Some days...
Jan. 9th, 2008 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anne_dI just can't win.
We got proselytizers. I was polite. "I'm sorry, we aren't Christians".
Didn't work. She said, "Oh, that's okay" and kept right on pushing.
So I upped the ante. Politely. "We're pagan, but thank you anyway".
That worked. She thanked me for opening the door, I told her to have a good day, she left.
So Emily started in on me, because Emily is an agnostic (at the moment) and she felt that I was insulting her and limiting her rights, or something.
I explained that (a) I didn't want to go into the scope and variance of religious belief and non-belief in our household and (b) it wouldn't have worked anyway, since the woman didn't take "not Christian" for an answer. Then I walked away, because smiteage leaves such a mess on the carpets.
Now I, personally, am an agnostic of the pagan sort, but that's hard to explain and wouldn't have helped anyway. Maybe I need a pentagram plaque or a goddess statue for the front entrance (or just a bigger Buddha in the front garden). A Gaia in the front porch box, with the gnomes, the lawn flamingos, the hummingbird-on-a-stick and the wingéd piggy, that'd be cool.
Anne, I thought 2008 was going to be better, or at least less of the suck?
We got proselytizers. I was polite. "I'm sorry, we aren't Christians".
Didn't work. She said, "Oh, that's okay" and kept right on pushing.
So I upped the ante. Politely. "We're pagan, but thank you anyway".
That worked. She thanked me for opening the door, I told her to have a good day, she left.
So Emily started in on me, because Emily is an agnostic (at the moment) and she felt that I was insulting her and limiting her rights, or something.
I explained that (a) I didn't want to go into the scope and variance of religious belief and non-belief in our household and (b) it wouldn't have worked anyway, since the woman didn't take "not Christian" for an answer. Then I walked away, because smiteage leaves such a mess on the carpets.
Now I, personally, am an agnostic of the pagan sort, but that's hard to explain and wouldn't have helped anyway. Maybe I need a pentagram plaque or a goddess statue for the front entrance (or just a bigger Buddha in the front garden). A Gaia in the front porch box, with the gnomes, the lawn flamingos, the hummingbird-on-a-stick and the wingéd piggy, that'd be cool.
Anne, I thought 2008 was going to be better, or at least less of the suck?