Do you not take that as a marvellous opportunity for a live debate in your own front room over a mug of tea?! I would without hesitation let them in and put the kettle on, even break open some biscuits. I am in the UK and we very very rarely have anyone knocking at the door, twice in 30 years if I remember.Let's face it, hitting them head on with reason and logic and they'lll be gone before you know it. So why are they so bad?
2007-06-08 09:11:57 · 28 answers · asked by Prophet Of Truth 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have really chuckled at these responses!
2007-06-08 09:23:32 · update #1
I let them in once but then they kept coming back once a week even when I clearly was not going to be converted, so it must have been my biscuits.
2007-06-08 09:57:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the US, we tend to be a little leery of letting total strangers in the house.
Depending on those knocking on your door, you probably won't get anywhere towards changing their minds, though. Not Atheist here, but I've had discussions with those of opposing faiths who felt it their duty to convert the "heathen."
Pointed out once to a Jehovah's Witness who wanted to know why I & my fellows weren't out there preaching the Word of God that the Bible states that everybody has different gifts, & not all are meant to teach or preach (one of Paul's letters to Corinthians? Colossians?--the actual citation escapes me at the moment). All I got back was a blank stare & a slightly mumbled response that that wasn't in her Bible.
Told another would-be evangelist that no, I didn't want to read his little pamphlet, & got a blank look again. I told him I was perfectly happy with my faith & had no intention to change. When I told him what faith I followed, he decided that it was all right, too. Well, thank you for your kind condescension! I think he really did want to find fault in it somewhere & couldn't. I still think I should have told him something he would have found outlandish--like Wiccan. Snicker (picturing his eyes bugging out).
My boyfriend has had his sister-in-law's family pray for the conversion of the heathen during grace (he's Episcopalian; they're highly conservative, Latin-Mass-type, devout Catholics; naturally he feels it's aimed in part at him).
The point is that those who feel obligated to share their faith & try to sway you into conversion in my experience are not open to another point of view; not even that their way isn't the right way for you.
I may have gotten a little off point here...
Now if you meant, they'll run away from pure logic, pure reason, & a sincere lack of belief about any god at all, why yes, they undoubtedly will!
2007-06-08 09:55:07 · answer #2 · answered by Amethyst 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did once ask some Mormon guys in because they looked so earnest. They told me I could be so much happier if I was one of them and believed in Jesus and all that. I said "I don't want to be any happier than I am right now." They were literally left speechless and then said that no one else had ever said that to them before. And then they left with a very puzzled look on their faces.
2007-06-08 09:26:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes, yeah, I've actually sat down and talked to some of these people, just to amuse myself with the psychology. If they catch me in a bad mood, though, I'll simply take the opportunity of their unsolicited intrusion to slam the door in their well-scrubbed faces.
2007-06-08 09:15:56 · answer #4 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
They leave but they just go bother someone else and send a different set to knock on your door. If you could actually get through to them it would be a different thing.
2007-06-08 09:16:03 · answer #5 · answered by RU SRS? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have a point, I think I'll invite them in and discuss Matthew Alper's 'The God Part of the Brain' as well as Dawkin's 'The God Delusion' from now on. After all, if they want me to read their book, they should be willing to return the gesture, don't you think?
2007-06-08 09:16:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because I don't have the time or patience to walk them through a logical thought process. I suppose if I had nothing better to do I might let them in.
2007-06-08 09:14:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
A lot of them don't wanna hear what you have to say, it goes in one ear and out the other, and vice versa, so why bother? It's especially annoying when people are trying to sleep!
2007-06-08 09:18:59 · answer #8 · answered by Moxie! 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Early. Saturday. Morning.
*cries*
2007-06-08 09:15:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
I think you should find out where they meet up (usually a Hall of Jehova's Witnesses, or something like that) - and find ANY of them who is willing to take your challenge...
In fact, I think I just might do that this weekend ;)
2007-06-08 10:49:16 · answer #10 · answered by kr_toronto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