We got some to come back twice.
The second time they brought reinforcements. They were perfectly polite until our Hebrew-speaking Israeli friend started to explain the flaws in some of their translations. Then they got a bit florid and mumbly and left. Finished their cups of tea first though. They're very well brought up.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 22 Aug 2012, 19:45, 3 replies)

I had some who insisted that Jesus was an angel
and I was ike, I'm pretty sure that he was half-God, half-human, like Spock in Star Trek was half-Vulcan, half-human, but I wasn't sure if that was what they taught them at the Watchtower, or if she was just an idiot...she brought her elders round to the house and it turned out that she was actually just an idiot.

But she did let me allow the idea of evolution into a child's mind who wouldn't previously have considered it, so I guess it's swings and roundabouts.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 22 Aug 2012, 20:03, closed)

I used to have a flatmate who was a classicist.
He was writing a PhD on Philo - a Jewish Platonist philosopher of about the first century, and apparently quite important in early Christianity.

Whenever the god-squad came knocking, he'd invite them in. He'd get down his Greek bible (he was fluent), and his Latin bible (he was nearly as fluent), and his Hebrew bible (a bit iffy, maybe - but good enough for his research), and his English bible, and he'd discuss the mistranslations and philological misunderstandings with them.

At great, great length.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 22 Aug 2012, 21:20, closed)

A mate of mine had a flatmate...
... whose father was a lay minister.

So the JWs would come in, say their piece, and A would sit back, listen, then rather theatrically polishing his glasses on his Slayer t-shirt he'd take a drink of his coffee, or tea, or beer, or whatever he was having, and systematically demolish every single thing they'd said.

Nothing gives you quite so much respect for a religion as someone who knows it inside-out and won't take any shite from the God-botherers.
(gordonjcp, Wed 22 Aug 2012, 22:59, closed)