Questions for those who come to your door to Proselytize

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AtheistTony's picture
Questions for those who come to your door to Proselytize

I would like to put together a list of 5 questions to ask anyone who comes to my front door to proselytize. How many time have you said to yourself, "I wish I had been ready for those nutbags". The questions should directly challenge their religious/superstitious beliefs. The point is to turn the tables on these people. I would like the list available to anyone so they can print it out and place it near their front door (or have it handy on their smart phone).

Please submit your questions and I will compile them into a list that we all can share or from which we can create our own short list. My approach, once I have the list, will be to politely ask the proselytizer that I will listen to what they have to say if they can first provide me with satisfactory answers to some rather pressing questions. Feel free to make some questions specific to a certain religion, e.g. Morman, Latter Day Saints, etc

Let's get this going so we are ready for that next knock on the door...and let's have some fun.

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CyberLN's picture
This is one that can probably

This is one that can probably be used on most of them but it's important to have examples specific to the sect that comes a knocking. Ask them if the tenets of their religion are immutable. If they say yes, challenge them (e.g. Mormon doctrine changed its stance on black men in their priesthood in 1979). If they say no, ask them why on earth, then, are they proselytizing about something that may, in fact, change.

Zaphod's picture
Assuming now that you believe

Assuming now that you believe in your God what would it take you to not believe?
Assuming now that I don't believe in your God what could you provide me as indisputable proof of your God's existence?
Do you feel I need to prove your god does not exist?
Would you feel it necessary to prove that Zues or any other god does not exist ?
would you believe in a God if I could not prove he existed to you even though you expect me to so for your god?

Of course, all these questions could be broken down into further subcategories but they could possibly be the 5 most pertinent I could think of after 8 drinks.

CyberLN's picture
I had a snake as a pet for

I had a snake as a pet for years. He was adorable and was quite the cuddly type. He was hanging out not my neck and shoulders one day when the Watchtower people knocked. I answered the door and Zanzibar, being the curious sort, reached out from around my neck to look at them. Got a couple of gasps and looks that pretty much said, "Nope!" They turned and left...rather quickly. No need to say a word to them. Some snakes make great pets and they are fabulous when the proselytizing peeps knock at your door!

PINKO's picture
One of my personal favourites

One of my personal favourites when the christians come a callin' is "and on what day did god create the dinosaurs? This generally stops them - but only for a second or two....

Zaphod's picture
Dinosaurs were apart of the

Dinosaurs were apart of the whole beginning and the end bit, so they have not been created yet. They will be created before the metaphorical 12th hour on the last day months before the time apocalypse and will be coined in the future by the religious as demonosaurs! Right after mans cloning experiment gets out of hand spawning the demonosaurs who will reproduce and evolve faster than anyone ever thought and overtake the world. It will all lead to a concentrated effort by humans to perfect time travel and go back to before the demonosaurs were created. However, a group growing desperate will raid a lab culminating in the event of successful time travel gone wrong. In a panic inadvertantly while raiding the lab the machine is being worked on will accidentally send the whole world back way further in time than they ever expected to not only to before the demonosuars were created but rather before life on earth was even possible.

Simultaneously another lab with a copy of a biblical handout which quotes the begining versus of Genesis will have a similar event and the scientist working on time travel there along with a neighboring zoo will be sent back to a much later time some six hundred million years later. In the process they will all be wiped of their memories and find themselves in a wooded setting with many many peaceful animals equally as dazed and confused still able to read they will follow instructions found in the partly burned pamphlet.

LOL Oh well that was fun!

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