I don’t know many Jehovah’s witnesses. I do work with three of them and they seem to have a lot of anger and hostility toward the Catholic Church. One of them asked me, “How can you believe in a religion that was started by a Roman Emperor?” Or that, “You are definitley going to hell.” Obviously I don’t know much about their faith. I also am not here to make fun of them. It’s hard to get a feel for there beliefs from 3 people. Have other people experienced this kind of theatment from them? God Bless
I have had a JW come to my front door for months now. Her name is Jenny, and she is actually quite lovely. I was accepting her book graciously and we would have a little chat. I nearly invited her in, by was warned by others to not do this, otherwise they will not leave and they will expect it everytime. And I guess too, she might think I was ready to convert to JW.
When I thought I had returned to the Catholic Church, I told her this and she said that’s ok, we have many people of many faiths that accept our books and like to read them. I continued to accept them also. Then, there were things in there I just couldn’t agree with. I found they knocked the Catholic Church a lot, and pretty much any other religion.
Only last week, she came again. I was expecting her, it had been 4 weeks. She always comes every 4 weeks on a Wednesday. We chatted again, small talk as usual. Then she went into her bag to hand me a book. I told her, I didn’t want to take anymore of her books. That I was struggling to believe a lot of what was in there, and I thought it was wrong to ‘knock’ other religions the way they do in their books. She told me everything in there in bible based…yeah right…bla bla bla…I said, well you know my history (occult, spiritualism, buddhism) and that I was too open-minded to accept their beliefs…sounds crazy, maybe that makes me the opposite, hope you know what I mean.
So, she was polite and said she understood and if I had any questions she was happy to answer them. She left, but not before stating that when she’s in the area she will pop in just to say ‘hello’.
It was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. We did build up a bit of a friendship, but then I starting thinking that she was just ‘doing her job’ she didn’t really care about me. Needless to say, she is not ‘gone forever’. She will be back, and this, I think makes them quite pushy. Can’t take no for an answer. It has always bothered me that they ‘door knock’. Why do they feel it’s ok to push their beliefs on others like that. Catholic’s don’t, Baptist’s don’t, Buddhist’s don’t. Ok, Mormons do, I think it just them and JW’s isn’t it?
Guess, next time, I just need to be strong again, and say no politely then walk away.
I once had a customer approach me at work too, asking me if I accept Jesus. I was horrified that this man did this to me at work. This was a low act I thought. He was pushy and got very cranky at me when I told him, yes I believed in Jesus, he was a great man and healer, and regardless or what he believes ‘I believe’ I will end up in heaven. I have never forgotten that man, he ruined my day.
Blessings.
