What do you do when religious people come to your door?

I don't have it happen very often, but if I do, I politely listen to their introduction, take whatever publications they are offering, but firmly and politely tell them I'm really not interested.

When I was younger I used to have to listen to them because my father was a Jehovah's Witness and would send people to my house to talk to me. Well my father has passed away so I no longer have to appease him..lol Now when people come knocking on the door with religion on their mind....I simply say no thank you I am Wiccan....Boy to they leave quick.. They probably think... Wiccan...she's a witch... run before she turns us into toads...hehe Blessed be, Mari

well i have to be good with them and invite them inside my home and even its boring but what can i do ??? i feel embarrassed if i didnt welcome them thats what i think !!!!!!!!

We have one of those spy holes on our door, so if we're not expecting anyone we spy through to see who is at the door and if it is religious people we ignore them and they go away, since we have been doing that they havent been knocking as often!! I know ignorance is not nice but it beats having to pretend your interested and then suddenly turn around and say 'no thanks'.

When religious people come to the door, I say NO THANKS right away and shut the door. (I do not give them a chance to talk.)If they keep knocking I tell them through the screen window (I DO NOT open the door again for them, so they know they are wasting their time,) that my own faith has it's own literature and NO THANKS again! Than I close the window and refuse to acknowledge them further, no matter what they try. I DO NOT take their magazine, as they get a certain number of points for either talking to you with the door open about religion, or points for getting you to take the magazine! The more points they accrue, the higher ranking they eventually achieve in thier church..so I am not willing to be used by them in this matter. (Find it highly dishonest on their part.) If the individual is a Jehovah, go give blood and get an "I GIVE BLOOD" sticker and leave it on the door. They do not believe in the usage of blood, even in an emergency, so most will just go away. You can also put a sign on the doors that says "No Solition and NO JEHOVAS!) By law..they cannot knock if you have those. If they do..promply call the police and have them picked up for trespassing and follow through, as they will not bother you again! (It isn't that I am not interested in various religions and that I do not read their philosophies. But I do it in my own time and do not like intrusions into my home/day by these rude people!)

I am totally up for chatting to anyone, I would like people to give the time of day so I try to give that back too. And she had a point, our world is somewhat doom and gloom! But I do see it as crossing the line when pushing certain ideas at you; as long as someone who knocks on my door is totally open to debate then I see no problem with it. At least you'll be totally filled in abour armageddon! ;)

I have only ever had Jehovah's witnesses or Mormons come to my door and it really has only happened a few times. I greet them warmly and let them know right away that they are dealing with a born again Christian. Then I firmly and politely thank them for their time and tell them to have a great day before closing the door. As soon as they hear that I am a Christian, their eagerness disappears and they leave without any further discussion.

I use to have that very problem, I would be as kind and nice as could be but even though I would say: I'm busy or not interested, they would keep on talking their crap and go from one house to another even though all my neighbors hated it but didn't know how to chase them away either. One day a bunch of of those religious people were coming up the steps, so I flung open the door and said: You're just in time, we need some human sacrafices, and don't bother going to the neighbor's, they're all down the basement putting on their black robes!! It was sooooo funny! You could see the color drain from their faces, ha ha ha!!! One day a few weeks ago one of my neighbors said: I wonder what ever happened to those religious people who where always coming around and all I said was: who knows, they probably found a bigger neighborhood to go to, ha ha ha! (I never did tell any of my neighbors what I did a year ago)!!

I always try to be polite, as I dont believe in being rude to religious people. But gee, some of them test my patience. I always say "no thank you" politely. There is one religion that is usually two men dressed in suits. They are polite & accept a no thank you straight away. There is another religion that wont accept no for an answer. It is often a female, male couple, & for a few ears now they often drag along a child with them. They find it much harder to accept a no thank you. It could be the same religious caller as the old lady you had call.

There is a lady that keeps coming to my door every month. I was nice to her at first even though her religion is not like mine. She comes to my house every month and i no longer answer the door because she always brings me more pamphlets to read and the last time I spoke with her, she asked me for donations. I don't have money to donate. We live in the country and she drives to each house because we are spread apart. I am just wandering who is paying for her gas and how these people get by with soliciting?

