Would you rather live in a neighborhood where: All the other families belonged to the same religion, but you don’t belong. About once a week you run into people evangelizing for their religion at your front door, despite your polite...
Do like the lady in the lateral thinking puzzles book I got from the library - answer the door in your coat and hat, and if it's someone you like, you "just got home". If it's the missionaries you "were just going out".
Do what I do. Keep a stack of Catholic (or religion of your choice) literature near the door to swap with the missionaries. Funny but they never seem to want to take MY literature. I just can't understand that.
We seem to have made it to the "do not call" list,too, but I think that's the dog's fault. But hey, I'll take missionaries over smelly garbage any day.