Are These Letters Common?

Strange letter. I find it odd that the letter is signed “B. Young” I wonder if that is a real name or a reference to Brigham Young, Joseph Smith’s successor.

I actually got a letter like this when I was in high school. Right before my freshman year, my family moved back to the town where my dad grew up and his parents still lived. After going to school there for a year or so (and not attending church) some brilliant mind in the youth group at the local Methodist church made the connection that my grandparents attended their church and I did not. So they bullied one of the girls from my high school (who I didn’t know at all) into writing a “we’d like you to be saved” letter inviting me to attend. Of course, I’d already abandoned all organized religion at that point, so the letter went to its proper home in the trash can.

No impersonal letter will ever convince me of anything, because when Christians try to proselytize, they never seem to realize that I might have reasons besides ignorance for not going to their church. My non-belief was hard won, and the day I convinced myself I no longer had to worry about going to Hell for my beliefs was one of the sweetest of my life.

That’s a Jehovah’s Witness tract. I was a JW for many years and remember offering this tract many times. We were encouraged to write letters of this sort from listings in the phone book or in an effort to reach a housholder in a security protected apartment building. Most of the time though, it was the older JWs or those with disabilities that could share their faith via this avenue.

I got a type written letter on my car windshield in response to my ‘fish ‘n’ chips’ bumper sticker. he left his phone number and everything.

I’ve gotten something similar, but I think they photocopied the letter and sent it out to many different people. I usually just throw these things in the trash without reading them.