Religious Nutters At The Door - What Do You Do?

ERICS_MUM

Bangton wrote: »

I'm never rude...they are people after all. I just tell them no thanks and they leave. Never had any hassle or religious people standing their ground and insisting I listen !

Same for me. Only once have I had more persistent callers but I told them I was a blood donor (true), which shut them up straight away.

sammyjammy

I generally don't answer the door unless I am expecting a parcel or a visitor but if I happened to I find that making sure my crucifix is visible and telling them I am a Roman Catholic has them departing pretty quickly.

de_g.

Hah! I've been one of those people knocking on doors. Not religion, but politics, which tends to make some people very angry.

And to annoy you all more, I take great delight in ignoring the 'no callers' signs, though we do mark people as against and leave them in future if they're hostile. We also have the pleasure of being able to ignore the TPS - canvassing support in politics is excluded as it is research by telephone, provided you don't then try and persuade people to vote a particular way.

SueC_2

de_g. wrote: »

Hah! I've been one of those people knocking on doors. Not religion, but politics, which tends to make some people very angry.

And to annoy you all more, I take great delight in ignoring the 'no callers' signs, though we do mark people as against and leave them in future if they're hostile. We also have the pleasure of being able to ignore the TPS - canvassing support in politics is excluded as it is research by telephone, provided you don't then try and persuade people to vote a particular way.

Sounds like a call to arms to me. Let the battle commence............

aileth

Well, I have a friend who had a pretty bad experience coming from a JW family. I didn't know her when this all happened, but she told me about it.

Her parents were JW's and were about to disown her when she got pregnant out of wedlock. She ended up marrying the man who she was pregnant to just so she didn't lose all contact with her parents, and they then snubbed her new hubby because he wasn't a JW.

Few years later, she divorced him as he turned into a fairly aggressive alcoholic and now they won't talk to her at all, or her son.

When they were together, they refused to send him any birthday presents or christmas presents, and he was too young to understand why not. To him he just thought his grandparents didn't care for him as they were the only ones who didn't send even a card.

Naf

paddedjohn wrote: »

Wow, all that evidence... But still not a shred that Beiber has any manly bits...

Rev

Keen_Young_Learner wrote: »

For us on the receiving end, it is absolutely unacceptable to do anything less than smile and apologise, along with your 'it's not for me' statement. These people are human beings, and are just doing what they believe is right. Being polite and civil to them is simply a matter of human decency.

I agree 100% that any form of attack is completely and utterly unacceptable. I am in no way condoning it and hope anyone who was scum enough to do that was prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

But I also think it's 100% unacceptable to knock on someone's door and preach at them. Then preach some more when they say they're not interested. Quite a few times being polite and civil has just been seen as 'an opening' to preach. So whilst I'm never abusive I will return he rudeness I think I am being given. I say I'm not interested. When that doesn't work I happily tell them to bog off and shut the door.

I'm a human being too, the time before last some JW knocked as the district nurse arrived to give my mum a blood transfusion. I told them I wasn't interested and had to go as the nurse had just arrived. Soon as I mentioned blood transfusion they were outraged and trying to talk me out of it. My mother was dying of leukaemia. Those transfusions gave us extra time with her. Yet they'd have had me deny her those, and deny myself time with my mother. Despite the fact I was furious I was still polite. I didn't call them insensitive idiotic prats like I wanted too. I didn't tell them to eff off. Like I wanted too. Just quite politely told them I'd take a few extra months with my mother over any religion and pitty anyone who wouldn't do the same.

endure

de_g. wrote: »

Hah! I've been one of those people knocking on doors. Not religion, but politics, which tends to make some people very angry.

And to annoy you all more, I take great delight in ignoring the 'no callers' signs, though we do mark people as against and leave them in future if they're hostile. We also have the pleasure of being able to ignore the TPS - canvassing support in politics is excluded as it is research by telephone, provided you don't then try and persuade people to vote a particular way.

I introduce people like you to my dog. You won't get any great delight out of him

zaksmum

I just tell them I have my own beliefs and no wish to discuss them at the door, thank you very much.

dawn_rose

Invite em in for a cup of tea i have questions to ask?