Just got doorknocked by a recruiting volunteer from nearby New Life Fellowship church. I told him that we're Taoists, not interested in any churches, have bad church traumas, gave him back his leaflet & said we don't have anything against you, personally, but we don't want anyone else from your church, knocking on our doors again. Thank you. Have a good day.
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Some door to door church recruitment volunteers are easier to deal with than others. The guy from New Life left pretty fast & wasn't trying to be pushy. I've had to be more weird/aggressive with pushier, less respectful religious recruiters from LDS churches. Had to scare them off by pretending to put curses on them, only speaking in Teochew & that got us blacklisted from their future doorknocks because they think I'm a crazy Asian witch.
New Life Fellowship church, 1 block from our house, is full of MapleMAGA folks. Lots of anti-science/anti-vaxxer/anti-maskers. Even if I didn't hate churches - I actively avoid being near any MapleMAGA people.
It's really weird they even tried knocking on our door. Our front yard is full of Chinese warrior & Buddha & Guan-Yin statues, anarchist signs/stickers & a large Palestinian support flag.
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I always say this and shut the door.
"Ἀπὸ παντὸς κακοδαίμονος
Apò pantòs kakodaímonos."
They don't understand ancient Greek, but no matter.
"Away from me every evil spirit" (or idiomatically, "Begone, all evil demons!").