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Were the people on this street right to act in the way they did?
Personally (as an atheist, as are many others in D&D) I always ... (skip to 10:24) rather than dismissing them outright.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHpiXmPWPwkThis is a group from a church at the end of my street. Apparently they have been grouping in front of a [lesbian/gay] couple's house and reading their bible loudly for the past 7 years. They may have also driven another couple from the area as well by doing the same thing. Tonight most of our neighbours came out and were successful in getting them to leave. The people who go to that church don't even live in our area! Police came by shortly thereafter.
Personally (as an atheist, as are many others in D&D) I always ... (skip to 10:24) rather than dismissing them outright.
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Indeed.
Personally, based on the video, it looks like the situation was resolved without an overabundance of conflict. It certainly wasn't amicable, but the neighborhood asked them to leave and they left.
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Which people? If you're talking about the religious fanatics, no, they weren't right when they decided to harass someone. If you're talking about the neighbors, yes, they were right when they asked the fanatics to leave.
I think it's morally right and I wish more neighbourhoods were like this. They banded together to peacefully remove a nuiscance from their area.
The correct way to handle this is for the gay couple whose house they're doing this in front of to get together with a bunch of their LGBT friends, and show up in front of their church on Sunday morning dressed in their Gay Pride best, and make out while the religious fanatics are trying to take their children to church.
Bonus points if they live in an open carry state and show up armed to the teeth.
this thread was over by the 3rd post
I was gonna say that the gay couple should respond by making out right in front of them, but I suppose this would work as well.
Religion is a cancer upon the human mind. Why can't people just be happy with worshipping their imaginary friend and leave the rest of us alone?
You must not live near any Mormon or Jehova's Witnesses hotspots. I grew up Mormon, and at 18 we were expected to head off somewhere in the states or abroad to knock on doors and spread the word that Mormons aren't actually sociopathic nuclear families.
Sometimes they even managed to wrangle a few people in to coming to church on sunday, too.
When I lived in a heavily Mormon area it wasn't so bad, as they usually traveled to places that weren't 2/3 LDS to preach their spiel.
For people who might be interested...?
Even if you convert a few, I'd be more than willing to bet that you'd completely alienate a substantially higher number of people.
As long as they're being polite, how are the missionaries alienating people? Rather, the people who feel alienated by polite missionaries--are these people who are going to wake up one day and think, "Man, I should go to that neat church I saw the other day!" or are they people who already have prejudices against the religion knocking on their door and are never going to join anyway?
That was the weirdest fucking thing ever. Then because the litter box was right at the door my cat took a huge dump in front of them. Bless that glorious cat.
I wanted to respond to this part of your post in particular, but it's a side issue and I made a new thread so this one doesn't get sidetracked.
Well, I guess now the perception if Mormons is that they're all door-to-door proselytizing dudes in ties instead of sociopathic nuclear families. Might be an improvement, but still not exactly "normal".
A while ago there was an episode of "This American Life" where they interviewed two of the Mormon canvassers for one of the segments. From what I remember, they said actual converts were extremely rare. Like, they'd never heard of a single one.
Seemed kind of a personal question when I had already told them I wasn't interested.
Man, who would be against that, anyway? If the guy was actually set on doing that and managed to get a permit, let him do it.
I have to say it was actually kind of nice to see those people coming together and getting rid of a nuisance to the neighbourhood, though. It shows some solidarity that I don't feel exists in a lot of places, at least around here.
I think most people who are on the fence would rather talk about religion with somebody they know and trust instead of some random stranger who shows up at the door.
They don't do it because it's effective - they do it because that's what Jesus said to do.
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The latter.
They were trying to comparison shop for graveyard plots.
Personally I find it a bit insulting. I live in America, for starters, so of fucking COURSE I've heard about "The Lord". Beyond that, I personally know plenty about your religion, I've read your holy book, and its quite possible I know more about theology in general than YOU, Mr or Mrs Knockonmydoor, do, because I'm intellectually curious like that.
Now that doesn't mean I'm rude or hostile to these people, I'm Minnesotan and thus such a thing is not in my nature, but still I'm less inclined to have a discussion about religion with you because you come knocking on my door, probably interrupting me while I was doing something, and sort of act like I've been living under a rock since the rise of the roman empire.
I told them "Ohio" then slammed the door on the fucks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaxCdf_b1Is
They can't exactly spread the word in the missionary sense anymore. Everyone knows what their religion is, and the bulk of people have already made a choice before somebody comes a-knocking at the front door.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
That's a good point. If they knock on 100 doors of people that don't go to church, and 99 people hate them more but one person tried going to church really hardcore, they made a prophet on the day.