to be a bit creeped out by this?

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NC as a good friend knows my posting name and I'm not sure I want her to know. I live in a neighbourhood where a lot of people who go to the same very evangelical church live. My friend (who knows my posting name) is one of them. Just got back from coffee with her and checked the post. There was a small piece of card, obviously cut up from something else (mostly blank but with a piece of printing in the corner) with the handwritten note 'Jesus loves you'.

DP and I are very strong atheists but also, I think, very tolerant people. As an example I try very hard never to use language that these neighbours would think blasphemous when we meet (there's an active neighbourhood social life, about half church-only, the other half mixed) as, regardless of my beliefs, I think it's rude for me to say things that I know would seriously offend them.

However I know that a couple of them don't agree with DP and I living together before marriage and I feel like there's a bit of curtain-twitching in the street. 95% of the time I love living here but sometimes something like this happens and I feel a bit This church is very into 'community outreach' which, IMO, is a little OTT in the way they go about it (I've experienced a lot of community outreach by religious groups in my time and this group is definitely at the radical end of the spectrum) so it's not out of character for this to be some kind of prayer activity that they are doing on 'our behalf'.

Or maybe it's the neighbourhood kids playing a prank.

I don't know. I suddenly feel a bit uncomfortable and, if it is them praying on my behalf, a bit cross because I leave them to get on with their religion and they should, in turn, leave me alone to get on with my lack of religion.

So, AIBU to feel creeped out by finding this in my letterbox and WIBU to call my close friend (very liberal, doesn't give two hoots about DP & I living together) and ask her if she knows generally whether the church is putting notes through people's doors? If it came with the church name I'd shove it in the bin but the anonymity is wierding me out.

And that was far too long!

Post an anonymous note back through people's doors saying:

"Richard Dawkins has rationally considered your existence and shown that it is a product of randomness but nonetheless precious for that"

YANBU in my opinion. I've never felt the need to give any of my religious friends a card saying "God does not exist" so I don't see why they think they have the right to perster me with their beliefs which they know I don't share.

Ahem! Sacrificing kittens is our speciality (allegedly). The Christians will have to content themselves with the cellars.

I've received a couple of cards exactly as you describe, plain card with the words "Jesus loves you'.

This is in Belgium.

I assume it is an evangelical Christian thing.

Why don't you just get married and shut them all up?

I'm working on it G1nger

medievalgirl I believe the phrase is: Jesus is coming hide the porn

whomovedmychoc and medieval girl - LMAO -

Even DH cracked a smile!

I'm working on some of my own but I've just got too filthy a mind

Oh and OP, Jesus loves you! Be happy! Even fictional characters love you, how awesome must you be! Or alternatively, just ignore the idiots!

Oh yeah, and Winnie the Pooh just rang up to tell me he loves you too

It's from the weird bloke who sits in the corner a socials and won't speak to you.

He wants to save you.

at Napa's suggestion.

Double-dare you to post that through the doors of all of 'em.

I live in N.I and regularly get pamphlets telling me how much God loves me.

pamphlets vs a piece of card. We all know who Jesus would rather have as a sunbeam

I think a nice card through their doors inviting them over to our place for a bit of a seance would go down well. Ask them to bring their own candles.

Your place not ours. I haven't enough wine in

I doubt that would creep me out... not after last week's Jesus prayer mat arrived!

It was the freakiest junk mail I ever received. An envelope with 'God, please bless whoever opens this envelope' written on the outside. I was intrigued... so I opened it to find the scariest picture of Jesus I have ever seen! It is one of those pictures where i you stare at it, he opens his eyes and looks at you. Shudder. I read the very long letter with it, that basically informed me I could pick whatever blessings I wanted and the Jesus prayer mat would give me them - I just had to pass it on to someone else that needed it. There was a check-list of blessings to ask for rom 'good health for a loved one' to 'a home to call my own' down to the more blatant 'a monetary blessing of $ amount'.

It was like a religious chain mail/internet spam only it came from a real church and was covered in 'Mrs. Jones used the Jesus prayer mat and received $63,000 blessing the next day!' - the instructions said to place it in the family bible, but if you didn't have a bible, then put it under your bed at night, and i you couldn't do that, it didn't matter, it would work anyway.

Anyhow, I spurned the Jesus prayer mat, leaving it in the envelope overnight. The next day I went to a concert, almost got crushed in the crowd and had two black eyes and badly bruised ribs. I got cursed by a Jesus chainmail! I anyone wants to see the Jesus Mat mail thingie, I posted the pics on my facebook, just message for me real name :-)

Minnie Not a double-dare! I'll have to do it now under strict cover of darkness because otherwise Jesus might stop loving me

I did get pamphlets once from a nice Jehovah's Witness on the train. He was lovely, as were the nice couple who came to the door and tried to start a debate with me when I said I didn't believe in God. I think it's the anonymity that's annoying. It's robbed me of a chance to say bugger off thanks, but no thanks.

X-posts SpaghettiMonster. I think I'd have keeled over and gone straight to St Peter. Who sends a Jesus mat? Isn't that vastly unholy and un-Jesus to wish for money anyway. Wow.

If it were me I would stick on a few Death Metal albums, crank up the volume and open the windows. But then I am childish like that.

I received an email from "Christian Mingle" the dating site for single Christians who wish to mingle yesterday. I think the church playgroup that I recently gave my email address to sold it on . It is full of very wholesome looking young people in denim that lead the happy clappy song time. I got sucked in by the real filter coffee and the bouncy castle...