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Experiences With Religious Door Knockers
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Since moving to a high rise with limited access, I no longer get the religious door knockers/God Gang trying to sell me Jesus. Pity really as I used to enjoy trying to engage them in conversation and watching them back up the path as I quoted chapter and verse back at them..
(As an ex evangelical, it NEVER leaves you)
Most of the time I actually had a desire to debate/learn/exchange ideas with them but the feeling was not mutual...they just wanted to convert people and had no interest in other points of view.
I was never one for shutting the door in the face of someone who believed that they were doing good. Much rather have a mutual conversation.
However one afternoon we had a family gathering at my mums when the JW's were doing the rounds. I was sent to the door to see them off.
I politely asked them if they could come back the following week as we were in the middle of an occultic rite and were about to sacrifice a cockerel.
They actually apologised for disturbing us (at an OAP's bungalow) and promised to return the following week
(never did return. EVER)
Strange that! They promised as well.
Any stories re God Gang Door Knockers?
(As an ex evangelical, it NEVER leaves you)
Most of the time I actually had a desire to debate/learn/exchange ideas with them but the feeling was not mutual...they just wanted to convert people and had no interest in other points of view.
I was never one for shutting the door in the face of someone who believed that they were doing good. Much rather have a mutual conversation.
However one afternoon we had a family gathering at my mums when the JW's were doing the rounds. I was sent to the door to see them off.
I politely asked them if they could come back the following week as we were in the middle of an occultic rite and were about to sacrifice a cockerel.
They actually apologised for disturbing us (at an OAP's bungalow) and promised to return the following week
(never did return. EVER)
Strange that! They promised as well.
Any stories re God Gang Door Knockers?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.When I lived in Essex we had regular infestations of Mormons, one incredibly hot summers day two older men turned up with a young lad no more than 10 he was nearly fainting from the heat. I asked them in, offered then a cold drink and read them the riot act for putting a child at risk of heat exhaustion. As far as I was concerned they might as well have beaten the child. My opinion on their worship of a so called loving God wasn't exactly tempered with kindness. I let them out but advised them I would be reporting them to social services.
they can't get in our place as we have security doors, and a gate on each balcony, though somehow one day two guys must have tail gated their way in with another tenant, and did bang on the gate, i was polite and told them wasn;t a believer, they did go away after a while, but think they must have gone to every flat.. and tried it on with the other tenants.
My parents lived on the top floor of a low rise block of flats and weren’t usually bothered by unwanted callers, but one time a JW knocked and mother was so impressed that he walked up 3 flights of stairs that she took a book to look at. It remained unread on the sideboard for a long time and no one ever came back to collect it
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