spread your gospel somewhere else!

[graycie]

first off, i have no problem with people which consider themselves relgious but when you want to start spreading your word of "god" stay away from my house!

about ten minutes ago, the doorbell rings and of course i'm in the bathroom. i rush to wash my hands to answer the door because i thought it was the chimney repair guy, and come to find two middle aged guys in trench coats at my door. now i've been fotunate enough over the past few years to avoid these people but this time i was caught. so one guy who is korean starts talking about these pamphlets the first one is about 'god and marriage' or something of the sort, i say "no one is married". then he whips out a 'god and raising children' pamphlet, i say "we don't have kids" i'm thinking in my head 'YES, i've shot him down twice he will leave now!' then he whips out a 'purpose of god' pamphlet and turns to the section of the 'devil'. at this point i've all ready told him we aren't religious twice and that i'm not interested. then he proceeds to ask me "if you don't mind me asking, what nationality are you?" then i say i do mind and he goes on to say "i'm korean" trying to get me to tell him. he guesses that i'm chinese which i don't confirm, and i just outright say to him i don't like giving out information to people that just come to my house. they finally leave and thanks me for even coming to the door, and i just saw them walking down the street with pair of women looking for the next house to spread the word. freak, next time i'm just going to say that i'm jewish (which i'm not)and hopefully they will leave right then.

this happened on sunday too with one of the candidates running for the school board. i was out raking leaves and this guy that i've never seen before asks me if i'm a registered voter (i'm technically "inactive" right now) i say yes, totally forgetting the inactive part. he goes on about his stuff about running for school board and asks if there any kids in the school system, i of course say no and he is like "oh" he leaves his pamphlet and goes onto the next house.

what the heck do i need to put a sign out on the front of my house saying 'tresspassers will be shot' for people to leave me alone?!!

[lopxtc]

Not to make a pun ... but amen ... I am glad I am not the only around here who thinks this way.

I had a friend make a sign that says "No Religious Solicitors Allowed, all others welcome." just to get my point across.

Aaron

[dansim]

my buddy brought some jehova(sp) witnesses inside once and sat them down on the couch went to get some coffee and came back naked wearing a bowtie with teh coffee he said hes never seen people make up excuses to leave so fast before in his life

[jdev]

Originally posted by dansim
my buddy brought some jehova(sp) witnesses inside once and sat them down on the couch went to get some coffee and came back naked wearing a bowtie with teh coffee he said hes never seen people make up excuses to leave so fast before in his life

hahahhahaha

I work with 2 jehovas witnesses. with the way I talk and think, I contsantly offend them in one way or another. i always make up scenarios for them to answer like, would you do this for a million bucks..

we were talking about something once.. and i came up with the retort of:

"its yahweh or the highway" isint it?

they didnt find that funny. me and another tech guy (whos jewish and understood it) laughed heartily.

[PyRo]

Just tell them you worship sainten and they usually go away.

[beam]

Originally posted by joey d

"its yahweh or the highway" isint it?

LOL! That's a pretty good play on words.

However, I can see how some would be offended...that name is considered a very holy name.

As for the door to door activity, I personally don't believe that that is the way to share one's faith.

[Doobie]

I just tell them I worship my Blender so I don't even need to leave the house to go to church!
They tend to leave.
I tell you what...If you come to my door, early on a Sunday morning to tell me about God......you had better be GOD!

[ASDadam]

They came to my house once on a saturday morning and woke me up which didn't make me happy. Of course when us guys typically wake up theres a bit of morning wood. I look out the window see who it is and decide to mess with em. I walk to the door with my barn door open, swing open the door and ask "Can i help you?" They looked like scared little children and go "We're just passing out pamplets about our faith." They pass me one and then quickly walk away.

[PyRo]

What do you mean with your barn door open?

[ramennoodles]

i am a i do worship god, and they are still annoying to me, they think that since i'm not going to their church that i'm going to hell, i'm like meh, maybe. I don't like religion, it is stupid, its the cause of too many deaths for my taste.

[ASDadam]

Hahaha that one got a laugh out of me...Good one Pyro...
Its when you leave your button or whatever of your boxers undone and you're swaying in the breeze.

[shartley]

[Konigballer]

I'm the same way as you gracie, I dont care if what people believe in just as long as they dont come yackin' to me about it.

I cant stand people who cant think of themselves as anything but a label of what they believe in or support. That go's for anything too, like people who basically come across as "Hi I'm Jack, I'm a Christian" or "Hi I'm Nick, I'm a Punk" or whatever religious, social, or political group they associate themselves with.

Thats so lame, theres so much more to people than just some self assigned label of whatever form of system they choose to allie themselves with. Thats the most 2-dimentional way of looking at yourself or someone else. It also makes it even easier to judge another person on their looks, beliefs, or lifestyle because of your own inability to think for yourself.

Ah whatever, at least they didnt go on a tyrate to you about living in sin or something.

[Miscue]

My family on my dad's side is LDS. My grandma was heavy into it. Everytime we told her where our new place was, the missionaries would come... ALL the time. They would call, ALL the time. My dad used to do the same thing when he was a kid, and I have many LDS friends so we kinda just bare with it. Grandma died though... and the missionaries don't come anymore because they don't have our new address.

But yeah, I agree. I respect people's beliefs, but I do not appreciate it when they tell you that you are wrong for not joining their club.

This reminds me of something kinda funny. An old co-worker was heavy into this stuff, would bring a Bible with him all the time to work. Recently, someone of some other faith would not take off some religious garb when he was going to take her picture for a student ID. He argued with her, and ended up calling her religion stupid. Guess what shows up on front page of school newspaper... with RACISM and stuff plastered across it.

He didn't mean anything by it, he's just not bright enough to realize how bad that was to say.

[Wc Keep]

i know that when it gets cold jehovas witnesses go around with their kids and have their kids go without jackets so you take pity on them and let them in. but for some reason the mormons have it out for me........... and i dont care even if she is a cute mormon.............