More Jehovah's Witnesses

[mirrorshard]

This time, I took a different tack with a preemptive statement.

"I'm a Christian, and I believe in honesty, integrity, tolerance, complete equality, women in the workplace, evolution, and sex before gay marriage. If you think any of those things are incompatible with Christianity, there's no point our discussing things."

"Well, some of those, such as evolution, are difficult to reconcile with the Bible - "

"Not for me, they aren't."

"-but we won't keep you, and I hope you have a nice day."

I'm tickled to learn that they (or that one, at least, with the obligatory lurking sidekick) apparently think evolution is worse than gay sex/marriage.

Comments

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

And twice in two days, you get the Zoe icon. :-)

You *rock*, my darling. *beams*

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Chalk that one up as a win for the queers!

[arkady.livejournal.com]

That was absolutely brilliant! *stands and applauds*

[harald387.livejournal.com]

I actually had a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses come to my door a couple of weeks ago.

'My door' is accessed in one of two ways: Either through a locked door to which residents of the building have a key, or through an unlocked door which is nevertheless marked 'PRIVATE PROPERTY' and 'NO SOLICITATION'.

Further, it was ten in the morning on a Saturday which means I was totally not set to receive people. So I answer the door in pajama bottoms and a t-shirt, with my hair wild in all directions from having woken up about ten minutes before and not had my coffee yet.

"We... uh, we were wondering if you had a few minutes to discuss --"
"Are you literate?"
"...Yes?"
"There are signs outside. Please go read them. Don't come back." *points at door*

Yes, it was rude, but so is breaking into my apartment building.

[shuripentu.livejournal.com]

There's an anti-evolution article in pretty much every issue of Awake!; homosexuality, OTOH, is hardly ever even mentioned, nevermind discussed in detail. Fornication in general is, though; in any article that discusses the debasing influences of these Critical Times Hard To Deal With (TM) (2 Tim 3:1), fornication is usually first on the list. Whenever it's discussed in detail, though, it's always heterosexual.

I've always got the impression that they just tend to forget (or ignore) that homosexuality is even an option.

[keira-online.livejournal.com]

I'll have to remember that one :P