Religious Question

[Ed_S]

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?

[Great-Kazoo]

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

[esaabye]

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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TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE VERB

1.
convert to Christianity: to convert somebody or the people of an area to Christianity, especially by preaching or missionary work

2.
be advocate for a cause: to try to persuade other people to share enthusiasm for specific beliefs and ideals


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[ryanek9freak]

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.

[StagLefty]

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-

[gnihcraes]

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...

[theGinsue]

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.

I had the same situation at the church I used to attend. According to that pastor, if someone was "religious", they had a loyalty to a specific denomination - not to God. The problem was, according to him, that a Satanist, Pagan, Wiccan, etc. person could ALSO be classified as "spiritual", so that term was out. Kinda made it difficult to discuss things.

[iamhunter]

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.

[ryanek9freak]

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.

You have one thing correct, I am STRONGLY anti-religion. Don't misconstrue what I'm saying. I DO beleive in God, but I have strong aversion to organized worship of any kind. I think it all borders on cult-like activity. I was baptized Catholic, but renounced it years ago when those hypocritical child molesters wouldn't baptize my daughter, juse because her mother and I weren't married.

I don't want people to NOT stand up for gun rights, but it's the Christian fundamentalist whack jobs that I don't want to be associated with. The likes of James Dobson or Ted Haggard. People always assume i'm some super right wing conservative jesus freak, just because I love me some guns.

The only reason I love firearms, is because they are beautiful works of art, that can end life. So much more than just the sum of their parts.

[KevDen2005]

Sounds like you need Jesus!