So yesterday afternoon I'm minding my own business when the doorbell rings. I answer the door to find a couple of Mormons. I get into discussions with them from my agnostic viewpoint. There could be a god, who knows? But god could not be what is described in the bible. Any intelligent being (especially a perfect one) wouldn't behave as described.
So anyway, we talk for about 15 minutes. I challenge Joseph Smith's interpreting of the scrolls (or whatever). They stand by their beliefs and find nothing suspicious.
At the end of the conversation, I apologize for keeping them so long. They tell me it's OK, they enjoy talking to people. I reveal that I was once a JW and used to knock on doors too and that yes, most people were rude to us and wouldn't talk and I could relate.
OK, so we part ways. But that wasn't the end of it.
Later, I go meet up with friends at Hooters. They had some descent drink specials. About 11pm, in walk a couple of young guys and sit at a nearby table and order a 24-ounce beer each. It's the Mormons.
I was shocked. They seemed a bit shocked too. A little like they were busted.
Does anybody know Mormon religion. Or more specifically, "proper behavior" for their door-to-door preachers? Did they break rules to go to a place like Hooters?
I know it's just a restaurant. And what's wrong with ordering beers? But is it like the JWs? Where they'd frown on going to a place where women are in tight and tiny outfits? And they'd feel guilty being caught by somebody they talk to in field service a few hours earlier with huge beers in front of them?