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Originally posted by hiredgun
If you don't want to speak to door-to-door people, then just tell them so. Why is this such a huge deal? I don't understand why you see this as arrogance; they hold certain beliefs, and they're not FORCING them on you, they're just trying to reach you and expose you to them. You don't even have to be exposed if you don't want to, just turn them away from your house...?
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I see the Christian idea of whitnessing as arrogance, to me it says that "we have such a good idea we feel the need to go door to door and spread this belief." The majority of people that I have met doing this believe they have the monolopy on universal truth and morality. I would also like to pointout that christanity is one of the only religions with the arrogance to make whitnessing a part of its doctrine.
I'm an athiest and I think it is a pretty good system, rational, based in logic, doesn't have to rely on boogiemen and bad places if you don't follow archaic rules and it can change if proof to the contrary somehow comes into existence. That being said I don't even presume to be arrogant enough to go door to door and preach atheism. The first reason why is that it is both rude and presumptious on my part. The second would be that if people choose atheism it is because that is what they choose not because some religion salesman comes to the door and makes a sale.
Your main argument is that I don't have to be exposed to the message that they are delivering. Thats 120% arrogant because it both assumes that I don't know christian doctrine or I would be following it and that the message is something that everyone needs to hear. It isn't the message that upsets up, it is the arrogant mindset behind the way the message is delivered.