Ah Autumn, time for the kids to back to school, and time for the “missionaries” to go door to door after preparing all summer
It’s that time of year again folks – Bible Thumping Time.
So far I’ve had visits from some Jehovah Witnesses, a pair from the Church of Later Day Saints (though I did like the Toronto Maple Leaf tie), an assorted batch of Baptists, a Bob Jones U. guy, and for the first time a Jew for Jesus (guess I look Jewish or something). Of course they all seemed fired up about the “end times”, because ‘obviously’ that’s what Hurricane Katrina heralded
But this year there has been something new: the random “evangelical” phone call to try and save my soul. It’s a bit like a telemarketer, but instead of a boiler-room dropping me a line, it’s ostensively a concerned Christian worried about my soul – though I do gotta wonder if calling long distance to Canada to “talk frankly with me” about God, the Bible, and Canada’s heathen ways is the best use of their time and money…
All of this of course has made me nostalgic for the days when my street was a “no-go zone” for the fundamentalists coming to convert – thanks to the fact that by some fluke of statistics one block had 2 current Professors of Theology from UofT, and 1 retired Professor of Theology (my old neighbour), Apparently it wasn’t “safe” to discuss doctrine with these folks, mainly because they could dance circles around the door-to-door folks… or in the case of my late neighbour, actively try to undermine their convictions (he always went for the junior of the pair of Bible pushers).
Now has anybody else noticed an increase in the “flock” this year? Or is it just my neighbourhood that has been “blessed” with this Biblical plague
Bible Thumping/Pushing Time again
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