? enough already!

 

[redhen]

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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.

Ding Ding Ding!! We have a winner!!

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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Because these idiots who come to our house aren't JW - here at least, they respect the No Trespassing sign and we've never seen them. The CLDS came up ONCE and got DH who told them the sign said No Trespassing and they were included in that, they left, that group hasn't come back.

It's the local church who wants to save everyone who isn't EXACTLY them. It's at least once a week. They've been told about the sign. They do not care. We aren't them, we are wrong, we must be saved. Telling them DH is Jewish doesn't stop them, they need to save us all the more.

We've called the police. Doesn't stop them. At all. After all, we are wicken heathens who are going to burn in the eternal fires of hell. Other savers come back, only now it's the higher ones because clearly how horrible and heathenist we are for calling the police on their good soldiers.

We've tried ignoring them at the door. They sit and knock and knock and knock for over THREE HOURS.

They don't want to be respectful and reasonable, I do not have to be on my property.

So now instead of trying to be reasonable with them, I let the dogs act like aggressive mean beasts who could get past me in no time flat. DH and the kids won't answer the door. They don't want to speak to me long enough to spread their lies because the dogs may get out.

For the record, the sheriff says by now if they don't stop, we are welcome to let the dogs outside when they come up the drive.

 

[DuckLady]

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