Wondering how it is where you all live (extreme religiosity)

[PassingFancy]

57. Western Washington Here

I live about 35 or so miles south of Seattle, and I don't think my city of around 50,000-60,000 has an over-abundance of churches. I don't see a whole lot of people wearing or displaying overly-religious items either; but, I'm not out and about as much as I used to be since I've got some health issues that prevent me from being in crowds where people wear stinky perfumes and colognes.

I know in Tacoma, there's some mega-churches; but, I don't spend a whole lot of time in Tacoma either.

We used to get tons of LDS and JW's knocking on our door, as well as salesmen. So, years ago, I started putting notes on both of the front doors telling salesmen and religious people to not knock on the door nor ring the doorbell (the doorbell sticks and makes a horrible continuous buzzing noise). Well, one day that note didn't stop the JW's from going up on the porch and leaving their information (I also tell them not to leave their literature on the note I post). I happened to be pulling up into the driveway and saw them and got out of the car and asked them something like "don't you read?" To which they replied, "yes, but we thought you'd like to read our information." I then told them to leave which they didn't. I pulled into the garage and closed the garage door. I got in the house and went to the front door and peeped out of the blind and there they were, a woman of maybe 60, a woman of maybe 30, and a child of about 8 years of age standing on my porch. I opened the door and told them they were trespassing and if they didn't leave in the next 10 seconds, I was going to go out into my car and get something out of the trunk of the car (NO I WOULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT, BUT IT WAS TO MAKE THEM LEAVE I SAID THAT). They left.

These days, I have a more stern note on my door that tells all salesmen, religious groups, and political groups to not ring the bell, not knock on the door, and not leave their literature as we have our religious choice and we have our political choice and we don't buy anything from door to door salesmen. The other day, someone left an envelope with fundie literature and high-tailed it away before I could even see what it was and yell at them to come back and take their trash. I threw the stuff in the garbage can in the kitchen (I was cooking at the time and didn't need to be bothered with junk).