Comments on: Why Mormons evangelize in twos: The power of pairs

By: drinian

drinian — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:38:19 +0000

Oddly enough, I had a friend who spent a summer going door-to-door canvassing for MaryPIRG ("the environment is in danger, so give me a check right now!") and he said that folks in poor neighborhoods were much more likely to give away their money right then and there than were those in wealthier neighborhoods. He covered Potomac and the notoriously liberal Takoma Park without much success, actually. In any case, I thought this was going to be about missionary dating.

By: William (green)

William (green) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:50:38 +0000

I’m fairly certain it’s because most people use religion to justify and explain everything that is out of their control or that they don’t want to deal with. “I don’t care” can be rephrased as “I’m leaving it in Gods hands!” or something similar, which sounds… Well, it sounds stupider, but I’m decently confident that the average American would look down less on someone saying the latter than the former.

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:57:16 +0000

T2A`: “Know thy enemy.”

Ed: Yeah, I’ve never once been bothered by evangelizers, living as I do in Potomac, MD. They definitely seem to go after “low information” (i.e. poor) neighborhoods.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:25:24 +0000

I’m sure there’s also some kind of strategy regarding the areas that they choose to cover in their deambulations. When I was a poor nobody living in social housing next to the steel mill they use to knock at the door about once every fortnight, but since I managed to fight my way out of it and finished my degree I have never seen them again.
I always turned them away politely but one of my neighbours (firefox – uk spelling) used to invite them in and offer to test his condom collection on them. They never accepted but maybe if it was just one instead of two, who knows… That may be another reason why they go in pairs.

By: T2A`

T2A` — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:45:28 +0000

Who cares? They both cunts. :]

By: Jeff V

Jeff V — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:21:38 +0000

My first thought when I read this was “I guess that was O’reilly’s plan on the factor. Invite one conservative, one hairbrained person that is supposed to be representative of the entire left and it will be a two on one every night”

By: Kelly Martin

Kelly Martin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:08:01 +0000

I once had a pair of Baptists try to convince me to come to their church. Within 10 minutes, I had them earnestly arguing with one another about their own religious beliefs, at which point I shooed them out of my house. It was sad, and funny, all at the same time.

Also, there’s no excuse for cursing at Mormon missionaries. Those people are perfectly polite and deserve nothing but courtesy in return. You should, however, refrain from offering them coffee. :)