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On 07/13/2016 02:58 PM, wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 06:54:30 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:32:57 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I'm of two minds on "freedom of religion". On the one hand, I feel
>>> that people have a right to be assholes. On the other hand, that right
>>> ends when someone gets hurt.
>>
>> We also need freedom /from/ religion, and in particular freedom from
>> the religious zealots harassing others and trying to indoctrinate
>> those who are not religious.
>>
>> I don't care about a person's religious beliefs, as long as they keep
>> it to themselves, don't get in my face about it or annoy me with it in
>> any other way. Especially if it involves coming uninvited onto my
>> property with their bullshit. I find that incredibly arrogant and
>> offensive.
>
> Lol at my condo the number on the pad that you dial to call the person
> is not the number of their unit, for obvious reasons. So when I
> received a letter addressed to me but with the pad number I knew the
> person did not know me and had simply copied it.
>
> It was from the JW's so I put a line through my address and marked it
> Return to Sender and then in large, red felt chip pen wrote THERE IS
> NO GOD! I didn't think anymore about it until I saw the mailman a
> couple of weeks later and he was laughing and said they made sure it
> went back to sender and it had done the rounds of the sorting office!
>
> Like you, I find that invasive and I resent it.
>

If your callers are JWs, tell them you have been disfellowshipped, but
give no details. They're never supposed to talk to their own outcasts.

Doesn't work for LDS "missionaries" or GOP canvassers.