To Wonder Why Only Jehova's Witnesses Go Door to Door?

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I have never answered the door to, or had pamphlets posted through the letter box by any denomination of any other religion. I'm just curious as to whether followers of any other religions go door to door and I've just never met them or if it's something unique to Jehova's Witnesses.

I also wonder what the success rate of converting people using this method is, or if they're actually trying to convert people at all.

On a separate note I always feel a bit guilty about putting the pamphlets in the recycling It's probably a throw back from being bought up by a religious family.

They are at our local tube station every morning at rush hour giving out leaflets.

We also have the Brethern who look like little house on the prairie - girls with very very long blonde hair down to their bottoms, head scarf, long skirt, loads of children and of course more women than not cover up as they are muslim at the state school about 2 minutes from my house so an awful lot of Muslims never mind hindus although they don't knock door to door. So a very mixed area which is one of the interesting things about London and plenty of atheists too. What all the religions have in comnon just about is being sexist to the core so none of them are of any use to most women.

Part of me is desperate to have an argument with them, because I love arguing and know I could wipe the floor with them.

what does that even mean?

Mormons do, too. It's expected of them.

Why does no one ever turn up on my door step bearing baked goodies?

They do around here :o
www.ringtons.co.uk/

All our cars have Pagan/ Norse symbols on them and they have to pass them to knock the door. Doesn't put them off, very big, long haired, long bearded Metalhead Viking son in boxers answering the door did though

They believe that Armageddon is imminent, anyone not a JW will be destroyed. They pray for this to come quickly. There will be no sympathy or sorrow for those killed as you have been given the opportunity to listen but closed the door.

We go door to door because we are trying to live our lives according to the bible, and following the instructions Jesus gave his followers. We aren't trying to buy our way in to heaven, as suggested further up thread. We aren't trying to annoy people, we are just trying to share our beliefs as instructed in the bible.

If anybody is interested, our official website has information on why we come to your door including scriptural references which you can check in your own bible if you would like to.

JW.org

Don't quote me on this but I think it's because the JWs believe in salvation by works, as opposed to the more orthodox churches which believe in salvation by faith through grace.

I live just around the corner from a kingdom hall but surprisingly I've never had them call round.

Another website you could also look at is jwsurvey.org or jwfacts.com.

That's not true about them believing that everyone who is not a JW will be destroyed in Armageddon.

They believe that most people, JW or not, won't live through Armageddon, I don't think it'd forecast to be a pleasant event, but everyone will be resurrected and given the chance to live in peace on earth for 1000 years.

*it's not it'd

I had a Catholic anti abortion person knock on my door and give me an anti abortion leaflet. I am usually polite to the God botherers, but this one got both barrels.

(sorry I can feel a rant coming on...)

They have no idea of the circumstances of people who decide to abort a pregnancy. How is it Christian in any way to force a woman to have a child they do not want/who will suffer due to malformation/who will die once born etc etc. Who do they think they are to spread their evil message that shames women who make that difficult choice? Gah.

I told them to leave and keep their shitty leaflet.

I'd love the Mormons to come knocking so I could sing at them.

Hasa Diga Ebowe!

I'd invite them in for s cup of tea in my Book of Mormon stage show mug.

Sorry Too old. I was a witness for over 30 years, daughter of an elder, married to a ministerial servant & I pioneered. They do believe that witnesses are the only ones who will survive the coming 'great tribulation'.

if you asked a witness at the door if they believe this they may not put it as bluntly as that, but that is what it boils down to.

I was a witness too from 6-17 and the elders at our KH didn't think it was likely that anybody would survive Armageddon.

My family were disfellowshipped when it emerged that my sibling was an alcoholic and we still had regular contact.

Hmm so different KHs are preaching different things?

Not looking to start anything btw, maybe they just told us different stuff

Happy to be atheist anyway

gosh we have the stands in our town. I'd been wondering who was sitting there.

The advice on how to treat disfellowshipped family members has in recent years got a lot harsher. I am not disfellowshipped I just tried to gradually fade out. Still I have lost all my friends, my mother told me I am being influenced by satan & I am killing my children. We have little contact now.

I have never heard any elder say what too old said. I have been a member of 3 different congregations. A study edition of the watchtower is used on Sunday meetings & that is the same all over the world, also there are large assemblies every year & the same programme is taught worldwide so there should not be differences.

I'm not making it up. I was only six when my parents started having a study. I was 9 and my sister 8 when we started having our study. The idea of Armageddon terrified me and I wanted definitive answers because I was so scared. Will anyone survive this fire and brimstone you are forecasting? I was told no, not likely, but don't worry you'll be resurrected and can have a lovely thousand years stroking tigers provided you follow the rules.

The advice on how to treat disfellowshipped family members has in recent years got a lot harsher

I guess the paranoid 'us and them' mindset would become amplified as they set themselves apart from the rest of society

I despise religion. I don't believe in God. I did, as an easily influenced child and then teen but really, to me, it's a fairy tale. I do respect people who have faith and strong beliefs. Honestly, I think they are deluded but I admire their strength.

What I dislike is how JWs are picked on on here. They believe fairy stories like all the other religions but only they are roundly derided on here.

Is going door to door with magazines, because your belief demands it, any weirder than covering yourself from head to toe in black? I don't think so. I think both are equally nuts but if I start a thread about the latter I'll be ripped to shreds.