Religion forced down your throat

actually no, usualy the religion people that come to my door ask if I would be interested in hearing their pitch to which I deny and they happily go away.

Hmm, I've had experiences with 'door-to-door' preachers, but nothing as negative in comparison to what you've experienced. In my area, they're (usually) fairly nice people that understand that you don't want to convert. The closest one has come to 'pressuring' me to convert was when he handed me a phamplet of information. Most of my conversations with them basically turn out like this.

*I open door*

"Hello, I'm here on behalf of the [Insert] Church. Would you like an information phamplet?"

"Thank you, but I'm already comfortable with my current religion."

"Okay sir, have a nice day."

"You too."

*I close door*

EDIT: I actually find Atheists trying to discredit religion much more annoying, since they tend to be incredibly arrogant and pompous to the extreme. I don't mind Atheists, but hardcore ones are even more snobby and elitist then fundamentalist theists.

Nope, but I would much rather prefer to debate about it here on GS :D

I live next to a church, which i don't go to, but something i dislike are people that go door to door telling people about there religion, how wonderful, sometimes the crazy ones will even say: if you don't follow my words, then god will send you to hell. Now i dont mind a pleasant conversation, such as: "Hello sir/madden i would like to tell a bit about my personal beliefs in hope you will like them too, and will join me and my fellow believers" No thank you, i would like to stick to my current relegion, please have a nice days. but alot of them (or atleast that knock on my house) dotn leave you alone until you atleast try it or something, and thats what makes me mad, that they wont to push there beliefs down your throat. I respect your beliefs and all, but pleases don't try to force me in to your religion. Has anyone ever experienced such a thing? White_wolf_eye

now the bolded words I strongly disapprove of. But as a Christian myself I will say that most Christians witness to others because they love others and want you to find the same happiness that they have found. If you don't want to listen then you can respectfully say no. But then if they don't leave you alone, that is a problem I guess.

I find atheists trying to shove their beliefs down my throat more then religious people these days. Just saying.Toriko42

[QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"]I live next to a church, which i don't go to, but something i dislike are people that go door to door telling people about there religion, how wonderful, sometimes the crazy ones will even say: if you don't follow my words, then god will send you to hell. Now i dont mind a pleasant conversation, such as: "Hello sir/madden i would like to tell a bit about my personal beliefs in hope you will like them too, and will join me and my fellow believers" No thank you, i would like to stick to my current relegion, please have a nice days. but alot of them (or atleast that knock on my house) dotn leave you alone until you atleast try it or something, and thats what makes me mad, that they wont to push there beliefs down your throat. I respect your beliefs and all, but pleases don't try to force me in to your religion. Has anyone ever experienced such a thing? J-man45

now the bolded words I strongly disapprove of. But as a Christian myself I will say that most Christians witness to others because they love others and want you to find the same happiness that they have found. If you don't want to listen then you can respectfully say no. But then if they don't leave you alone, that is a problem I guess.

Does it make me a bad person if the first thing I thought was a Catholic priest when I read this title?Z0MBIES

[QUOTE="Z0MBIES"]Does it make me a bad person if the first thing I thought was a Catholic priest when I read this title?D3nnyCrane

I live next to a church, which i don't go to, but something i dislike are people that go door to door telling people about there religion, how wonderful, sometimes the crazy ones will even say: if you don't follow my words, then god will send you to hell. Now i dont mind a pleasant conversation, such as: "Hello sir/madden i would like to tell a bit about my personal beliefs in hope you will like them too, and will join me and my fellow believers" No thank you, i would like to stick to my current relegion, please have a nice days. but alot of them (or atleast that knock on my house) dotn leave you alone until you atleast try it or something, and thats what makes me mad, that they wont to push there beliefs down your throat. I respect your beliefs and all, but pleases don't try to force me in to your religion. Has anyone ever experienced such a thing? White_wolf_eye

that depends on the person. some people are just really pushy. you cant expect everyone to share the gospel the same way. so blame the people, not the religion. thats what i say.

I wait for the bus downtown near my school, and I get all kinds of pamphlets passed to me telling me that I can go to heaven if I'll just join their church. I don't believe it's right by any means, and those who look at their religion that way are misguided for sure. It's not a person's job to indoctrinate someone as a nominal member of their religion, but for they themselves to live their religion so that they don't become just nominal "followers." You can't just join a religion as so many people believe ... and no matter how many people you get to also join your community, it's all too common for it all to amount to nothing.

