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Oh, how enraging! I'd be furious too.
How awful. I agree with Mr. Blue --- best just to ignore people like that ....
Mr Blue is right.
And on a different note, big genealogist here (me)...ever need any help, lemme know. That goes for everyone. I've found that researching the families of others is much more rewarding than researching my own pathetic lines. 
I thought most of the Christian faiths had agreed not to evangelize amoungst the Jewry of eastern Europe because of the whole genocide thing. Is that over?
evangelizing is literally illegal in Israel... Mr. T's father got out of Romania as a 14 year old. spent a bit of time in Cyprus on his way to Israel.
Oh, see, I would've ignored the sage and most definitely correct advice of Mr. Blue and gone apeshit on that lady.
Man
So I stop by for just a little peak for ol' time's sake, and I find this. Geez! This pisses me off! FWIW, your decision not to respond saved you considerable frustration and further anger. It would not have been a dialogue. She has the answers, so she wouldn't have a reason to listen. Your words would be twisted and the ugliness of some brands of evangelical Christianity would be spilled before your very eyes. You've seen enough of that. Don't invite more.
In response to Liz, yes, most have agreed not to evangelize among Jews. But, the largest protestant denomination in the USA (southern baptists) went on record a few years ago as making the evangelization of Jews a priority. It's utterly disgusting the arrogance displayed in such resolutions! Ick! Ick! Ick!
It was breathtakingly outrageous for that woman to contact you under such pretenses, not surprising, but still outrageous.
I think it was a good idea not to respond, even negative attention is still attention. But I agree, another letter like that one, come out with your guns blazing.
I would LOSE MY SHIT all over her! OMG!
Well, what this particular woman of the cloth calls those kind of Christians is "assholes." I believe that is the theologically correct term.
Congratulations for keeping your cool and not responding. A response is a commitment, and like any salesperson, that's the foot in the door that they are hoping for.
Fucking evangelists.
PPB -- 
I wish all women (and men) of the cloth knew the theologically correct term for such things.
You, too, Friday Mom. I do have some way cool ministers among my commenting pixies, I must say.
Yeah, y'all are right. It was best to make no reply. But lead me not into temptation again...
Earl Jenkin TM, you gotta do a little better than that to get welcomed to the commenting pixie party.
Oy, JM, your lineage cannot be less illustrious than mine. Back in the days when I used to care enough to attend genealogical meetings, I would introduce myself as the only one in Jewish genealogy NOT related to any famous rabbis. But if I ever get back into it, I may ask you for help. (You are a Very Helpful Blogger!) It is very irritating of my family to have arrived through Baltimore rather than the web-accessible Ellis Island...
I'm with Friday Mom: Ick. Ick. Ick.
WTF?
I'm sorry you had to deal with that. I applaud your ability to let it go; I would have lost my mind. I'm furious now.
Evidently live and let live is a big no-no for many religions.
Even for a non-famous lineage Jew, you still rock.
I would LOSE MY SHIT all over her! OMG!
Hahahahaha. This is why I LOVE YT!
More precisely, PPB, fucking assholes. Doesn't that hit the theological nail more squarely on the head?
(Ssh. Don't tell my kids I dropped the F-bomb.)
((And, PS, aren't you worried about the number of clergywomen amongst the pixies? We could be secret agents.))
Songbird, I am tickled to death at the number of clergywomen amongst the pixies. And, no, I am not afraid that you are secret agents. I find that the assholes are easy to spot, because even when they are trying to ingratiate themselves, they make glaring errors that betray an inability to read the rules of any given social interaction. It makes me wonder if social illiteracy is a prerequisite for fundamentalism -- perhaps seeing the world in rigid terms is their way of compensating for an inability to make sense of ambiguous social situations.
APL: yes. You would love YT even more in person...
And I love all-o-y'all.
Sheesh. Can I just say evangelicals make me queasy? Can I say that evangelism was one of the reasons I left the church? See, even my little mainline Methodist church saw it as its mission to go out and actively "convert" folks. I don't mind a postcard now or then telling folks that the church welcomes visitors, but I draw the line at asking neighbors and acquaintances much less complete strangers to come to church so that they can get Jesus in their life. Egads.
I just find it so offensive, and I argued thus to the minister and some of the powers that be—not that I found any success whatsoever. Of course the church didn't find much success either, since the few "unchurched" people in the area are rather adamantly so. If you have a sick sense of humor, though, it's sort of amusing watching the various sects run around "evangilizing" only to canablize each other's congregations.
How about this? Spouse's cousin and her husband were missionaries in Hungary working to save those poor souls stolen by G-dless communism, and the protestant evangelicals sure the hell weren't about to let them fall back into the grasp of Catholicism. Poor Hungarians...
jwb
Yuck.
As a former evangelical/fundamentalist baptist, though, I can definitely say your hubby has the right idea. There is nothing you could say that would have shown her how offensive she was being, and the angrier you got, the more she would have been convinced of the rightness of her actions. I speak from experience.
Hey I just had one of those stealth evangelists comment on my blog.
Anyone want to have some fun with him?
There's no fun to be had with spammers of any variety, Friday Mom. I say, delete him and ban his IP address.
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