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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (68509)	12/24/1999 8:05:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I am afraid that I love to argue with all of the proselytisers -- except the kids from England selling magazine subscriptions. I usually start by offering them tea. No body takes it. Then I ask them if they find illiteracy burdensome? They all tell me they can read. "Then," I say, "why didn't you obey the sign that says no trespassing and no soliciting?" (I live in a gated community of many private estates). This usually starts an excellent discussion of the morality of bothering people with their versions of religion when trespassing is a prosecutable crime. They claim they are doing me a favor by bringing their good news. I say that would be so if what they preached was true (as they might believe), but if it is false (as I believe) then they are not only criminal (we both agree) but immoral as well. I ask them if they can prove their false doctrine in objectively true? Like a stock tip, or fire from heaven (Ezekiel). No such luck. I beseech them in the bowels of Christ to consider that they might be wrong. Then I bid them to shake off the inhospitable dust and to remove themselves and pray for forgiveness. Most of them are pleasant but ignorant youths. But some of them can learn. When I run into an Anglo graduate student who speaks a foreign language well, it is nearly always the case that he was a Mormon missionary in a far off foreign land.