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    Ok so this may offend some but I have to ask it! Why do religious people feel the need to turn up at my door to talk about religion?

    Two guys with a baby turn up at my house yesterday Bibles in hand to discuss Jesus’ sacrifice!

    Am I interested – no!
    Should I tell them why – no!

    I find this as irritating as hell and next to all the ‘God Squad’ bumper stickers!

    Have these people ever heard of privacy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ed_S View Post
    Ok so this may offend some but I have to ask it! Why do religious people feel the need to turn up at my door to talk about religion?

    Two guys with a baby turn up at my house yesterday Bibles in hand to discuss Jesus’ sacrifice!

    Am I interested – no!
    Should I tell them why – no!

    I find this as irritating as hell and next to all the ‘God Squad’ bumper stickers!

    Have these people ever heard of privacy?
    they're on commission and get paid by the soul

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    For some groups it is a moral requirement, they have to try to convert and save you. It is part of the particule faith and can not be seperated. I have even had a group stage a praying event to try and save me hen I told them to leave, they stood at the property line and prayed.


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    What I don't understand is the correlation between guns and religious people. I hate that, It makes me look bad.

    Do I love guns, yes, am I conservative, yes. But I am NOT religious in any way, shape, or form.

    I Can't stand it when I see some shit on the news about some bible thumper standing up for gun rights.
    I spent my Obama Stimulus money on a GUN!

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    It's funny but the pastor at my church actually hates the term religion. His outlook is we need to be spiritual with our lives and that's what makes us Christians in the real sense of the word. It is true that some beliefs make it mandatory to try and save or as they put it "witness" your salvation. I think some of the worst times in world history are tied into religious beliefs as is evident everyday with suicide bombers and terrorism in general. It's a slippery slope !!! My Dad always told me to keep away from political and religion topics when out tipping a few. Words of Wisdom-
    Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to Fight, he'll just kill you.

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    I've always wondered the same things in the original post... ^^

    my experience...

    when on your death bed, you'll find out who your friends are and what their intentions are... best friend at the time came to see me in the hospital, asked me what I believe and I told him, then he goes off on me about why I was wrong and that is wrong and these types of people are wrong etc... pretty much ended that friendship. Some others showed up to see me that I never suspected. You know who the good people are then.

    I recently saw the old best friend and his father... the father was all excited that he had found some great books on some popular author about being good and doing the right things... etc. I just looked at him and said "maybe you should have thought about all that 30 years ago...." he was a drug dealer etc for many years...

    I figure on doing the right thing now instead of later...

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    Some people live hard lives and find "religion" and they want to share it.
    Some people have a traumatic experience where "faith" got them through.
    Some people had "miracles" and it changed their life for the better.
    Some people....

    I believe in God. I believe that there is ONE God and His name is Jesus Christ, who came to this earth in human form to take our sins to teh cross once and for all. But I do not go out and knock on peoples doors and force feed 'em my personal beliefs... If people have questions, they can ask. I might throw some stuff out there now and then when I'm with a good friend and they are desperate or serisouly looking, but I don't force anything.

    It's my personal beliefs. Some people think my beliefs are cultish, I think some others beliefs are cultish...

    I don't know what I'm trying to say, just thought I'd post something.

    If you don't take offense, great. If you do take offense, then keep on scrolling down and ignore me. Nothing to fight about.

    God Bless All. People can and do change.

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    I find that answering the door with a pentagram painted on my face, wearing my satanic robes, holding the recent goat sacifice,, They leave fairly quickly..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marlin View Post
    I find that answering the door with a pentagram painted on my face, wearing my satanic robes, holding the recent goat sacifice,, They leave fairly quickly..


    We had some Jehovah's witnesses going around the neighborhood stopping at every door, I was in the garage cleaning guns with the door open... they saw me in there racking slides and walked right by.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanek9freak View Post

    I Can't stand it when I see some shit on the news about some bible thumper standing up for gun rights.

    I'll take ANYONE who will stand up for our rights.

    It seems to me you're more anti-religion than anything.

    Which is fine, but suggesting that it makes you look bad because Christians tend to favor gun-rights as a whole, is an ignorant and immature conclusion.

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