If i go to USA, how common is it to see a preacher on the streets

[Brian37]

I think mass media like the internet and cell phones but especially the internet, is making door to door and street preachers sales less relevant, although religious people still employ it.

Sometimes where I work some fundy will leave a tract in the bathroom on the sink, I simply throw it in the trash. I've had about 4 or 5 visits from door to door snake oil salesmen in my life. But it does happen.

I am more annoyed by my co-workers who demand my silence and submission on Sunday when they are blaring gospel music for 3 hours. They think they are being tolerant by not firing me, or arresting me. But if I raise one question, they puff out their chests and falsely accuse me of being the bigot. So I have to be the good Uncle Tom atheist and sit quietly at the back of the bus.

A doctor here was recently dismissed for repeatedly sending emails with prayers in them to colleagues and patients after being told by management several times to stop.

He believes that he was dismissed becuase of his religion and for highlighting shoddy care in the hospital several years back. Seems as though the latter argument has some merit, but the management of the hospital retorted saying that nobody was preventing him from being religious, rather a secular workplace demands that people keep their religious sermonising to themselves and not impose it on people who don't want to hear or listen to it.

Just goes to show the difference between here in the UK and over there in the US.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bir...m-24259649 The BBC article doesn't really go into depth. From futher reading it seems like he actually sent these quotes to quite a few people beyond the consultants he claims he posted them too.

And the thing is with them, it isn't so much they play that crap, it is more that they hog the radio every day. If I play 5 seconds of an ABBA song they act like I murdered their family. I hate more the fact that it is the same fucking station and the repetition. But it also pisses me off that they think they are being fair.

They don't want my "respect", they want my submission. "Fair" to them is when they get what they want without any challenge.

But again, it is human lack of understanding of our evolutionary behavior.

The truth of our species is that we are BOTH the alpha male and the subordinate depending on location. We are BOTH the majority and minority depending where you are located.

[Doubting Thomas]

Who is on the street that has no place to go, or the time to listen to a street preacher? It's the members of soceity the rest of you look past. The homeless, the addicts, and those who have to do terrible things to survive.

In the town I mentioned, there are few homeless or drug addicts living on the streets for them to preach to. Nor, I would guess, would they care to sit and listen to a street preacher. If they want to be preached to before getting help, there's the Salvation Army.

While street preachers aren't that prevalent, the door-to-door JW's are. Even the small predominantly Catholic town I live in now, I've come home to find copies of the Watchtower stuck in our front door.

Not long after we moved into our old house, a couple guys came to the door. One guy said that his brother-in-law or someone was looking at buying the house we just bought, and how would we like to go to their church? Naturally I declined. Come to find out later that some religious groups go over the public records of real estate sales to try to get new members to come to their church. Kind of creepy when you think about it.

[gall]

We don't have that type of thing here, so i've always wanted to hear a guy on the streets saying "THE LORD HAS SPOKEN!"
Etc... Just curious if it is common in some places in USA?

In the cities in my state I have been in I have seen a preacher on a box or stool at a street corner basically yelling at traffic a few times. No more than three times in 30 years.

I am sure it happens more than that but even in my bible belt town people will throw things at you if you try this sort of thing on the side of the road. Same with road side political demonstrators. Doesn't even matter what side you do that crap and hold up signs people will drive by and honk or drive by and throw trash at you.

Personally I try and bum money off of them if I see them.

[Doubting Thomas]

Personally I try and bum money off of them if I see them.

Good idea. If they refuse, then throw Matthew 5:42 at them.