Missionaries: What do you think of them?

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This morning I was woken up by a couple of Jehova's Witnesses pounding on our door relentlessly. My fiance answered and told them we were not interested and that was that. But ordinarily, that is not the case. They will not take no for an answer and continue to push. At my apartments, knocking door to door like that is considered soliciting and is prohibited and I informed the office who asked them to leave. But, I have had both mormon and Jehova's Witnesses come pounding on my door on multiple occasions. They are worse than telemarketers! Now, I realize that the bible says to spread the word of god, but it never says anything about pestering your neighbors and shoving it in their faces. I also noticed that these two denominations seem to be the worst about it. For me, if people try to push me to do something, it pushes me away, and so I have never and probably will never be open to religion of any kind. Instead, I have my own set of beliefs that I live by that you might call something like a religion, except that it differs from every known religion in the world. It kind of combines aspects of science and religion, and includes parts of all, as well as some things I personally believe, and is ever changing as my life experience expands. If I were to accept religion of any kind, it would have to be on my own terms. Now, here is my interpretation of spreading the word of god. If I were a Christian, or any other religion for that matter, my view of spreading gods word would be to talk to people who show interest in learning, either by asking directly or hinting about it in conversation, or those who attend church and other religious social gatherings to learn about god. I would not trespass on other people's property, pounding on their doors and demanding that they hear me. I would not stand on the street corners with a bull horn shouting out everything I believe. I don't know about the rest of this world, but in this country we have freedom of religion, which should include freedom to ignore any religion we are not interested in, but when people go out of their way to make sure everyone hears them, this is uncalled for. The bible also says love thy neighbor, yet many times with all denominations of christianity, I hear an awful lot of hate speech toward non-believers and such. Now that's a little off the topic of missionaries but it is part of the same problem. Far too often people in general think they are high and mighty and should be able to dictate what other people should be doing. I know for a fact that there are tons of people like me who are pushed away when faced with such things. What's worse about the missionaries though is that half of them don't know anything about the very holy books they supposedly follow. My ex fiance was Pennecostal and we had two mormon missionaries come to talk to us and we were actually nice and let them in, mostly because he wanted to quiz them and see how much they really knew. Now we all know Mormons use both the book of Mormon and the Bible, yet these missionaries knew next to nothing about the bible, the very book that all christian denominations are centered upon. So, anyway the point of this discussion is to ask all of you what you think of missionaries in general, and what you think of the ones wo don't know what they are talking about. I know personally even if I was interested in religion, talking to people who can't answer my most simple questions would not be encouraging. Also, whether you are Christian or not, what is your interpretation of spreading the word of god? Would you go door to door, stand on the streets and shout out, talk to people at churches and religios social gatherings and people who show interest, or how would you handle it. As for the hate speech stuff, I have seen that even among some myLotters. Well, I doubt a non-Christian quoting from their own holy book would change anything, but maybe they will think twice before speaking so ill of others who don't see eye to eye with them and repent for that sin. lol anyway, I am curious to see answers to this one so I better hit the post link or I'll be sitting here typing forever.