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[QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"]I live next to a church, which i don't go to, but something i dislike are people that go door to door telling people about there religion, how wonderful, sometimes the crazy ones will even say: if you don't follow my words, then god will send you to hell. Now i dont mind a pleasant conversation, such as: "Hello sir/madden i would like to tell a bit about my personal beliefs in hope you will like them too, and will join me and my fellow believers" No thank you, i would like to stick to my current relegion, please have a nice days. but alot of them (or atleast that knock on my house) dotn leave you alone until you atleast try it or something, and thats what makes me mad, that they wont to push there beliefs down your throat. I respect your beliefs and all, but pleases don't try to force me in to your religion. Has anyone ever experienced such a thing? White_wolf_eye

now the bolded words I strongly disapprove of. But as a Christian myself I will say that most Christians witness to others because they love others and want you to find the same happiness that they have found. If you don't want to listen then you can respectfully say no. But then if they don't leave you alone, that is a problem I guess.

What religion do you follow White_wolf_eye? I'm just curious. You have every right not to answer. If you're not a Christian, then that right there may be the reason you're harassed so often. I have noticed that street preachers tend to focus their attentions on those who follow a 'foreign' religion (as in not the standard North American Christian).

[QUOTE="J-man45"]

[QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"]I live next to a church, which i don't go to, but something i dislike are people that go door to door telling people about there religion, how wonderful, sometimes the crazy ones will even say: if you don't follow my words, then god will send you to hell. Now i dont mind a pleasant conversation, such as: "Hello sir/madden i would like to tell a bit about my personal beliefs in hope you will like them too, and will join me and my fellow believers" No thank you, i would like to stick to my current relegion, please have a nice days. but alot of them (or atleast that knock on my house) dotn leave you alone until you atleast try it or something, and thats what makes me mad, that they wont to push there beliefs down your throat. I respect your beliefs and all, but pleases don't try to force me in to your religion. Has anyone ever experienced such a thing? White_wolf_eye

now the bolded words I strongly disapprove of. But as a Christian myself I will say that most Christians witness to others because they love others and want you to find the same happiness that they have found. If you don't want to listen then you can respectfully say no. But then if they don't leave you alone, that is a problem I guess.

Honestly, I don't think I can further explain what I mean without starting to witness to you myself.:P Which I think you would thoroughly dislike at the moment.

What I see a lot of is atheists downtalking Christians and trying to covert them to atheism.

[QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"][QUOTE="J-man45"]

now the bolded words I strongly disapprove of. But as a Christian myself I will say that most Christians witness to others because they love others and want you to find the same happiness that they have found. If you don't want to listen then you can respectfully say no. But then if they don't leave you alone, that is a problem I guess.

Bigg_Boi

What religion do you follow White_wolf_eye? I'm just curious. You have every right not to answer. If you're not a Christian, then that right there may be the reason you're harassed so often. I have noticed that street preachers tend to focus their attentions on those who follow a 'foreign' religion (as in not the standard North American Christian).

[QUOTE="Bigg_Boi"]

[QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"] But some of them dont relize were just as happy as without it, they shouldn't try to force us something disapprove of, even if they think it will make us more happy people.White_wolf_eye

What religion do you follow White_wolf_eye? I'm just curious. You have every right not to answer. If you're not a Christian, then that right there may be the reason you're harassed so often. I have noticed that street preachers tend to focus their attentions on those who follow a 'foreign' religion (as in not the standard North American Christian).

Oh. By your post it seemed you were not actively in any religion.

[QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"][QUOTE="J-man45"]

now the bolded words I strongly disapprove of. But as a Christian myself I will say that most Christians witness to others because they love others and want you to find the same happiness that they have found. If you don't want to listen then you can respectfully say no. But then if they don't leave you alone, that is a problem I guess.

J-man45

Honestly, I don't think I can further explain what I mean without starting to witness to you myself.:P Which I think you would thoroughly dislike at the moment.

[QUOTE="J-man45"]

[QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"] But some of them dont relize were just as happy as without it, they shouldn't try to force us something disapprove of, even if they think it will make us more happy people.White_wolf_eye

Honestly, I don't think I can further explain what I mean without starting to witness to you myself.:P Which I think you would thoroughly dislike at the moment.

but you say you are Catholic, so at the moment you are sorta disapproving of your own religion?

[QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"][QUOTE="Bigg_Boi"]

What religion do you follow White_wolf_eye? I'm just curious. You have every right not to answer. If you're not a Christian, then that right there may be the reason you're harassed so often. I have noticed that street preachers tend to focus their attentions on those who follow a 'foreign' religion (as in not the standard North American Christian).

J-man45

Oh. By your post it seemed you were not actively in any religion.

