Well, gee, when someone knocks on my front door and I go to answer it, and I see that there are two people standing there, dressed to the teeth, carrying literature, and they say politely, “May we have a moment of your time?”, and I say politely, “Are you Jehovah’s Witnesses?” and usually they say politely, “Yes,” but sometimes they say politely, “No, we’re from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints”, anyway, whichever they say, I just say politely, “Oh, we already have a church”, which is true, and I ever so politely close the door in their faces.
Then they leave.
I shouldn’t imagine that my blood pressure goes up more than about 5 points during the exchange. Maybe we just have polite Bible-thumpers around here.
Just tell them you are a witch and will call Satan to steal their souls. I am a witch and we do not worship Satan, but usually these people think I do and it scares them away. It is actually quite funny
I have a friend who used to greet these people at the door in his undies, with a can of beer (empty) in one hand, and a cigarette in the other. They were usually so shocked, they’d politely leave.
Or perhaps you don’t find it an inconvenience. Aren’t you laid up with a bad leg or something? If these folks were ringing your doorbell at 3 AM, would you be upset? I generally sleep during the day, as does my husband (shift work). I’ve got arthritis, and I find it difficult to get up from a chair or from bed…which is why it DOES raise my blood pressure.
I’m quite willing and even eager to accept packages (I do a lot of mail and computer order stuff), but I’m not anxious to have missionaries ring my doorbell. And yes, I’ve put up a sign. Doesn’t work.
RM Mentock,
I doubt that I have ever been visited by Mormons. The people who have come to my door (I could guess at their religion, but that wouldn’t benefit anyone) seemed less interested in testifying and more interested in converting me. The last group, to whom I was a Buddhist, visited my next door neighbor daily for almost a week basically because she was too polite to tell them to leave. That she is a devout Eastern Orthodox did not matter.
Wow, that was just too much to read. I read almost the whole thread including quite a few various links.
From what I read though, the Dr. Laura joke letter was not debuncked, at least not to any satisfactory degree.
Here’s the so called debuncking that I read, though I’m sure there was more on this that I didn’t get to:
Sacrifices - you mean the lord no longer expects a periodic sacrifice simply because the building no longer exists.
Selling daughters - I’m not quite sure I understand this one, but I find it difficult to believe that the lord would condone anything similar to arranged marriages.
Mexican/Canadian slaves - You mean to tell me (BTW by “you” I don’t mean you Exprix, but rather some arbitrary person who believes in the dubuncking power of the refutation quoted above) that this is not done anymore because the US passed a law against it. We’re talking the Bible for christ’s sake!! No man made law is supposed to be superior to the word of the ultimate royal monarch of the universe’s. Did the lord really condone slavery at one point?
And the others are stupid too but I’m just getting so drained from all this crap.
The point was that the letter’s references were spurious at best, and zev just pretty much pointed it out. Of course, Schlessinger’s views are just as irrelevant, but if you’re going to ask questions from the Bible, at least ask ones that are relevant to her hipocrisy.
Like I said, I still found the letter funny myself.
I refuse to teke issue with anybody else’s religon or their zeal in it. But I really HATE those stupid plastic Jesus fish emblems, as well as their Darwin counterparts.
