I'm beginning to hate religious people.

[Faith No More]

And if they actually want to make people more open to the Christian philosophy, they shouldn't be pestering strangers just trying to go about their day as that tends to have the opposite effect.

I'll never, ever understand why the evangelical types don't get this. I understand that they think they have a mission to save as many souls for God as possible, but they just seem completely oblivious to the fact that they're being completely ineffective at it. I don't know if it feeds into their persecution complex when people rudely brush them off, but you'd think if they really wanted to save people's souls they'd find a different way to do it. Shouting bible verses on a street corner or trying to pass out pamphlets to people who don't want to be bothered is not the way to win converts, let alone knocking on people's doors at 8 AM on a Saturday morning.

Maybe it's that they think the word of god is so powerful all they have to do is introduce people to it in any circumstance, no matter how bothersome it is, and people will just convert. I do think they get a bit of a thrill of being rejected though, like somehow spreading the word and getting rejected gets them closer to god.

Can you provide an example? Also, I'm not defending a particular form of evangelism, but it as a whole.

Yes, every time someone comes up to me to tell me about Jesus either at my home or while I'm on the street pushes me closer to being proactive in ridding the world of this virus.