Interesting compartmentalization on two fronts: (a) The word "they" -- as to who is represented by "they"; and (b) Why don't you give the same "corporate identity" to Christians like Elsie as you apparently do Mormons???
Allow me to explain:
Ya know, 95% of the Mormons lads & lassies who come to your door are aged 18, 19, 20. A few "ticks" %-wise are 21-23. The rest -- perhaps 3% at best -- are older.
Yet even tho the overwhelming % of Mormons who come to your door are either teens or barely 20...we don't see you telling the alcoholic eligibles within Mormondom (21 & over crowd) to "get a bicycle, & take it to" others' "doorsteps, like...everybody else." Why not?
Well, the "why not" is that you apparently accept the notion of representation: These 21 & over Mormons are -- apparently in your mind -- represented by their younger lot who act as door-to-door "peddle" pushers.
So, let's reverse that, shall we? I know of at least one specific Christian group -- and I'm sure many others exist or who've made the rounds in the past -- those who've been door-to-door-stepping within Mormon-ornamented Utah County...home of BYU...just over the previous two years.
Yet, apparently you don't grant Elsie the same principle of "door to door" via representation that you seemingly accord older Mormons?
Do you see the obvious double-standard here? Mormon adults are not seen as sitting on their duffs because other Mormons represent them door-to-door; yet those Christians who DO go door-to-door in Utah don't (in your mind) represent other Christians who aren't ringing doorbells in Utah.
Tell us: Why the double standard here?
‘Christians’ used to go door to door.
Now it’s Jehavahs Witless and mormons that do that.
I saw, was witness to, and heard those that sat in a megachurch on Long Island, NY, for 8 years always be reminded that their ‘field’ was right outside the church entrance doors. Did they? No. They were more satisified with sending folks outside the country, and supporting them, than going the two blocks to the nearest homes, and working out from there. I asked the entire ‘30’s singles’ group if they ever thought to go to the veterans in the Northport V.A. hospital. Their answer, to a soul, was:
“We can’t do that! They are crazy and we might get hurt!” So secure in the field of snakes, they were!
So, double standard? Maybe, from your P.O.V. From mine, whether it is because if they don’t, somethiing befalls them, but they GO, whereas these tongue talking armor of god folks, who had no threat against them if they did not go, did not.