[QUOTE="Bigg_Boi"]

[QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"] But some of them dont relize were just as happy as without it, they shouldn't try to force us something disapprove of, even if they think it will make us more happy people.White_wolf_eye

What religion do you follow White_wolf_eye? I'm just curious. You have every right not to answer. If you're not a Christian, then that right there may be the reason you're harassed so often. I have noticed that street preachers tend to focus their attentions on those who follow a 'foreign' religion (as in not the standard North American Christian).

[QUOTE="J-man45"]

[QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"] Im actually very young, and im till confused about my religion, im leaning to catholic, but i feel Buddhism is more my type(im not Asian btw, im Hispanic) that spiritual happines, You know? ill like to be happy on earth before i actually go to "heaven" (that is something not most Christians think about) but technically i am catholic. at the moment.White_wolf_eye

Oh. By your post it seemed you were not actively in any religion.

so you are trying to decide between Buddha and God? OK.

I'm fortunate enough to say that that's never happened to me. I suspect that throwing holy water on me would cause me to melt like the wicked witch of the west.

Like I said, atheists bash Christians a lot and try to convert them and say that God and Jesus are "mythology".

[QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"][QUOTE="J-man45"]

Honestly, I don't think I can further explain what I mean without starting to witness to you myself.:P Which I think you would thoroughly dislike at the moment.

J-man45

but you say you are Catholic, so at the moment you are sorta disapproving of your own religion?

I Gotz to Have my religion! *Om nom nom* :o

[QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"][QUOTE="Bigg_Boi"]

What religion do you follow White_wolf_eye? I'm just curious. You have every right not to answer. If you're not a Christian, then that right there may be the reason you're harassed so often. I have noticed that street preachers tend to focus their attentions on those who follow a 'foreign' religion (as in not the standard North American Christian).

ariz3260

I don't mind religious people in general, but fundamentalists and those who try to convert me tend to get on my nerves...chessmaster1989

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[QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"] Im sorry i forgot to place "i" between disapprove and something, it kinda changed the meaning of my post. sorry.White_wolf_eye

but you say you are Catholic, so at the moment you are sorta disapproving of your own religion?

Jehovahs Witness.

[QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"][QUOTE="J-man45"]

but you say you are Catholic, so at the moment you are sorta disapproving of your own religion?

J-man45

Jehovahs Witness.

If you don't want to listen then you can respectfully say no.J-man45

[QUOTE="J-man45"]If you don't want to listen then you can respectfully say no.scorch-62

what is so wrong with being polite though?

No I haven't and I've had plenty of encounters with door to door and wandering recruiters. They are usually a polite bunch and if I'm too tired or busy to talk I just inform them that I'm really not interested in talking and they just leave me a piece of their literature and go off on their merry way. Sure there have been a few people who are a bit more experienced and view me as a challenge and thus want to talk a little more, but I've never had them get aggressive by any means. They're usually just people trying to spread their personal message and I don't have any ill will for them.

I kinda know what you mean. I used to go to Bible Camp wayyy back whe I was like 11-13, and I used to believe,but not go to church really. But whenever I went to camp they basically do force it down your throat and try to trick you into becoming that religion and say that this is the only way to go with your life or you will end up in hell. I mean I respect it and everything, but I'd rather stick to my beliefs...

I kinda know what you mean. I used to go to Bible Camp wayyy back whe I was like 11-13, and I used to believe,but not go to church really. But whenever I went to camp they basically do force it down your throat and try to trick you into becoming that religion and say that this is the only way to go with your life or you will end up in hell. I mean I respect it and everything, but I'd rather stick to my beliefs...

-katamarina-

I kinda know what you mean. I used to go to Bible Camp wayyy back whe I was like 11-13, and I used to believe,but not go to church really. But whenever I went to camp they basically do force it down your throat and try to trick you into becoming that religion and say that this is the only way to go with your life or you will end up in hell. I mean I respect it and everything, but I'd rather stick to my beliefs...

I kinda know what you mean. I used to go to Bible Camp wayyy back whe I was like 11-13, and I used to believe,but not go to church really. But whenever I went to camp they basically do force it down your throat and try to trick you into becoming that religion and say that this is the only way to go with your life or you will end up in hell. I mean I respect it and everything, but I'd rather stick to my beliefs...

I don't have that because I live in an apartment.

[QUOTE="-katamarina-"][QUOTE="White_wolf_eye"] That place sounds horrible, why did you stay there.White_wolf_eye

Some people just don't spread the message of Jesus in the right manner, I suppose.

I find atheists trying to shove their lack of belief down my throat more then religious people these days. Just saying.Toriko42

fixed.