I tell them firmly that I am not interested and if they argue, I tell them that if I were to worship a god I would go with Thor... he is hot and has a big hammer. Then I slam the door.

I deal with them the way I deal with my spam calls...don't answer..

I show them all the scriptures where God loves people, is angry, kills people, is jealous, all-knowing, has a chosen people, and where he condemns all prophets, and pastors. I show them that this is called manic behavior and that HE needs Prozac.

I put a sign on my front door when my children were small. It said, "Positively No Traveling Salesmen, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons or any other persons who ring this doorbell after lunch till at least 4:00 pm. After that, I will discuss most anything with you if you will feed the baby while I make dinner and fold the diapers. PS I don't make open door contributions. I make contributions by check to deserving organizations." That took care of my problem.

I say "No thank you" and that ends it.

I tell them that I am not, and never will be, interested in hearing what they have to say. I ask them to never come again. Or I just don't answer the door.

Does this happen often for you?

I've lived in the Pacific Northwest or the Bay Area most of my life and I cannot recall this happening more than 3 times in 40+ years.

After relentless knocks from Witnesses, I got fed up and told them to go away and stop harassing me at my home and that worked.

After a time this is what did - a no treaspassing sign and what I say when they knock. "What part of NO TREASPASSING" did you miss? and I shut the door.

apolgetics are for atheists and fundamentalists. So if the person you are talking to is one or the other that is cute and fine but immaterial. I approach them with curiousity. The last Mormon at my door ended up talking to me about his awesome dungeons and dragons campaign. for 30 minutes.

if you feel the need to be hostile to a religious adherent who is not being a dickfuck then go get in therapy. half of the awesome humans I know are religious they rock...I just think their beliefs are idiotic. meanwhile, some of my atheist buddies have had atheists break their hearts. life is not about propositional concepts. it Is about not being a piece of shit (imnsho)

I like knockers. lol And since my door bell doesn't work, door knockers would be great. (Just kidding people.)

I still live with my parent's and we don't get door knockers. We got Jehovah's witness before and mom told her she has her own belief and told them goodbye and shut the door on them. xD When I have a place of my own and if someone comes to my door... i'll probably be like "No thank you. I don't like liars and being lied to, have a nice day!" and shut the door.

I tend to be much nicer to religious people coming to my door than I am to people trying to sell me something. As long as people are respectful when they ring my doorbell, I am respectful back. The Mormons and Jehovah's witnesses tend to be very nice while salespeople tend to be pushy and rude. Nothing makes me angrier than having to ask more than once for a sales person to move on. The religious types always seem to respect my space and leave when asked.

I have posted a no soliciting sign and that has helped a bit. I don't engage at all. I don't think I need to be polite given that they are encroaching upon my time and space. I usually use a curt "Not interested" and start to shut the door. My grandfather liked to have more fun with them. With a twinkle in his eye, he would say, "Lady, I sold my soul to the devil during the War for a bottle of whisky. You wouldn't want me to renege on a deal would you?"

Kindly and respectfully ask them who or what created God and send them away

I love talking to them, honestly. I know more than most about the Bible due to my tortuous twelve years of Catholic school, so I can generally talk circles around them about Christianity (and many other religions). But if I don't have time, I tell them that the topic of religion is too personal and I'm not going to discuss it with any-old-body that knocks on my door or approaches me on the street. My grandmother was Methodist and employed the same tactics, and I really admired her poise and non-impositional approach to belief.

But if they approach me with hateful shit, I'm going to become incredibly rude.

I used to live in Utah and one EARLY Saturday morning, my husband answers the door to some LDS folks. They told him they were the for a “fast offering” (Money saved by fasting from the day before, as I understand it). My husband, completely oblivious, though they meant, “fast offering” like give them whatever you had on hand, STAT! He apologized and told them he didn’t have any cash on him and sent them on their way. I was crying when he told me about it after. Hysterical.

The following Saturday, they came again, well before 9am. This time, I answered the door. I explained that we were not LDS, and they could take our house off their list. The older man (he was with two younger guys) explained that the offerings were used to support everyone in the community, not just LDS members (which is unlikely as LDS friends who received help were made to step up their attendance to get assistance). I told him we weren’t interested, and to please take us off their route.

Finally, the third Saturday, they again woke us early, and I’d had it. I told them that this was three times now we’d turned them away (ha! Like Peter, we denied them three times) and enough was enough. I closed the door, called the stake house number and spoke with our ward (neighborhood) bishop. That finally accomplished it and I got back my Saturday mornings. I was probably too nice the first time, but I don’t like being nasty to people, if I can avoid it.

And once...the CATHOLICS came to my door. I was raised Catholic, and that was a Twilight Zone moment for me.

Generally, “I’m not interested, but thank you for stopping by and have a nice day” is my go-to for the most frequent flier visitors, the JWs.

I talk to their children about pagan festivals and great parties - they usually make their excuses and leave quickly.

once when I answered the door two ladies started in reading passages in the bible. flipping back and forth reading this one and that they eventually ended the discussion with "thats why everyone needs to find god". I answered that if I were allowed to choose what order sentences in a book should be read I could predict the end of the world using the phone book. They never came back( phone book ,obviously this was a long time ago)

I love it, when I have the time. They are usually kid and good people. When I ask them pointed questions, refer them to their own bible they get agitated because their faith is so very fragile. I always invite them back, but they never come back. I feel sorry for them.

Like this:

That really depends on them. I've run the gambit from "do you blokes want a cuppa?" to "get off my property." This is dependant apon their response to "No thanks we're atheists."

The few times it has happened I will politely listen, I will take and actually peruse literature. if they ask I will even bow my head in prayer with them. Doesn't hurt me any to be a decent human being.

I tell people at my door, or on train platforms or wherever they are preaching, that I am Jewish. This seems to instantly drive them away and, as an added benefit, greatly amuses my 20 year old daughter.

I have only ever had young LDS missionaries knock on my door. As a former member (I left the church as a teenager) they are usually trying to track me down to invite me back to church. A few firm but polite, "no thank you's" usually does the trick. These kids are so very young! I feel quite sorry for them.

I always chat with them if I have time. For the most part these are good people who were indoctrinated or deluded just like I was before leaving religion. And just like me they are usually ignorant as to how much harm their religion can cause, so I try to bring that up in our conversation. I also explain how and why I left Christianity. The Mormon interruption is annoying but they're not the enemy. They’re just people convinced of something silly.