How do you deal with unsolicited visitors with a religious agenda?

Often times, when least expected there is a ring at the door...The visitor is sharply dressed and offers to talk to you about their religious experiences...How do you deal with that?....Do you let them in and have an intelligent discussion over tea?....Do you slam the door and say take your dogma someplace else?...Most people are familiar with the Jehovahs Witnesses and the Mormons comming by...I would like to hear your experience and how you deal with it....Is it a problem in your area?...Do you welcome it?..or Do you scoff at them?....I would love to hear from you and your experiences...then I will share how I deal with it....In Light and Love...Mykhal

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Permalink Reply by PsychoSomatic on October 14, 2009 at 7:51pm: When I say all Pagan faiths, I mean that too. I clump them all together.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ada on October 14, 2009 at 7:59pm: No, I mean the response according the Brooklyn, should be "you are worshiping the devil and fire may come down from heaven to devour you, if not you WILL die at Armagedon!"; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by PsychoSomatic on October 14, 2009 at 8:12pm: LOL oh yes. I should name my third child Armagedon. I'll have to see what the guy thinks hehe; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ada on October 14, 2009 at 8:17pm: Valley of Miggideo works too; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Moonsmith on October 15, 2009 at 5:24pm: Well, if I'm gonna die at Armageddon, I'll be dead for the Afterlife and so I won't really care, now will I? And if they're gonna burn me up in their Hell, I imagine one will get used to it after a few thousand years, anyway.

I'm not sure I would like to live in their Earthly Paradise....that's just not a good enough description of it.

Will we all live in tract homes, mow the lawn on Saturday and have barbecues every Sunday? That'll be exciting for eternity....; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ada on October 15, 2009 at 9:08pm: They don't believe in an afterlife, when you're dead you're dead end of story, unless your in Jehovah's memory you stay that way. If he liked you you get ressurected or brought back to life. That would be in the "new world" with no pain, sorrow or want.
You can work lots, and learn many things; you will build your own home, grow your own food, no money no commercialism.
Get goats to keep the lawn short and fertilize it at the same time!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by helskat satanis on October 14, 2009 at 11:31pm: come to think of it i was going to write a blog on this. instead ill just tell the condensed version that i had about a week ago.jw came knocking on my door and i simply informed them (with a kind smile on my face), that i was pagan and was not interested.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Essence of The Morrigan on October 15, 2009 at 7:12am: When the JW come knocking at our door, we tell them that we are Pagans and welcome them in IF they are willing to listen to us as well as us litening to them. As a rule, they decline and if they offer any of thier litatuer I tell them to save it for someone that will read it.
Sometimes we also get Babptists and when we do I telll them the samething as I do the JW, but they are more willing to come and sit and share. When they start with what the bible says, they are soon surprised to find out that I know the bible better then they do. I am able to show them where in the bible things are that prove what they have been taught, is not what it does say.
Of course they have their excuses, but they know that it is useless to continue and they leave.
I has now gotten to the point that as any of them whether JW, Baptist or any other, they walk right on by our home and go on to the next. We laugh about it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Celticlass...FAERIE QUEEN on October 15, 2009 at 8:54am: THE JWS have no reason to listen to another. Their way IS the only way. It is drummed into their wee heads!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ada on October 15, 2009 at 8:59am: heads normal size, its only the brain that has shrunk; atrophied you know?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Celticlass...FAERIE QUEEN on October 15, 2009 at 1:54pm: YUP,until they decdide,if they do,to rehydrate it ever again!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Araelus the Stormwolf on October 15, 2009 at 2:30pm: Not just the brain,

They have no ears with which to hear, and no eyes with which to see.
No brain in their heads with which to think, their mouths speak mindlessly.
Proudly tell them your God is a women, to you this is perfectly clear.
Or that your God has horns on his head, and their pamphlets aren't welcome here.
So when they stand before you, with an idiot's smile on their face.
And you watch as their eyes they glaze over, as their heads fill up with space.
But be polite, and keep a smile on your face, a smile so sincere.
Or put up a board up outside your house, with the message
"God botherers are not welcome here."; ▶ Reply to This