John Safran vs. Mormon Door-to-Door Evangelism
by: Rev. DanAlong the lines of the “Athiest Fundamentalist” is this piece from John Safran, which made me literally laugh out loud more than once. The XTC reference makes the whole thing for me.
The rant/turnabout is basically fueled by annoyance at being woken up before noon to hear about religious dogma.
However… the Catholics don’t come ’round bashing on my door on Saturday morning.
The Muslims and the Buddhists don’t come ’round bashing on my door on Saturday morning.
Even the Salvation Army, who rock up with their trumpets, bassoons, tubas and tambourine ensemble, making more noise than Iron Maiden, have the common decency to wait until after lunch.
Would I be able to offer you a reading from 1980’s concept band, ‘XTC?’”
“Dear God, you’re always letting us humans down. The wars you bring, the babes you drown… and it’s the same the whole world ’round. Dear God, I don’t believe in you.”
A person in the comments for the video at YouTube points out:
“Also, around half of the SLC population are not LDS. I bet AT LEAST half of the people they spoke to were not even LDS.
According to a non-Mormon friend who lived in Salt Lake City, there’s a very large non-Mormon population in Salt Lake City. According to the same friend there’s a large gay population, but they rarely have trouble with Mormons because everybody more-or-less assumes that everyone else is LDS.
I really doubt that gays and non-Mormons “rarely have trouble with Mormon” because Mormons are so ignorant as to think everyone else is Mormon. It’s more likely that Mormons aren’t particularly interested in giving “trouble” to people on account of their faith or lack thereof.
./shrug That was more-or-less my friends’ take on it. My experience, when visiting Salt Lake City (as an adult), was that fireworks were legal and that the girls that give tours at the Temple are freakin’ cute.
I don’t think it’s an assumption based on ignorance, it’s probably fairly well-informed. There are now less LDS folks on average, from what I recall, but the percentage used to be much higher. It was pretty likely most of the folks you met there were Mormon.