stealth proselytization?

[ashmanonar]

last night i was playing pool with this one chick (who is rather regrettably right wing, but meh.) and these two girls wanted to take a "survey"...

i was kinda suspicious from the start. the very first question was about "what do you think about life after death"...if i had been thinking faster i could have started talking about cthulu, the elder god...but i just said that i believed that what you do in life is more important than what you think will happen after blah blah blah.

so they continued asking questions. and i think my answers (not believing in their god, believing that the things you do in life are more important than worrying about whether you're going to hell or not...etc) were pissing the one girl off. :D...i'm just that good ;)...

i think she finally got the hint that neither of us was gonna find jesus, and we were leaving, so she gave us these little booklets...(i wanted to burn it in effigy, but i didn't have a lighter on me. :evilgrin:)


but anyways. just thought i'd see what everyone has to say: or if anyone has any stories of stealth proselytization...:D

[sui generis]

1. they're not as subtle down in the gay ghetto

they come in wearing black and carrying signs, "You Are Going To Burn In Hell", and "Repent Before It's Too Late".

Trouble is, nobody gives a damn about their flavor of deity that hates fags.

I sure could give a crap about one that requires stealth proselytization. I mean, why doncha just bust a groove baby jeebus and put in a guest appearance with holy rays of holiness shooting out of your holy diaper? I'll bet you that would get people to convert for sure.

[ashmanonar]

4. that's when i would meet them at the door with a shotgun.

:D

you're just defending your home! christians have been known to conquer other lands in the past...;)

[Demit]

2. My drycleaner started to proselytize to me

She was very nice & we had begun to chat whenever I came in. Normally I don't get chummy with shopowners but it was nice. She was Asian and was telling me about her family & so on. Then she would tell me about her relationship with Jesus. Then she invited me to her church. Then she started to ask me to her church every visit. I found another drycleaner.

[ashmanonar]

3. heh.

yea. i don't need to worry about that, bc these are more or less roving (ironic, i know) proselytizers. our school is FULL of these fundie organizations. strange, considering it's nondenominational (public). *shrug*

[mondo joe]

5. I love they think they're like Jesus by being sneaky.

THey should at least have the balls to be upfront about what they're doing.

[ashmanonar]

6. well, they weren't even that sneaky.

they just didn't actually come out and say it. i could tell from the beginning that it was something religious. and the only people on our campus who try to convert people are christians. *shrug*

[NoodleBoy]

7. something I noticed at my college's cafeteria were books and papers

tiny little new testament books, just laying around.

also, here and there would be printouts of Bible passages with the parts like "jeeebus loves you" circled and little messages about it "never being too late" written on them. I threw those away.

[Reverend_Smitty]

8. The first really nice day of the year...

which was a few weeks ago I was walking to class and 2 girls approached me and asked if they could ask me a question. Figuring they were just doing a survey...lots of psych majors do that, I said ok. Well the next thing they said was "If you were to die today, do you believe that you would be going to heaven or hell?" Taken aback, and still a little sleepy I said, "I'm late for class" and got the hell away from them. If I was feeling at the top of my game I would have played with them, but I might have been a bit hung over at the time so I didn't bother

[ashmanonar]

10. that's about what they asked me. not specifically in that order.

and yea, i wish i had had more presence of mind, or i could have invoked the elder god...:D

[MadHound]

9. Oh I love streetcorner, and churchfront prostelytizers

I even love the ones that come by my house on occasion. Gives me a chance to really fuck with their minds.

This is the deal, my mother's family is Roman Catholic, my dad, Southern Baptist, making me a Roman Baptist, or a Southern Catholic. Anyway, I got some serious religion when I was growing up, and I know my Bible inside and out. I got interested in comparitive theology when I was a kid, and got started going up to the church front hawkers when I was twelve and debating theological matters with them. Drove them up a wall that a kid was smacking their ass around.

In college, I would corner the whole group of Campus Fundies for Christ, and drive them into a bible waving frenzy, looking up quotes and verses and such, while I stood there, going from memory, and beating all their happy asses down.

The ones that come by are real fun. My responses vary from "No thank you, I'm a pagan"(especially effective with the teenage Baptist girls, who look wide eyed scared, like I might kill them for dinner any second) to inviting them in to discuss religious matters, as I throw down my copy of the Necromunda(which gets even the most dedicated evangelical protestant looking around for an exorcist).

I've always considered it my mission to give back more to these people than I get, and the reactions are always priceless. I haven't sent anybody running away screaming yet, but there's always tommorrow:evilgrin:

[LeftyMom]

11. Necromunda?

You're menacing them with miniature games?

I'm confuzzled.

[MadHound]

12. Sorry, brain fart

Referring to the Necronomicon, <>

Though the idea of threatening them with miniatures might work also:crazy: