I usually just be honest. If im busy, i just say so - but if im in the mood to discuss pantheism, the universe and what i think the soul actually is. Then i will gladly sit down and take these unwitting jahovas witnesses - all the way down the rabbit hole with me, spending hours discussing various points of every aspect of pantheism and the awesome points of shamanic history and amazing benefits of connecting through eye gazing,sungazing and earthing
Oh, back when I was in elementary school I had two of them come to my door. I was still involved in a less strict portion of Christianity. I was the only one home, so I stood there and listened to their pitch, then I talked with them. By the time they had left I had converted them. Lol
Then again, those were the old days. These days I believe in the one true God. FSM. May they all be touched by his noodley appendage.
Quite by accident I discovered an excellent method quite soon after I was first married. Knock, knock, at the door.
Me: Hello
JW: Hi we're going around talking to all the young married couples in the area. (In a syrupy American accent we so love to hate!)
Me: That must be very nice for you
JW: (Who has leapt to completely the wrong conclusion) Oh, I take it you're not married?
Me: (Never one to let a chance go by) Well, as a matter of fact, we're not!
JW: (Said nothing but beat a very hasty retreat as if the devil and all his mignons were on his tail.)
Interestingly a framed copy of our marriage certificate appeared on the living room wall about a week later!
"No, thank you. Have a nice day. Buh-bye."
Then shut the door.
If they stick their foot in it, push harder, take out your phone and call 911, to report trespassers.
Say "I'm a Witch." They'll cross the street when they get to your property line.
I tried, sorry I am not interested. But they always seem to ask why I am not interested and it turns into heaps of questions that they cannot answer as they stand there for 30 minutes in their Prada made heels. Making something up that does not follow any sort or means from their 'bible'.
I say it wouldnt be fair for me to talk with you, as obviously you need your belief system to cope, and talking with me risks you losing that.
I used to live on a farm, with a sign on the gate saying beware the Bull- someone had faith as I found a copy of Watchtower under my back door (210 meters into the property)
Tell them that God and the Devil are the same thing and then take them back step by step to the point where if God is omnipresent it must be in the Devil as well. Either that or there is a place where God isn’t which means that God Isn’t omnipresent and so not only the theology doesn’t work, the Systematic Theology Of JW philosophy needs to be restructured
Shew them away with holy water and or release the dogs lol
I invite them in and discuss how the ancient Hebrews were actually henotheists and I explain to them how there are many verses in the Bible that don't make sense until you read it with that understanding. They leave in a hurry and don't come back.
That said, when I don't have time, I just politely explain that I understand that it takes a lot of courage to go door to door and I admire their dedication to their beliefs, even if I view those beliefs as misguided. I then tell them that I'm an atheist and I don't have time right now because I need to sacrifice a goat to Satan.