To ask if there is a "No God Botherers Please" sign I can put up in my porch?

[Fab123]

OK, here's the rant (please bear in mind I'm pg and getting big enough now that getting up and down stairs for no reason is enough to make me want to throw anything to hand at your head):

I live alone and have 1001 things to do before baby arrives in July. At the bottom of my road is a fairly large church (does Alpha Courses, not sure what that makes them but strong flavoured Christians I imagine). Now I know it is Easter coming up and everything but I have just had to open the door for no less than the 7th time IN ONE WEEK to a couple with a leaflet about Jesus.

I know this sounds petty but when you have an open can of paint that you need to suddenly cover and check cats can't get to, need to manoeuvre yourself from the comfortable position you have finally found on the sofa or come breathlessly running in through the house from the garden...it's driving me a bit balmy!

I've told he last 4 couples that I have had a constant stream of them since last week but it doesn't seem to be getting back to their HQ. How strong is this community they hark on about if they can't even tell each other which road they have canvassed? And are they wasting collection money on all of the flyers and leaflets I get given and thrust through my door that go the same way as all of the kebab house leaflets?

My Q is: Is there a sign out there that I can put up (similar to the No Sales Callers) that used to be popular?

Put an inverted pink triangle or gay pride flag sticker by the door, they will never bother you again.

yabu. and rude

YANBU, it would drive me potty too.

You could put a slightly more diplomatically worded sign up.

Why rude?
She just doesn't want to be evangelised every day of the week.

Maggiemagic I haven't invited them! I've actually been very polite to them but loosing patience fast.

Fab - just stick a notice up saying no callers apart from friend's relatives. YANBU if this has happened so many times. Are they from thre church? If so might be worth rtinging them and politerly asking that your house is missed when they do their calls.

YANBU and I am a Christian - this would irritate me too.

calling them 'god botherers' is rude yes.

YABU, rude and derogatory and pregnancy is no excuse. That said tis annoying so how about something less vile like 'No religious callers please, thank you'. If they still call, write to the church down the road.

I'd collect all the leaflets and deliver them back to the church, pointing out that this amounts to harassment and telling them to back off.

What Pheebe said.

Maggie, calling uninvited upon someone and trying to sell them a concept they haven't invited you to sell to them is pretty rude too.

I like dogs... is it okay if I and my fellow rescuers knock on your door 7 times in one week to convince you to like them too? Even if you've already told us that you aren't interested?

Or is it just god-botherers that you feel defensive about?

Hmm.. It is annoying, I just ignore the door tbh.

"No God Botherers Please" sign is a bit rude though

Well, they are bothering me and want to talk about god...so...

OK then, I'll just call them Christians.

It's a fairly common term, used by people who don't like having someone else's faith shoved in their faces.

YANBU, just understandably cranky. It would drive me insane too and I'm not pregnant. Could you just stick up a little notice saying "no religious callers please, this lady's not for turning."

YANBU. But I wouldn't call them God-botherers for the sake of politeness!
"No callers but friends and family" should be sufficient and do it now because you really won't need this with a newborn either.

I have a sign I made myself, which says 'We do not buy goods or services at the door, nor are we interested in the political or religious views of others'. Have not had a single unwanted caller since putting it up.

Just don't answer your door Just because someone knocks at your door does not mean you have to answer. I don't.

Let friends and family know they need to ring you first or you won't open the door - keep your mobile on you so you don't replace getting to door with getting to phone and job done.

Fab, how about a sign reading, "I'm Pagan, please keep your religion to yourself and I'll do the same."?

Or... "I'm a Devil-worshipper... " etc etc? :o

'God botherers' doesn't describe people who have religious belief. It describes those who have religious believe and seek, uninvited, to foist it upon other people.

Aha!

Have found a sign.

Rather hideous but I can tape it to the side of the wheely bin on my pathway.
cgi.ebay.co.uk/NO-SALESMEN-HAWKERS-CANVASSERS-RELIGIOUS-CALLERS-SIGN-/320673330608#ht_664wt_1139

Only reason I go running is for the postman and sign for delivery things (nesting shopping in overdrive). Actually think this sign will be useful post-birth when I'm no doubt going to be napping whenever I can!

YANBU or rude in the slightest.

What on earth makes these people think they have the right to intrude on the privacy and time of strangers and try to foist their own (highly skewed) beliefs on them??

Ridiculous. I have plenty worse names for them than 'god-botherers'.

Put up whatever sign you want.

FFS, don't call the 'God botherers'.................... the 'God squad' sounds far better

I feel your pain op, I have a Jehovahs witness church AND a fecking mormon church nearby..... I change religion from one to the other depending on who knocks

TBH, if they cannot respect your wishes to be left a lone you ave to get nasty, t'is the only way

I call them Bible Bashers

They are rude and ignore the sign on my door telling them they aren't welcome.

"No God Botherers Please" might gee them up a bit though . Give them a bit of a challenge.

(btw they bother me too, I'm not sticking up for them! I think yanbu. just a wee bit rude)