This is poor work by you.
If you're going to write for communication, you should put down your word-a-day calendar and be more concise.
If you're annoyed because JWs are at your door and you have to walk down five flights just to find out who it is, notice that they didn't put you in that position... YOU put you in that position by picking a shitty place to live. (I find it hard to believe in the first place, because most legitimate callers would leave your step well before you made it downstairs.)
The turning point of the essay is that evangelicals are not earnest and are merely trying to fool themselves through consensus-building. The proof of this is left as an exercise for the reader -- which means, if you question that point, you can stop reading right there.
But I notice the trained seals on Bill Maher's show clapping excitedly at every statement they can find, without thought. I figure this consensus-building is part of human gregariousness, and we almost all do it.
Furthermore, if you actually asked a JW, you would have learned that most of them have been walking their beat for years and have not converted one single person. "Needing" consensus, really? But you came to conclusions about their inner thoughts and motivations
without actually asking them.
"They will get louder and more insistent." But your own answer to this is to preëmptively get louder and more insistent. We imagine you now being angry at the JWs, in the storyline you did not pick up by the end of your essay. We think it will make you feel marginally better about your shitty apartment choice, but have no impact on anyone else, including your targets.
But why take up arms now? Religion has been at the heart of much worse fascism than the W. administration. And we notice its power diminishing. The Pew organization
regularly surveys people about religion in their lives and we see the same trends in Europe happening here, albeit about 20 years later.
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The survey finds that the number of people who say they are unaffiliated with any particular faith today (16.1%) is more than double the number who say they were not affiliated with any particular religion as children. Among Americans ages 18-29, one-in-four say they are not currently affiliated with any particular religion.
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