How annoyed are you if someone attempts to convert you?

Yeah - I asked once and was told that if I followed certain rules I could qualify as a Noahide. (Though I don’t remember if he said one way or the other if that would make me just as righteous.) But even then - why not give me a pamphlet on how to be a successful Noahide?? :frowning:

I have a best friend fundamentalist Christian. We go back and forth on this all the time. He tells me that I need to pray and accept Jesus into my heart and then I will understand.

I voted not mad at all bro because there is pretty much nothing that anybody can say that could convince me to become a believer. It’s like getting mad at someone who tells you that Santa Claus is real. How can you get mad when it’s so damn funny.

As long as they take “No thanks, not interested”, I don’t care. After that, it depends on how pushy they get. Fortunately I can count on one hand the times I’ve been approached by proselytizers. We used to get the occassional JW, but if you didn’t answer the door, they’d just drop The Watchtower and leave.

Telemarketers, on the other hand, can go and masturbate with a rusty chainsaw.

I’m only annoyed because it invariably happens with someone who is extremely attractive and I think they are flirting with me, but then I discover they are being friendly in order to give me the Good News. They also always send the most ridiculously cute Mormon boys to my door. This world ain’t fair, I tell ya.

It would be faintly insulting, since most of the Noahide Laws are things like “don’t kill people or steal stuff”. :smiley: I imagine most folks getting this list would not find it particularly edifying - if they were at all interested in being good folks, they probably don’t go around killing or stealing already.

There is one wierd one about not eating animals while they are still alive … and the stuff about worshiping idols and the like. I guess those could be news.

I do actually know what a lorry is, though it depend on how they go about it. I don’t mind a single preaching at, but if they start not taking not interested then I get miffed. If it continues, I will get ruder and ruder about it until it is all the way up to HR and the next step is outright yelling NO at them at the top of my lungs in some embarrassingly public venue.

If someone offers to pray for me, then I accept with grace and dignity - just because it isn’t my thing doesn’t mean I am unappreciative of being thought of.

Noahide laws:
No idolatry
No murder
No theft
No sexual immorality (no rape, incest, beastiality)
No blasphemy
No eating the flesh of animals that are still living
Create/participate in legal systems

Think you can handle it?

It just doesn’t happen here at least not in a work/social environment. Very occasionally I’ll get a couple of Mormon missionaries or Jehovah’s Witnesses at the door, but they are unfailingly polite and can take a hint. I’m always polite back - it’s no skin off my nose, and it’s part of their belief system to try, so meh.

One time I was waiting for a bus next to two young American Mormons, and they started tried introductory thing. They quickly got it that I wasn’t interested, and then we spent the half-hour journey chatting about the places they’d been, impressions of Scotland etc. They seemed like nice lads who were enjoying their time away.

I like the way Franklin Ajaye handles it.

I’m religious, by [sic] I don’t proselytise.

Amused, then saddened.

It just wouldn’t be one of my polls without a glaring typo.

I mostly just ignore it. The Clams got to my brother when he was in a sort of unstable place and ended up sucking up all his money and otherwise ruining his life. His disappeared and we did not hear from him for three decades, until dad died and the estate had to be handled. So I am kind of annoyed with their BS.

There was a guy at work who wanted to talk about Jesus, I said, “Not on my shift. Just keep your bible in your pants when you’re on the floor.” When it interferes with getting the job done, it needs to be suppressed, I see it as equivalent to any other type of workplace harassment.

I have a couch covered in Noahide.

I probably started off at a one after I got put down my book, got out of my chair, walked to the door, opened it and discovered a missionary there determined to save me. Once they inform me of their mission I tell them I’m not interested and close the door and go back to what I was doing before I was interrupted. I don’t let it go farther than that. On the other hand, when friends of mine who know I’m Jewish try to bring me to Jesus I start off at 3.

I wish it was multiple choice. I’m religious and don’t proselytize, BUT still get annoyed at people who try to convert me to their sect instead. Doesn’t happen much, but still, it’s a 2 for me when it does.

I live in the Bible Belt.

“Where do you attend church?” (note that it isn’t DO you attend, it’s WHERE - and “church” most emphatically does NOT include temple, mosque, or coven circle. ) Meh - it’s the south, it’s technically polite conversation. Duck and change the subject.

Church flyers stuffed in our door. (first off, why stuff the thing in our FRONT door - do you not live in the south? Do you not know that thing’s decorative?) A bit bemused, but they fit nicely in the recycle bin, and they only show up every month or so. I find it amusing that the flyers have appeared from three different neighbors that haven’t actually bothered to ever stop outside and introduce themselves while we’re all working in our yards.

“Do you KNOW JEEEEZUS, SISTER?!?” GTFAway from me, crazy person. Not miffed, more… vastly uncomfortable. These are the people who don’t accept a demurral, or a change in subject, and keep on pestering you. Most recently at a conference in NC, a bag lady was determined to SAVE all of us godless librarians during our lunch breaks. I was busy reading the Hobbit when she accosted me, and I startled both of us when I looked up at her face, said “Pardon me, but I was reading, and I would prefer to continue reading for the remainder of my break” and turned my back on her. She prayed in tongues over me for a few moments, then went and pestered a couple who weren’t as assertive as I was.

Intellectually, I can respect that they feel like they’re trying to save people, but emotionally, I’ve got a lot of baggage with the institution and the more rabid members thereof.

I’m kind of annoyed. I used to enjoy a good religious discussion with those fine evangelists, but over the years their “good news” turns my stomach so much I fight saying ugly things. It only makes me lightly bonkers though.

Me too. I think to myself “bring it on, you ghost-loving nut”. Did this a few times in college where the guy never heard of Pascal’s Wager, and did this once to some Mormons at my house that I annoyed and never came back

Lightly bonkers.

I say yeh yeh yeh, God and shit, heard it before. For over 30 years. You get 10 seconds, aaand go…

After the ten-count I slam the door/walk away.