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People who come to the door with attempts of religious conversion
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 584324" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>nerfherder: Thanks, that was interesting. Thing about those who go door to door: That is not effective at all. That is why most movements which are big in converting people take another approach. They target vulnerable or friends, neighbours etc. of their members. And they know you get more bees with honey than vinegar. While I had been invited to religious gatherings time or two by friends (usually pentecostal) I only have understood how big this is even in our quite secular country after my difficult child's troubles leaked to public. After that I have been asked several times to this or that place so we could pray for my errant son by several acquaintances. Total strangers have called me and started to talk me about my son and how God can cure him. There has also been letters. Same has happened to husband in little lesser degree. And difficult child himself has gotten those calls, Facebook messages and letters even more. Even just a letters send to him to our address (his address is not easily available, ours is) make a quite a thick pile. difficult child is still young, was even younger when his mishaps came to public. He was living out from home, alone in the new city he only knew so many people. To be frank, I found some of those converters to be predatory. And I'm sure they don't put that much effort to 'save' every small time juvenile offender with addiction problems...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 584324, member: 14557"] nerfherder: Thanks, that was interesting. Thing about those who go door to door: That is not effective at all. That is why most movements which are big in converting people take another approach. They target vulnerable or friends, neighbours etc. of their members. And they know you get more bees with honey than vinegar. While I had been invited to religious gatherings time or two by friends (usually pentecostal) I only have understood how big this is even in our quite secular country after my difficult child's troubles leaked to public. After that I have been asked several times to this or that place so we could pray for my errant son by several acquaintances. Total strangers have called me and started to talk me about my son and how God can cure him. There has also been letters. Same has happened to husband in little lesser degree. And difficult child himself has gotten those calls, Facebook messages and letters even more. Even just a letters send to him to our address (his address is not easily available, ours is) make a quite a thick pile. difficult child is still young, was even younger when his mishaps came to public. He was living out from home, alone in the new city he only knew so many people. To be frank, I found some of those converters to be predatory. And I'm sure they don't put that much effort to 'save' every small time juvenile offender with addiction problems... [/QUOTE]
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