In other "exciting" news

[general_radix]

The doorbell rang this morning and I answered the door thinking it was UPS or something. Nope; it was two nice old ladies from church (which one, I'unno; there's like a dozen around here). Usually when we get visits from church folk, they open right away with an offer to join, but these two just wanted to share a Bible passage they'd hoped we'd find inspiring.

I figure, "if that's all they want to do, it would be polite to let them share it", so I did; it was mostly about keeping faith/high spirits in hard times, I think. The lady reading this offered to come back again to further discuss things (the problem of evil came up and neither my sister nor I could articulate a decent answer), to which I awkwardly replied "if you want to"--my sister had to step in and tell 'em that Mom wouldn't want them to do that.

To be clear, I'm not a person of faith and have no interest in attending church; it's just not my nature to be blunt towards folks who aren't acting rudely to me. :U

Anyone else here get visits like that? (Which we might get another of in the near future, whoops...)

Comments

[juzo_kun]

Not a thing that happens here -- the only (debatable) advantage of being a country under Vatican's shadow is that every other denomination has quite a difficult time to proselitize. Caused by inertia, mostly, rather than active contrast.

[Me, I accept faith as a personal thing without problems. Problems start when someone want to cast their faith/religion tenets upon me.]

Every once in a while I get the occasional JW couple asking me when I cross them while strolling downtown but they invariably are petite old ladies, while I'm a big woman that also use heels and whom ten years of clinical depression gave quite a spectacular... *ahem*, resting b****face. Usually a "no" with a thousand yard stare suffices.

But whoah do I have a screed ready just in case someone gets insistent... beware the Pope of Discordians!

[general_radix]

I had a feeling that it might've been less of a problem in Italy (didn't know you had JWs over there too, though). XD;

[Same, I think; I try to assume good faith unless they bust out the "atheists/people of other faiths are chodes" spiel]