XPost: alt.bible   
   From: sam@spade.invalid   
      
   James wrote:   
   > On Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:02:53 -0700, Samuel Spade  wrote:   
   >   
   > >James wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> Picture the boy Jesus coming to your door wearing a Devil's costume   
   > >> with horns saying TRICK or TREAT. I wonder what his trick would have   
   > >> been?   
   > >   
   > >Honest & truly, I'd rather see Jesus at my door wearing a devil costume,   
   > >than a gaggle of JWs all wearing suits and ties and white hankies.   
   >   
   > OK, then they will wear black leather jackets and boots and dungarees   
   > and have switchblades in their pockets, and ride up on a Harley   
   > Davidson. Would that please you more?   
      
   No.  I'd assume they were bona fide bikers, and not even answer the door   
   to tell them politely but firmly "not interested".   
      
   Rude is rude, no matter how you dress.   
      
   >   
   > At any rate, the dress code has changed. We no longer have to wear   
   > suits and ties. But we don't copy the worlds dress code with holes in   
   > their pants, and showing some of their buts.   
      
   I agree.  Holey jeans are tacky, even if they contain a nice ass. Purple   
   hair and tramp stamps are also yucky.   
      
   >   
   > >Do they not comprehend how rude & crude it is to come to your door,   
   > >demand immediate attention, and presume to speak for Jesus?   
   >   
   > But that is how Jesus and his apostles did it in the `1st century.   
      
   We don't know that.  Door to door evangelizing is risky enough now, let   
   alone in the roman republic.  In the stories, the people came to Jesus.   
      
   >   
   > If your house was on fire, wouldn't you want someone to come to your   
   > door to warn you? It is a similar thing with the house to house work   
   > by JW's.   
      
   Completely different.  The fire is in the eye of the beholder.  It's not   
   real.   
      
   Would you like atheists inviting themselves to your home, telling you to   
   repent of your false religion and accept reality into your heart and   
   brain?  Would you read the complimentary copy of The Gospel of the   
   Flying Spaghetti Monster?   
      
   >   
   > Oh by the way, they also help people in distress, and in 3rd world   
   > countries, they teach people who can't read, how to read. So the door   
   > work is not just only religion.   
      
   That's great.  Atheists are also quite charitable.  I've given more to   
   3rd worlders than the whole USAID will give next year.   
      
      
   > Not to   
   > >mention that it implies they don't hold their religion in high esteem.   
   >   
   > You can't get it any higher than the JW Bible-based religious beliefs.   
   >   
   > >   
   > >Sorry, James.  If I kept my silence, the very stones of the earth would   
   > >cry out.   
   >   
   > Yes, the pebbles might for you, but for us the boulders would cry out,   
   > because Biblically it could mean your life!   
      
   Boulders don't believe the Bible.   
      
   What do they know that you don't know?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)