Now They’re Busing Them In
Look, I consider myself to be someone who is understanding of the fact that people have different beliefs than I do. I would never dream of attempting to change someone’s way of thinking. Trying to force someone to your way of thinking is the most self righteous thing someone can do. I would hope that everyone respects people by respecting their beliefs, but I find too often that people feel the need to try to fix me, or to show me the right way.
It is for this reason that I have a serious issue with door-knockers. Not 2 months goes by without Mormon missionaries stopping by to try to convert us. Neighborhood churches come by often to try to get us to go to a service on Sunday. And just last night a young man came to our door saying he was ‘working on a scholarship’. He then proceeded to try to convince us to take religious literature. But tonight takes the cake.
Can you tell what this horribly dark and blurry picture shows?
That’s right, that’s a BUS parked in front of my house. If I haven’t made it clear yet, my neighborhood is not the best, so when a stranger knocks on our door at 8pm in pitch dark, Ryan is quickly on the defensive. When he opened the door they immediately started in with their pitch and Ryan was so angry that he was actually slightly rude to them, which is unlike him.
I took the picture from behind a pillar in front of our house because these people had engulfed our neighborhood and were at almost every door. Like a religious invasion.
Here’s the deal: most people are reasonably intellegent and capable of making smart, well-informed descisions which are appropriate to them. What makes people think that scaring me half to death late at night is going to convince me to change beliefs that I’ve had for most of my life? Anyone?
