How are Jehovah's Witnesses perceived in your country?

[Severus Snape]

^tl;dr admittedly. I said evangelists were the ones who were more vocal and specific about Hell, but if you read JW pamphlets, they insinuate that Satan influences people through rock music and things like that, and that by enjoying certain music you're somehow being "led astray" from the right path simply because the musician or genre in question does not have the same values as JW doctrine, so in my opinion it's same difference, and insulting your intelligence at the very least.

As far as wanting to know religion but not knowing where to look...well, that's what signs in front of churches are for.

Also, the Internet. Great resource, as is the public library. Religions need to modernize. We're in a world where answering your door is increasingly unsafe, and JW might be the least of your problems in some neighbourhoods, so yeah I don't like people I don't know knocking on my door and/or leaving stuff there. Nor should I have to waste my time telling them not to come. They can practice their right to religion in a church, and I can practice my right to no religion in my property and its secular periphery.

Oh, and I guess an explanation for my dislike of them is overdue. I didn't want to talk about this at first because...well, I don't want to give people who already think I'm a nutter fodder, but anyway. My mother's boss back when she worked for some home decking company was a Jehovah's Witness, and she had the utter nerve to suggest I should be "exorcised" (I'm assuming what was actually suggested was a deliverance or something along those lines in whatever JW do, but my mother put it in her Catholic terms and called it thus, hence the airquotes). Now, I wouldn't have known about this until mother dearest brought it up at the dinner table. Golly gosh, how charming, someone I've never even met suggesting I'm possessed by demons or something.

I realise not everyone of that faith is like her, but my exp. with JW [and most religious people, admittedly] has not been very good, so I am not fond of them. However, I don't think they should be persecuted as they have been throughout the times when in bulk they're basically annoying but harmless.

Also, to this day I remain unexorcised/undelivered and releasing Plague upon your world.