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But I'm beginning to have serious doubts about those who continually try to turn me against folks who are minding their own business...

Fatal logical flaw right there.

Please explain how it is....
...that a religion like Mormonism...
...one that has out there right now 52,000 door-to-door missionaries...
...can by ANY stretch of the imagination...
...be considered operating by your optimum standard of “minding their own business?”

You would think...
...with your spiritual libertarianism...
[a theme you keep repeating – see also post #80 re: “meddling” and post #92 re: “let[ting] people live their own lives” and the need for people to “mind their own business”]
...that you would actually apply that even-handedly.

But of course, no. We don't see a call from you to allow folks at home “minding their own business” to not have their homes' doorbells & door-knockers imposed upon to answer to the religious proselytizing of door-to-door Mormon missionaries. When a vanity is posted here, no doorbell goes off on your computer that coerced or provoked you to respond.

Yet that's not true with door-to-door religious panhandlers like Mormon missionaries.

Tell us, if spiritual libertarianism is so big with you...
...why the open-arms toward over 52,000 proselytizing home-imposers doing that for over 600 days each
...-- with 26,000 new ones replacing the outgoing ones each year
-- but if a FEW of us raise concerns on a thread over Mormonisms, it seems to bother you a bit?

Can you explain this contrast?

So in that case, I guess you have a problem with the Jehovah's Witnesses, too? They also go door to door, after all. What about the Catholic and Baptist Churches? They have missionaries all across the world...are they also meddling in other peoples' business? Fatal flaw? Not unless you're ready to condemn all denominations that go door to door and send missionaries across the globe.

From my experience, Mormons leave you alone if you tell them you're not interested in their church. That goes for the ones I work with, my friends that I shoot with, and the young men on their missions that ring my doorbell from time to time. In fact, they take the rejection with good humor and a smile. My friends that have offered to take me to church are still my friends, despite my declining their offers. So no, they don't meddle in my business, and I appreciate it. I repay them by not meddling in theirs.

But I guess my friends must be the few, rare, "good" Mormons, while the rest of them are evil, conniving, meddling busybodies for doing what other churches do as well, eh? Sheesh....

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!