So in the past few weeks there've been a sudden onset of extremely passionate Christian groups in my school (NUS) trying to spread the gospel to unsuspecting passers-by. I got stopped once in UTown when I was having my dinner and once in Kent Ridge MRT when I was trying to meet my friend.
It is, frankly, extremely annoying. Not to mention the lack of common courtesy.
The first incident was when I was sitting alone, in UTown, looking gentle and pliant as my face and small stature tend to wrongly impression, with my meal half eaten and my spoon halfway towards my mouth, and 2 girls from a NUS Christian society came up to me and sat down at my table and started talking about Jesus. Really??? I spent the next 15 minutes trying to push them away (because I was too polite to be rude, dammit), while my food turned cold because it would be so damn awkward to keep eating when I have 4 eyes staring intently at me and giving me that serene we-are-going-to-enlighten-you-you-innocent-child smile. RUDE.
The second time at KR MRT station, I got tricked. I was rushing to meet my friend when I was stopped for a short survey which was no longer than 1 page, so I thought, why not? I assumed it was some kind of data collection, for we were in hospital and school vicinity after all, but noooooo, it was another Christian group trying to spread their gospel. This one believed in "Mother" female god and blah blah. Honestly, at the right time I would have been interested in listening, but I hate the feeling of being cheated and I repeatedly told the person "my friend is waiting for me I have 2 minutes to spare" but she kept talking. So I left without giving any contact information, and extremely put-off.
Really not the way to try and spread the gospel, guys. If anything, you're making more people wary and suspicious of anything remotely Christian-related. Christians do not have a good name because too many are overly enthusiastic and lack common courtesy.
My friend, for example, on the same day I was accosted by the KR Mother-god people, was also harassed by 3 different Christian groups in Faculty of Science. Yes, I used the words "harassed" and "accosted" because that's what they did. My friend was busy studying when they interrupted her study and forced her to listen to them, even though she repeatedly told them to go away. Extremely RUDE.
What is the point of forcing information on someone clearly repulsed? If anything, doing so will only cement their repulsion for the information, in this case "Christianity", which is entirely counterproductive. Wrong place wrong time, and RUDE.
Stop it. Just stop. You guys are giving Christians a bad reputation.
P.S. About the 30 Day Writing Challenge... I failed. Spectacularly.
