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Last night at about 9:30 we were putting the littler ones to bed when someone knocked at our front door.
IMO, people only knock at your door at that hour when it's an emergency. So I went down to see who it was. It was evangelists! At 9:30 at night! Oooooh, that's something that really ticks me off. And it's kind of creepy, too... at that hour of the night they might have been up to no good and using the evangelist bit as a cover.
They were two young girls dressed in very conservative outfits. They had badges identifying themselves as members of a Christian group (but not a group I recognized off hand. I wish I had written down the name--if they come back again I will). They held Bibles and seemed a little nervous.
I asked them what they wanted and they couldn't get to the point so I cut to the chase and asked if it was an emergency. The answer was "your soul is an emergency" so I said "no thanks" and shut the door. My husband said he thought he'd seen a van dropping these girls of down the street, so I guess they annoyed the whole neighborhood.
I've never, EVER had something like that happen before. We had to deal with Jehovah's Witnesses before when we lived in California, but they were at least polite enough to harrass you during the day.
Any thoughts? Is this happening to other people? If this is likely to happen again I want to nip it in the bud. Maybe I'm over-reacting, but IMO it is WRONG to knock on someone's door late at night. Plus I don't want to encourage strangers to knock on my door, anyway. Is this something to notify the police about? Or maybe notify the HOA?
People are crazy! It's one thing to evangelize, but to do it that late at night is ridiculous. Not only that, but I would never send my daughters to someone's house that time of night. I would beware because some time you have people like this who pretend to be churches and they are nothing but cults. I'm a Christian and I believe you have every right to feel uncomfortable about this situation. It's disturbing and disrespectful. I wouldn't notify the police but the HOA definitely needs to know.
Edit: Just realized how old this is.....
Last edited by justtitans; 06-30-2012 at 06:57 PM..
Proselytizers are just a low-tech version of telemarketers. They have no grounds on which to expect any higher level of respect or consideration.
This is the reason why I get irritated with people like this group that put these girls up to this because you have people like saganista who make sweeping generalization of individuals who do this. Believe it or not, there people who are legitimately trying to help others. It's not necessarily about getting someone to join their church or to get money. Some people just genuinely care about that individual and wants to do whatever they can to help that person. I do believe that this particular situation crossed the line, but I think generalizations of people like this breeds ignorance.
This is the reason why I get irritated with people like this group that put these girls up to this because you have people like saganista who make sweeping generalization of individuals who do this. Believe it or not, there people who are legitimately trying to help others. It's not necessarily about getting someone to join their church or to get money. Some people just genuinely care about that individual and wants to do whatever they can to help that person. I do believe that this particular situation crossed the line, but I think generalizations of people like this breeds ignorance.
Sorry, but no one has the right to disturb other people while expecting to get the Miss Manners treatment back in return. When you choose to ring my bell at an odd hour, you force me to stop whatever it is that I am doing to get up and go see what it is that you might want or need. You are showing no respect for me at all. You are in essence putting yourself ahead of me in deciding what it is I am to be doing at that moment in time in my own home. You know I'm sure exactly what you can do with that idea.
Believe it or not, there people who are legitimately trying to help others. It's not necessarily about getting someone to join their church or to get money. .
pgtitans - Really? Please explain what help you (and those showing up at the doors) think these people need? And how that help would be achieved.....
pgtitans - Really? Please explain what help you (and those showing up at the doors) think these people need? And how that help would be achieved.....
Well the answers to those questions are very brief and simple, but I am not sure whether answering would violate the city-data TOS:
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Still, to echo someone earlier, the problem with door-to-door evangelism is that probably 95% of the people who do it belong to some cult or a sect way outside the mainstream.
I'm guessing it's because that's when they'll find the greatest number of people at home. It used to be the dinner hour or Saturday morning but a lot of people aren't even home now at those times. It's all a numbers game.
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I didn't even realize that. Hope she didn't join the religious cult that was knocking on her door.