Well the lady was just spreading the word of God,so i would have listenened like you did ...I would have told her that i knew the world was in doom,which it is and i would also been able to tell her that i was a believer because i am...If she continues to come back you will just have to nicely tell her that you are not interested thats all you can do...I know the Jehova witneses have come to my door before and i just tell them nicely that i already have a religion...

This depends on how much time I have available. If I am too busy, I just make my excuses and close the door. If I have some time, I can enjoy an interaction.

Hey well I do not live alone at present but if no one alse was home or when I get my own place I will most likely just slam the door in there face but it does not help that my parents just so happen to be lds.

I hear them out, afterall they are doing the work that Jesus and his apostles did. Jesus commissioned us to carry on the work. However, it sounds like this woman is the same religion as myself and my advice to you is that if you're really not interested, then let her know because she probably will keep coming back. However, if I were you I would hear her out because she speaks truth and in this day and age we need that more than ever. There's no hope otherwise. I hope it all works out for you

well coffee.. i tend to not answer the door if i am not expecting someone. . also we live in the basement apartment and our entrence is on the back end of the house, so they dont realize most of the time that there is even more then one dwelling here. But a few HAVE made it past all the obsticles and have knocked on my door. . I politely told them i was not interested and when they persisted (as they usuall do) i told them i was in the middle of lunch, or dinner or snacktime for kids.. something, anything that's not rude to get them to leave really ;) eeeh I bet that lil old lady will be back.. she's going to try her best to save you now that you paid attention to her coffee ;)

I used to have a lot of people knocking on my door when I first moved into my house. However, once I had finished redecorating the place and revamping the garden, they simply stopped coming up my path to my front door. It may have had something to do with the gargoyles I had placed either side of the front door, or possibly the dragon door knocker, or it could have been the lovely stained glass pentagram a friend of mine made for my porch window.

I've had the experience of knowing some of these (overly) religious people before they became religious. In many cases they were just drifting, like a ship with no anchor. Getting religion seems to super motivate them, and I think this is a good thing, but for the rest of us it can be a bit hard to take. I remember one man in particular. He was a mechanic who worked for the public in his own Garage, He was the dirtiest talking man I have ever heard. It was so bad that even though he was a good mechanic I quit using his services. Then he got religion and became a Jehovah's Witness. His life changed almost over night, and after that when I went to his garage he tried to convert me too. After listening to him for a while I took the time to explain to him that I already had my own beliefs and please don't talk to me about religion any more. He took my advise and we became friends.

I haven't had religious people come to my door in a few years. For sometime there were some Jehovah's Witnesses kids that would go door to door and we would simply tell them no thank you. I after a while they would come through my neighborhood so much we stopped answering the door.

Nevr feel sorry for them, they will latch on to it straight away and you may not get rid of them!! I made that mistake once. I have had it all over the years, in the end I just told them I was not interested at all, I was not nasty but neither was I kind, I have not seen them since. I am hoping that they have now got the message.

You are so much kinder and nicer than I am. My kids usually get to the door before I do, and if they go up there together, sometimes they will make comments to each other in efforts to get the person to leave before they open the door. In general I'm busy doing something else so I will ask them to just tell the person we're not interested. I don't appreciate unwanted and/or uninvited visitors to my home, whether they are religious, selling something, or otherwise. I need to hang up a sign stating 'no solicitors, period'. I'm not interested in hearing about any of it, no matter what package it comes in, old person, young person, either gender, nice or not. Occasionally I do buy fund raisers from kids but only if they are not obnoxious, don't recite a script from memory without letting me comment, and I actually have some cash. I have a funny story about how my ex and his friend handled a religious visit. My ex is a non practicing mormon and his friend is/was some branch of catholic. When the door knock came, ex kept doing what he was doing. Friend started yelling to shut off the lights and pretend nobody was home. After making all that noise and ruckus, they did finally open the door (because the person didn't go away) and the both of them decided to give the name of another friend of theirs AND his address so they could start mailing info. This other friend of theirs started receiving all sorts of mailings from this church! After a month they finally told him why.. and he wanted to KILL them! I do have to say it did get the witnesser off their doorstep.