"The Newly Religious Freak"
I used to work in a company run by born agains and there were a high number of NRFs, many of whom tried to convert me at every opportunity. Funnily enough, the most fervent ones were just as you mentioned above, reformed drug addicts, alcoholics etc. Says a lot for your conversion if it only happened when you were at a very low point in your life and unlikely to be able to resist brow beating/brain washing by fervent prosletysers.

There was one person in that company who was perhaps the most ardent believer, yet would never dream of trying to convert anyone. He just lived his life in a very calm, kind and spiritual way. He was the most likely to be able to convert anyone purely by example. No chance with me though, I'm a dyed in the wool atheist.
( SteamedCleaner, Sun 4 May 2008, 5:25, Reply)