12-04-2005, 12:30 PM
SpoonMan999 Wrote:It's funny how so many say that many religious people are close minded and intolerant. Yet reading this thread shows most of the people who would say those things are in fact just like them.
This thread is about the annoying people who come knocking on your door at all hours of the day and bombard you with their religon in the hopes that you'll convert or "see the light" and join up, or at donate money to them at least. This is not a debate about religon itself but rather the methods some religons choose to employ in order to aquire new followers. No one is showing any form of closed-mindedness they are simply expressing their displeasure at being disturbed at thier own homes.
If salesmen and/or religous represenatives knocking on your door and trying to sell you something does not bother you then thats fine. Some, obviously, ARE bothered by this and they are expressing their displeasure about it. Your extrapalating(SP?) or assuming based on them being bothered by this that they are unwilling to sit down on their own terms with someone and debate/talk about religon.
Wanting to sit down and talk about religon vs. having some (group of) stranger(s) come to your door at some random hour and try and "sell" you on their beliefs or push pamphlets at you are two completely different things. I went back and reviewed the posts and I can not find a single one that displays anything other than displeasure at being disturbed randomly at home by religous people.
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