Yesterday I was woken by knocking on the front door. I thought it would be the much awaited delivery of a package, and so rushed downstairs. Instead, I was greeted by two ladies, telling me they wanted to talk about the bible. I told them I wasn’t interested, but instead of, you know, actually listening to what I was saying one of the kept on talking. God is aware of what’s happening in the world, ba bla bla.
Now, normally I’m very polite, but this time they just rubbed me the wrong way. And the lady just wouldn’t listen! She annoyed me to the point of me saying that “If your god exists, he doesn’t deserve to be worshipped.” To which she replied, “God isn’t an old man, -”. My “I don’t care” was ignored. She then tried to give me an information pack, which I said I didn’t want, and told her to save the paper. She insisted, I told her it’s a waste, she said “Oh, you never know”. Well, I do know. She was so persistent that her companion eventually said, exasperated, “She said NO, Edith.”. Then they left.
Not much point to this post, but the other lady’s comment was a bit funny. I really don’t mind religious people in general, not even those that come knocking on my door. To each their own, why would I deny them their belief? But when they refuse to listen to anything I say (and thus not even inviting the possibility of a discussion), I grow weary. Be gone with you.
I suppose what really bugs me is they way some people claim that everything in the bible is true and that God is good, ignoring all the evidence to the contrary. God kills people for no good reason. And hello, fig tree!?!