okay so, I used to go to church with my Great - Grandmother in a way to be closer to her ... she has passed away since and I hadn't gone back there for years because I lost interest and everything (It's a Mormon church so they can get pretty persistent and radical),don't get me wrong everybody from the church is nice and everything the Elders/Missionaries always try to get me to go back (of course I don't really want to go back) they also to come over to read from the bible and give me teachings, but I have politely told them it is pretty much falling on deaf ears with me because I'm not interested ... but they keep coming back (one of them kind of got the hint and asked then why do I still invite them in to teach me .. but they just show up so I don't really invite them! ... rude) and one Missionary/Elder seems to be that little bit more into it all than the other one which is annoying so how do I (again) politely turn them away?
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Faith is a very personal thing, we all need to worship, or not, in our own way. You should explain that you have a more personal relationship with your God and wish to practice your faith on a more intimately level on a personal basis. They would surely understand and respect this. Unless they have some kind of recruitment agenda, which most organised religions do.
that's a good idea actually when you put it that way :), that's what my mother has told them that she feels she does enough good in her life and is happy enough and that she doesn't need religion to feel good and everything, once I do tell them that HOPEFULLY they do understand and I believe you're right about the recruitment agenda ... they asked me if any of my friends would like to go to church, when they do that kind of thing it makes them look desperate to get more people and that's kind of sad even though they come off as nice but still because the times I have gone (in the past) there was just hardly any young women my age there that I could get to know and get along with ... :/
that's a good idea actually when you put it that way :), that's what my mother has told them that she feels she does enough good in her life and is happy enough and that she doesn't need religion to feel good and everything, once I do tell them that HOPEFULLY they do understand and I believe you're right about the recruitment agenda ... they asked me if any of my friends would like to go to church, when they do that kind of thing it makes them look desperate to get more people and that's kind of sad even though they come off as nice but still because the times I have gone (in the past) there was just hardly any young women my age there that ... :/