Bible bashers get on my wick!!
Posted 27th June 2012 at 09:56 PM by Gary Compton
Updated 30th June 2012 at 06:27 PM by Gary Compton
Updated 30th June 2012 at 06:27 PM by Gary Compton
So here I was minding my own business. It was 9am and as well as having a nice cup of coffee on the go, I was burning some waste in my garden.
Someone knocked at the door.
Well I am one of these people who hate unannounced callers, so I opened the door and stared at a Captain Manaring type who stood there with his wife. He held a book in his hand.
I glanced at it and I could see it was God related. He started rabbitting on about his religion and how they could save me. I interrupted him and said, "Excuse me. I am a Devil worshipper, I have a fire going in the back garden. Have you any souls I could burn.' I laughed in a Vincent Price style.
The man looked at me, then his wife and made a sharp exit.
I'm not nice am I?
Keep your religion to yourself, I say, it's a personal thing.
Someone knocked at the door.
Well I am one of these people who hate unannounced callers, so I opened the door and stared at a Captain Manaring type who stood there with his wife. He held a book in his hand.
I glanced at it and I could see it was God related. He started rabbitting on about his religion and how they could save me. I interrupted him and said, "Excuse me. I am a Devil worshipper, I have a fire going in the back garden. Have you any souls I could burn.' I laughed in a Vincent Price style.
The man looked at me, then his wife and made a sharp exit.
I'm not nice am I?
Keep your religion to yourself, I say, it's a personal thing.
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I had two Mormons tell me I could live forever in Paradise.
'Why would I want to live forever?' I replied. 'That's the worst thing you could wish on anyone.'
It really freaked them out, like I'd just offered to make them a rhinoceros smoothie or something. They'd genuinely never considered eternal life could be a bad thing.Posted 28th June 2012 at 08:12 AM by J-WO
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I think they might have been Mormons as well. Don't get me wrong - I do believe in God and certain religions are a good thing but not when its shoved in your face or people continually preach to you.Posted 28th June 2012 at 08:37 AM by Gary Compton - I look through the doorviewer and then answer in the nude if I think it's Mormons.Posted 29th June 2012 at 05:37 PM by JoanDrake
- I think it varies a lot. I had a very nice pair of Dutchmen (that sounds rather, er, racier than it was) doorknocking, and we had a brief and nice chat. When it was obvious I didn't care about religion we just discussed the Netherlands and the British weather.
Another time there was a crone and her disciple whose look of contempt when I said I had thought about God and didn't believe in him was rather depressing.
Mind you, they weren't as bad as the charity doorknocker I had. An uninspiring, holier-than-thou attempt at emotional blackmail is just about the best way to prevent me from even considering supporting a charity. At least the Biblical doorknockers weren't begging.
[I do buy from the RNLI and Help for Heroes shops as often as possible, so it's not an anti-charity point, just an anti-emotional blackmail point].Posted 29th June 2012 at 09:17 PM by thaddeus6th
Updated 29th June 2012 at 09:18 PM by thaddeus6th (Dire grammar) -
maybe we should start a charity to stop emotional blackmail...Posted 3rd July 2012 at 03:50 AM by hopewrites
