Hey all,
So where I live, its a small town in the north, and in general its very quiet. Many of the local shops, like many smaller places in the UK, are closed and our very remaining places are mostly charity shops/coffee shops.
The point of my post is, I've noticed more and more that we're getting preachers in the town itself, almost every day at this point. It wasn't unusual to see "somebody" once in a blue moon, but it seems to be really ramping up here. In the cities there is always somebody with a speaker/microphone and/or a sign or something ranting away. If anything some of the nearer cities are at least more "equal" and have multiple different religions represented in that respect.
Here, where I live, we have people simply stood about with a stand full of flyers who don't speak unless you approach them [I think they are JW's], but more recently the 'crazy' type have been turning up - singing songs/displaying propaganda [one literally had a fake newspaper which headline said something about an Atheist deathbed converting] and otherwise generally being a pain in the ass. More recently we had a group of A-holes turning up during our local Pride Festival, which was a real low point for me personally.
Personally I tend to try and ignore it/them as best I can, but it's getting harder to do so.
Do you have anything like this where you live? How do you interact/deal with it?
So where I live, its a small town in the north, and in general its very quiet. Many of the local shops, like many smaller places in the UK, are closed and our very remaining places are mostly charity shops/coffee shops.
The point of my post is, I've noticed more and more that we're getting preachers in the town itself, almost every day at this point. It wasn't unusual to see "somebody" once in a blue moon, but it seems to be really ramping up here. In the cities there is always somebody with a speaker/microphone and/or a sign or something ranting away. If anything some of the nearer cities are at least more "equal" and have multiple different religions represented in that respect.
Here, where I live, we have people simply stood about with a stand full of flyers who don't speak unless you approach them [I think they are JW's], but more recently the 'crazy' type have been turning up - singing songs/displaying propaganda [one literally had a fake newspaper which headline said something about an Atheist deathbed converting] and otherwise generally being a pain in the ass. More recently we had a group of A-holes turning up during our local Pride Festival, which was a real low point for me personally.
Personally I tend to try and ignore it/them as best I can, but it's getting harder to do so.
Do you have anything like this where you live? How do you interact/deal with it?
