Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert vulnerable people

[nobodyknowsimhere]

First AIBU and I'm aware I've potentially chosen a hot topic, so I'm bracing myself.....

I work in a residential project for vulnerable women and their children. We get a lot of donations from local individuals and groups, some of them religious, some not. Occasionally they come with cards saying 'happy Easter/Christmas whatever from x congregation'. I'm not a fan of organised religion or religious charities but whatever, it has no impact on the women and children concerned so it doesn't bother me.

What did bother me, though, was when the Jehovah's Witnesses rocked up the other day wanting to leave copies of the Watch Tower in our foyer for people to pick up. My colleague was the one who saw them and didn't realise they were leaving religious tracts, which they described as 'magazines'. We're we being unreasonable to chuck the, straight in the bin once I showed up and explained what they were, and would I be unreasonable to call them up and ask them not to come again?

YANBU. When I worked in a womens refuge there were some JWs who were pretty relentless in coming to the refuge, and also waiting in the local park where the women would take their children. I know JWs go door to door, but turning up daily at the same place suggested to me that they were targeting.

Of course most of the women were perfectly able to tell them where to go if they wanted to, and I let them get on with that. However, they did seem to particularly home in on a very vulnerable Muslim woman who was not interested but not able to tell them so, so I did intervene in that instance. I'm pretty sure they started coming out of office hours after that, when staff weren't there.

Bottomline, JWs believe you absolutely have to convert to the JW organization, OR those that don't (99.9%) will be destroyed VERY SOON by their Jehovah at Armageddon.

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