You're right--the Mormons usually aren't obnoxious.
I've read a bit of "the book" (I worked on the night shift at a computer center at the time, and one of the computer operators had just converted. I was bored.). It's written in pseudo Elizabethan English, and is unintentionally funny for that reason.
The obnoxious missionaries are typically Xtian fundies of various flavors trying to save your soul, or Jehovahs Witlesses trying to sell "The Watchtower."
I got rid of some persistent door to door fundies once by trying to convert them to Catholicism. The Catholic BS was still fresh enough in my head that they thought I was serious, and fled in fear of their souls or whatever...
Another time I pretended to be a pagan, back when that was not a common belief in the US (1970s). That worked too. The Winslow and the FSM are just riffs on the same scheme.
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I've read a bit of "the book" (I worked on the night shift at a computer center at the time, and one of the computer operators had just converted. I was bored.). It's written in pseudo Elizabethan English, and is unintentionally funny for that reason.
The obnoxious missionaries are typically Xtian fundies of various flavors trying to save your soul, or Jehovahs Witlesses trying to sell "The Watchtower."
I got rid of some persistent door to door fundies once by trying to convert them to Catholicism. The Catholic BS was still fresh enough in my head that they thought I was serious, and fled in fear of their souls or whatever...
Another time I pretended to be a pagan, back when that was not a common belief in the US (1970s). That worked too. The Winslow and the FSM are just riffs on the same scheme.