Never in a million years, and I hope it never happens. My local church priest was linked to high profile drug dealers, so you're having a super lucky time =)

Edit: You know, I thought it was the set up to a kick ass joke. "So a preacher pulls up in a driveway..."

where I used to work there was an overtly religious guy, obviously it was a big deal to him but.. well he was a little odd. He'd engage in religious discussions now and then with others sort of at random (which I, as the manager, had to stop before they got out of hand)

One day he sits next to another employee at one of the computers we used and asks him. "Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your lord and savior?" to which the other guy replies, "Uh, Im Jewish" religious guy's answer:

"What does that have to do with it?"

I have two guesses... either he was the cheapest guy in town, or a family member "suggested" him...

I had two friends that got this way, and used to call me all the time. I'm pretty sure they got the hint when we changed our phone numbers, and told all our mutual friends that, if asked, we fell off the planet, and were no longer reachable.

Huh, nope, never happened to me. However, to get married in my family's church, my wife and I did have to agree to raise our children Catholic. She's agnostic and I'm a lapsed Catholic, so who knows what will happen if we ever have kids.

I actually was that guy, for a while...

I'm sure Duffman has some amusing stories. And Fletch_101 actually lived with me at the time, though I haven't seen him around GWJ lately...

Ha, nice try.

I was in high school at the time and was in the city's university district: kind of the typical half-cool, half-dive business area that seems to spring up just off campus. My friends are ahead of me, and I get surrounded by this group of pretty big guys. Initially, I'm pretty alarmed, because one of them closes ranks rapidly.
Then he offers, "son, have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior?"
And I swear to God it sounded and felt exactly like a threat (partially because this wasn't the South [son?!], I couldn't have been more than 3 years younger than these guys, and this guy had little concept of personal space). I tried to convince myself I imagined that, what with them being Christian and all, but as I tried to back up, the larger evangelists behind me closed the ring. So I figured, huh, this is new.
I told them I was, in fact, a Christian. They asked me which church, I mentioned a local Catholic parish, to which they reply (Polypusher, I swear I'm not stealing this from you), "But son, that's not Christian."
At which point I lost hold of the guffaw that burst out and politely informed them I had always understood it to be the original Christian group, and we even had an infallible leader that could back that claim up.
Still, the space between my shoulderblades was itching as I shouldered past him and walked away.

Ouch. I tend to get one visit a city from the local preacher. We talk for fifteen minutes, he sees I won't join his congregation, we wish each other the best of luck, end of story.

Sometimes, I love living in Europe.

This was actually our last choice as our other locations fell through. The church was cheap and literally 3 minutes away from our house. Mahinae actually made a point of asking him to leave out his bible readings from the wedding, or, atleast a lot of it and gave him something else to read. Well, I've never heard so much preaching and sermon in a wedding in my life. It felt like at that point it was just spite.

That's how this guy came on. He and his friend got out of the truck and approached me like I owed them money. I've never really felt that threatened on my own property but I think those two didn't know that enthusiasm looks a lot like outright agression.

Can you do that with a weedeater?

That's what if feels like! That's exactly it. When they come in so rude and overbearing it feels like they are trying to sell me something. They've gone from wanting to save my soul to fishing for a juicy comission.

There's a very nice essay on this exact issue written by an evangelist with half a brain here. Don't be put off by the citation of Left Behind, it's part of an ongoing series of literary critiques of the books.

In all honesty asking for that was pretty rude. You don't go into Taco Bell and ask them to make you a hamburger, right? Then if you're not religious why get married in a church by a preacher? Though he was predictably childish in his response.

That said, I've had people come to my door and it's pretty damn rude. The way I was raised I tend to think they've got good intentions and just don't realize they're being jerks. However the last time it happened, I even told them I went to church regularly (which I don't) and they still accosted me for 20 minutes. I think Christianity and evangelism is simply an excuse to them so that they can get away with being assholes and everyone has to pretend to be nice to them.

The best preachers I've ever known never go door to door except to visit with people. If you see them in the supermarket they don't spend 20 minutes cornering you by the baked beans giving you their sales pitch, they just say hi and talk with you like a normal person. I can't imagine the preachers who do stuff like in the post above have alot of happy followers in the congregation.

My grandfather was the guy that always opened the door in his underpants, sometimes even nekkid when people like that knocked on his door.

Same here. Getting out of it, however, took 20 months. You pay either way.

Since nobody ever tried to persuade me to be(come) religous in such way, there is one thing I don't get. Is there a particular problem in simply saying that you are not religous (if you truly are not, of course) and like it that way? I sort of think that it should do the trick with any reasonable person. Am I too naive?

I don't know what would I think if somebody keeps pressing me after I declare myself in such way.