I found this really important tiktok about what to do if a Jehovah’s Witness or Morman missionary comes to your door:
I spent some time in a Jehovah’s Witness church. They’re exceptionally skilled at recruiting people into their church. (And I was an ATHEIST)
I left after a couple months, I stayed just long enough to see that they explicitly believe women are inferior to men, and of course, that homosexuality is a sin on par with murder.
The whole missionary door to door thing is NOT how Jehovah’s Witnesses recruit. That is how they convince their members that the world is out to get them. One of the first things they teach is that Jesus requires you to try to convert non Christians to the faith. (They say non Christian but mean non JW.)
Then they say, “look how people treat us, just for the crime of wanting to save their soul”
They have long time church members tutor the incoming members to smooth the process over. They’re trained to smooth away any doubts you may have about the church.
It is a textbook cult but because it’s a Christian cult, nobody will do anything about it.
Can someone make a transcript of this video?
Tiktok user: Hazel.j.hawlik
CC: Here’s why you should not try to scare Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses that come knocking on your door.
It might be funny in the moment to say “Oh, sorry, I can’t go to church on Sundays. That’s when I sacrifice aborted fetuses to Beelzebub.”
But it can be damaging in the long run to anyone that is thinking about escaping their cult.
People who are in cults are told that the outside world is evil, and while they might not like the conditions of the cult that they’re in, they’re guaranteed that the outside world is ten times worse.
And you trying to scare them away can reinforce those beliefs.
What’s recommended by cult experts (and cult escapees) is that you take the time and listen to them if you have the time.
Then you can politely deny, and say “Sorry, I’m not interested,” or “Sorry, I’m (this other religion).”
I like to give snacks or bottled water to anyone.
If it’s Jehovah’s Witness kids, I like to ask if they watch Caleb and Sophia, which is a popular Jehovah’s Witnesses cartoon.
The idea is to plant the seed in their mind that the outside world isn’t so bad and that they can leave if they want to.
Excellent thank you for this transcript!!
For Mormons, realize that these are 18-21 year old kids who usually feel extremely pushed to leave everything they know behind and go somewhere else to proselytize as their entire job for two years. Part of it is to more deeply cement that they are different than the rest of the world. They also give up basically all media that isn’t related to church.
And you do not have to talk to them about religion, or take the lessons. Say you are comfortable in your beliefs, and ask if they’d like a beverage (Don’t offer alcohol, coffee or tea to be a dick - soft drinks or water) or bite to eat, ask how they like the area, if they’re adjusting well, etc. Another thing is that Mormon missionaries will jump at the chance for service. Ask them if they would like to help you weed the garden, go deliver supplies to homeless shelters, or do other service work, and you can give them something else to do for once as well as showing that non-mormons are just like they are.
Note that they (especially women missionaries) will not go alone with people of the opposite sex.
Oh, and since Covid-19 sent all Mormon missionaries home, the new tactic is trying to approach people over social media. If they’re wearing a black name tag in their photo, that’s a mishie trying to digitally knock doors. Be courteous, but you don’t need to listen to them proselytize.
You hate yourself so loudly. You hate yourself at the top of your lungs. Your loathing for yourself permeates your speech. “Sorry I’m just rambling.” “Don’t worry about it.” “Just ignore me.” “Sorry if I’m annoying you.” “Sorry I don’t make sense.” “Sorry about that.” Sorry, sorry, sorry. You act as if you have to beat everyone else to the punch. As if the punching bag is you. If you hate yourself first, if you hate yourself loudest, then nobody will hurt you. You clapped your hands over your ears and shut your eyes and balled yourself up so that you’d never have to experience people’s loathing for you. And it meant you never heard their love. You drowned it out. You screamed your hatred over it. And you never got to hear it.
Reblogged 3 years ago from tuusday
