Teo · 12 answers · 1mo

In the US, in my experience, it's primarily Christians, Mormons (Latter Day Saints), and Jehovah's Witnesses who are known for being pushy about their religion. In your locale is that also the case or do other groups fill that role?

I agree. In the UK, they're the only ones who will actually knock on your door to try to recruit you. If it's Mormons, it'll be the two young men in suits (Although I haven't seen Mormons for a long time, now that I think of it.). If its the Jehovah's, it'll be one young person and one old person of the same gender. (I can spot god-botherers at a hundred yards!) If I see them going around I won't answer the door. You also see them standing in town centres where they might approach people walking by. I get approached A LOT. I obviously scream "godless heathen". I'm sure it was a Mormon leader who said something like, "Scotland is a dark land full of homosexuals." a few years ago because he'd seen pictures of men wearing kilts - kilts=skirts therefore they must be gay and gay is bad and they need god in their lives and we're just the people to put god in their lives!

I was on a bus in Edinburgh once and a young man in a suit got on. He spotted another young man in a suit and sat beside him - they can obviously spot each other at a hundred yards! They started speaking about their respective pastors, then they went on to speak about the local food. One said incredulously, "They put butter on their sandwiches!" which I almost laughed out loud at. Then one asked, "Have you tried haggis? It's just like sausage!" and I thought, "If you like sheep's lungs and oatmeal in your sausages, then yes?!?!"

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