Jehovah's Witnesses
Jun. 30th, 2006 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfynI just had an odd experience.
Two Jehovah's Witnesses came to the door and asked me if I had ever thought about the bible. Randomly (and possibly in an irresponsible way) I said "no thanks, I'm a practising catholic"*, and made to leave.
"Really?" said one of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and proceeded to talk.
It was amazing. Standing on my doorstep these two women proceeded to say increasingly dubious and really rather insulting things about the Catholic Church, starting with "but haven't you ever found yourself questioning your church. I mean, what about birth control?", continuing with "but don't you ever think that the Catholic Church would be a better place if they just listened to the word of god, and read the bible", "look at Italy - that's the most Catholic country in the world and that's where the mafia comes from", and "look at Rwanda - all the people there claimed to be Catholic and look what they did" and finishing up with "you're very lucky if you've had a good experience with your priest. Many people are not so lucky. Just think of all those children in America who've been abused."
Next time I'm claiming to be Jewish and finding out what they can say about the Jewish religion in fifteen minutes.
I had no idea that missionaries could be quite that offensive!
*I have this theory that Jehovah's Witnesses are hunting agnostics, and claiming that one has a strong faith in SOMETHING should make them go away, out of interfaith respect if nothing else...
Two Jehovah's Witnesses came to the door and asked me if I had ever thought about the bible. Randomly (and possibly in an irresponsible way) I said "no thanks, I'm a practising catholic"*, and made to leave.
"Really?" said one of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and proceeded to talk.
It was amazing. Standing on my doorstep these two women proceeded to say increasingly dubious and really rather insulting things about the Catholic Church, starting with "but haven't you ever found yourself questioning your church. I mean, what about birth control?", continuing with "but don't you ever think that the Catholic Church would be a better place if they just listened to the word of god, and read the bible", "look at Italy - that's the most Catholic country in the world and that's where the mafia comes from", and "look at Rwanda - all the people there claimed to be Catholic and look what they did" and finishing up with "you're very lucky if you've had a good experience with your priest. Many people are not so lucky. Just think of all those children in America who've been abused."
Next time I'm claiming to be Jewish and finding out what they can say about the Jewish religion in fifteen minutes.
I had no idea that missionaries could be quite that offensive!
*I have this theory that Jehovah's Witnesses are hunting agnostics, and claiming that one has a strong faith in SOMETHING should make them go away, out of interfaith respect if nothing else...
