I've never really been hassled by any religious folk. Hare Krishna's aren't all that common here, and I've only had jehovas at the door once who just handed me a leaflet (the watchtower, right?) after I said I didn't believe.

Sometimes there is a woman standing in front of central station screaming damnation to all us sinners. She looks like the cat-lady from the simpsons only bigger and redder. In general I find that rather more funny then threatening.

these people are so anooying,in fact i dislike naybody who tries to impose their religon upon someone else

I agree.

It's not a good strategy to scare people into being Christian because they will never be true Christian, just scared of what could happen after death. They have no time to practise. Where as what I would call a true Christian would be practising the positive aspects of the faith and leading by example, and not doing out of fear of going to hell. I guess that would attract more people anyway too.

It's a "You'll catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" kind of situation. Some people can just be off base with this.

Most of them are idiots.

A bunch of mormons asked if I believed in God and I said no. And they asked if I'm a scientific kind of person and I said yes. Then they said that they would show me scientifically that God Exists by getting me to pray and have him speak to me. Which obviously isn't a repeatable and measurable experiment and thus isn't science.

I like these preachers. They show people how awful it is to be a Christian and beleive falesly that everyone is lesser than you, which in turn makes you do crazy shit like spout off passages from a book written by catholic monks trying to extort the masses from 10% of theor earnings a 1000 years ago.

It's just like anyone else on the streets selling something. You think religious people are bad....

You should see the "Larouche" group... they're worse then any preacher.

If your wondering who the Larouche people are by the way....

the best way to put it would be a super left wing politician.

How left leaning?

He called Obama Hitler.

Compared Obama's healthcare to the holocaust... stuff like that... because it's not a single payer system... and I'd guess he thinks its worse then the current system.

Seriously, i'd buy a Subway Sandwhich every day at school just so i had an excuse not to talk to those wackjobs... because you literally could not walk past you.  They'd stop you ever fucking time trying to get you to go to a meeting or sign up for their email group.

It was easier to just say "I gotta get home before this gets soggy."

Well that's not the only reason.  Subway sandwhiches are damn good... but still.

^ wow, those guy seem pretty mad. I don't think we particularly have many people like that in Britain. Or at least I haven't seen any. I don't blame you for using excuses to duck away form them.

We do get lots of documentaries about an American group called "God hates fags", I don't know how prevalent they actually are over there. But they have quite a lot of TV shows made about them here because it is something we wouldn't usually get over here and something we would find controversial, so it pulls in the viewers. Anyway, those guys seem like intolerable assholes too.

^ That's the Westburough Baptist church. Which is mostly made up of one large family, run by an abusive drug addicted alcoholic named Fred Phelps. The group itself isn't that large, though on a protest front, they hit above their weight. It seems like protesting is all they ever do. Saddam Hussein even had them come to Iraq as guests because they wrote him a letter congratulating him for killing homosexuals, and saying that if the U.S. invaded, God would kill all the American soldiers.

They are certainly one of the more peculiar oddities of American Christian extremism, though I wouldn't consider them to be representative of... well... anybody.

I assumed that they were just one small extreme group that didn't represent anyone. I would imagine that the media give them more attention because they are the extremist of the extreme, and that's how they punch above their weight.