Religious Nutters At The Door - What Do You Do?

wik

I havnt had any JW at my door for a while now... Last time they came the chap started on about God etc... and I said I am sorry but I really cant cope with religion of any kind.

I may not believe, but I have come to see that some people need to.

I do watch and listen to programmes about various religions, and can see that some have good points. But its just not for me

Loz01

Tell them you're atheist/gay and they will probably scram

thegirlintheattic

"Sorry, not interested" and shut the door.

thatlemming

When we first got our student flat they came once. I'm a biologist, my best friend and flatmate is a physicist and my other flatmate is a chemist. We all met at debate night.

We had an 'interesting' chat and they never came back.

jatos

Religious nuts - so irritating!

I use to be one myself, I must confess. Now I look at them and pity them to be honest.

shellsuit

I don't even answer the door.

If I see 2 women and a young girl at the door (through the window, or spy hole) with leaflets in their hands, I ignore them.

I think it's downright rude to pester people on their doorsteps about religion of all things!

laurel7172

A few years ago, I opened the door to some missionaries.

They asked me about my beliefs. I told them I used to attend the C of E, but it values were now so adrift from mine that I no longer felt morally able to promote its values to my children (true, as it happens).

Their ears pricked up. Yes, the traditional churches were certainly letting people down. What was my problem, exactly?

The gay bishops issue, I said.

Their eyes brightened. They leaned in closer. Oh, yes...that's a terrible situation, they tutted.

Quite, I said. I absolutely despise homophobia.

I don't have a very long garden path, but they were practically sprinting by the time they reached the end of it. And they haven't been back since. Somewhere in nutterville there's a map with my house outlined in red and DAMNED written in shaky capital letters.

And if they ever do come back-as they're so frightened of homosexuality that they run from a straight woman with sympathy for gay priests-I shall probably invent a wife.

nearlyrich

We have a sign and it usually works, when it doesn't work I just ask them to leave and point out the sign.

claire16c

jatos wrote: »

Religious nuts - so irritating!

I use to be one myself, I must confess. Now I look at them and pity them to be honest.

Did you actually do the door knocking too?

*max*

There's always threads like that, and you get people claiming they've come up with clever and witty things to say (same thing with cold callers!). I don't believe a word of it.

It's never happened to me, but I imagine I'd say "I'm sorry, I'm not interested, but thank you" and close the door. I do the same with sales calls on the phone.

There's no need to be rude or sarcastic, these people are just doing what they are meant to, whether you believe in it or not.