Witnesses are treated harshly because they fail to identify with their marks. The OP demonstrates the complete inability to relate to others outside his group; he only sees non-Witnesses as wrong or misguided and appears to enjoy fulfilling his persecution complex a little too much. OP, no one should be shot at, not even for trespassing unless they feel their lives are in danger. An awful lot of us liberal minded folks find guns to be unnecessary hazards, but you don’t care about that, do you, because liberal minded folks might just be gay or gay friendly and that’s abhorrent to you. An awful lot of anti-gun folks are the type to fall under the heading of LBGT or volunteer at organizations interested in seeking equality. An awful lot of peace loving folks would never think of pushing their spiritual beliefs or lack thereof on anyone unbidden. An awful love of voting, pro gun-control types participate in political functions on many levels, and some serve to protect the freedoms of you and your kind. So you see? We can’t win this one, because you like too much the position you are holding, that of terminally under-appreciated persecuted minority.
Any Witness or Mormon knocking at our doors unbidden is the equivalent to any other pushy salesmen who presumes to tell us we’re doing it wrong. “Look, your yard looks terrible, you ought to be doing this our way” “Your house is a wreck, you can’t be happy and satisfied while living like oblivious slobs, let me show you what you are doing wrong” “Listen, we are convinced we are right and that you are doomed unless you behave exactly as we do.”
Religious pedlars tell each other they are providing a service, but it’s a service that comes at the cost of our privacy and our peace and quiet, and besides the annoyance, the cost of what you are selling is exorbitant else we would all be on board. We don’t want to carve ourselves off from the world; this is a wondrous place of beauty and love. We don’t want to isolate ourselves or shame our family members for believing differently. We don’t want to allow minors to suffer and perish; we want to take advantage of modern medicine. We don’t want to spend our Saturdays annoying people. We want to continue to text our friends and lovers, we want to continue enjoying oral sex, we want to occasionally masturbate and watch television and movies without the looming, invasive, disapproving oversight of judgmental elders. We occasionally want to sleep in on Sunday, or spend a Wednesday night with our families. We want to enjoy the beauty and variety of this incredible Earth, and we want to enjoy small pleasures that cause others no harm. We don’t join you because we don’t want a small group of sanctimonious old men to direct our every action and control our every thought and shame us for deviating from a rigid, unforgiving routine. We want to embrace our brothers and sisters, including those brothers who love brothers and sisters who love sisters. We want to continue to attempt to improve the political environment and living conditions for our fellow man, and for some of us that means voting, running for office, or even joining the military. We feel we are doing good work by participating in the community at large rather than operating inside a shrinking pool of insular people.
Your Satan-ruled World is a dismal, ugly place fraught with forbidden music, forbidden art, forbidden acts of love. Your World is fraught with imaginary dangers and temptations that cause no mortal harm, and many of those imagined dangers and temptations serve to bond us to our fellow humans. Your world is risky when people die for foolish reasons and denial of simple cures. Your world is exacting and rigid and missteps are punished more harshly than any Worldy prison. We don’t want any part of the metaphysical prison you inhabit. I should say “I”. I don’t want any part of your ugly, hate-filled, paranoid, small world.
