Yes, many times.
But this one was the worst. I'm at a hospital in Tennessee filling out paperwork for a up coming surgery. The receptionist as me " how are you liking Tennessee" I replied.. not so much, I'm not making friends very easy. I don't work, have children, or go anywhere.. she immediately invites me to her church.. No thank you, I reply. She's assures me they are very friendly and I would have lots of new friends. No thanks.. I say again!
She insists that I take the phone number and call them.. By this point I'm frustrated..No thanks ..
I don't want to go to your church!!
Why?? She asks. Because I say .. I'm an atheist!
Ohhh she mummers..I go back to my twenty pages of medical questions....
Fifteen minutes later, we are finally done.
So I think.. she's says I have just one more question for you.. I look up .. waiting..
" How does it feel to NOT be saved"??
I was floored!! I asked for her supervisors name and number and registered a complaint..
I'm not sure what happened.. judging from my experience in Tennessee, I'm sure it was swept under the table and forgotten.

The most memorable event I remember was in the late 80s - early 90s when I was volunteering at my local AIDS Resource Center. I was the only person that was HIV+ and willing to speak at a church. I was asked to speak at a chruch on the "Republican" part of town. As soon as I arrived, the minister started on me. I quickly advised him that I wasn't there for that. I had a job to do. Fortunately, they brought the high school Sunday school class into the room and seated them up front. I spoke mostly to them and started by telling them that four students at their high school had tested HIV+ at a recent blood drive. At this time HIV was still a "death sentence" so I educated them about safer sex practices. At one point I looked up at the older folks in the room and told them that abstinence only, isn't "education" and doesn't work. I told them that hormones tend to win out, and reminded them about the things that most likely went on in the back seats of their cars when they were teenagers.

After years of internalized shame and self-loathing imposed on me in large part due to religion, I reached a turning point and decided that I was going to love myself, be strong and loud, and not care what people think of me. I'm not sure if they were sorry I came, but I did my job, and hopefully prevented some teenager from being infected with HIV.

You can only be a victim if you see yourself as one. My answer is yes, I have and am right now, by a new and well meaning friend whom I think lives in a fantasy world. She hammers me with religious posts, so I hammer her back with secular philosophy and mythology and lots of science. If she asks me to read a particular book, I will tell her that I will and will discuss it with her, if she reads, for example, the God Delusion and discusses it with me as well. All I ask, from any friend, for that matter, that we have equal time to express ourselves and to listen to each other with respect and generosity of spirit. I put her in shock, probably as often as she puts me in shock about her strong held beliefs in invisible beings. She is a new neighbor, so it will get interesting soon enough. When someone wants to engage me and I have the time, I follow the rule of equal time. I counter anger, if it arises, with kindness and rude attacks on my character by turning them back by asking inward questions like "what makes you feel that way", etc.

I had to quit a couple of jobs because of aggressive, abusive religious people. This was back in the 70's and early 80's. Today I think they are less likely to preach to people in the workplace. Since 1990 I have worked in a government office and people are liberal. Some are members of churches, synagogues and mosques, but they are quiet about their beliefs. But oh, those bullying fundies I had to work with decades ago, they made the job very miserable for me.

Sadly, I have been the person who did the proselytizing.

I remember when I was younger, around my teens, the JW's and Mormons would prowl the neighborhoods in the area where I lived.
They even tried to catch us at the big park down the street from my house where my friends and I hung out. We would see them coming in their white shirts and ties and hop on our bikes and take off.
It got so bad at one point when I was a little older, that I quit slamming the door in their faces and I got a 'no soliciting' sticker to put on the front door. That worked.

@KevinD872 I grew up in Highland.

Do dolphins live in water? Is rain wet?

I have learned how to shut them down in a hurry, but I have to admit I get a certain perverse pleasure out of playing with them a bit before throwing them away.

Well Kevin, I’d say you’re at that tipping point age-wise … and it gets better.. When, if only through a rear view mirror, you can look them in the eyes and they can access your experience and wisdom.. they begin to let up, some.

I now feel like ‘everyone’s dad,’ and that’s ok, cuz I’ve earned it, and ‘fatherly advice’ comes naturally. Some honestly think they’re helping, and maybe at a point in their lives that bs helped them. But there’s definitely a limit, and when you’re paying them for an unrelated service, that may constitute the limit.

I don't care for the label "victim," because I don't feel the slightest bit incapable of defending my perspective and highlighting the foolishness of the proselytizer. But "target," yes, absolutely. Not long ago my own 80 year old father was the culprit. He means well, but oh, is he ever dense and dogged in his fixation. I spell out mountains of factual errors in his scriptures that he reads--I kid you not, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. He has no idea what to think of my homosexuality and thinks fawning over Jesus is the answer to every challenge in life. Most recently he couldn't help himself and just had to let me know he was worried for my eternal soul and that I "accept Jesus as my personal Lord and savior." Same old childish crap. Nothing will ever get through to him.

I was proselytized by the church of Amway 40 years ago. In my teens a guy I went to High School started working for my Dad-a nice Jewish boy-who tried to get me into Jews forJesus.

Someone 'pesters' you - and you drop subtle hints that it's not welcome.

They persist - and the subtle hints upgrade to clear, unequivocal statements.

If they STILL persist, then sorry - they have lost all right to be treated with politeness. You tell them to SHUT THE FUCK UP.

I grew up in SLC. It was a part of life.

I have always had a special hatred for those people that feel it necessary to come to my home and preach at me. I have found that answering the door buck naked and inviting them in usually discourages them. I did have a local group call the police,but I was wearing pants when they showed up,and since I hadn't ever gone outside,the police officer just laughed,and that was that.

Many year ago when in holiday in the USA ,i was at a party and a very charming lad got chatting to me. He was funny and charasmatic but quite religious. We ahad a good debate and ithink he saw apotential convert. He kept saying I was curious and that I was asking for religion in my life. I laughed it off and said I liked debating it but did.n't feel the need for religion it in my life.He was very confident but not too pushy about it,so we left on good terms...not normal I would say as these kind of situations can easliy go bad.
That was unusual as it was in a social situation,I do get those knocking on my door ,Jehovas Witnesses are rife here in UK,but Always talk to them too..I can't resist it lol

Yes. I’ve been my Muslims, Mormons, and Christians.

Unfortunately there are some religious people, particularly Christians, who believe their religion is the so called "Truth". And they think they need to convince you of "The Truth" but sadly they are not aware that what they view as the truth is simply a religious belief. As I have talked to some religious people, I don't have a problem if they choose to believe in a religion. To me, problems arise when these people go out of their way to push their religion on me, especially when I have made it obvious I am not interested in their beliefs. But I know how you feel. You would be astounded at some the strange things that have happened to me in Albuquerque, New Mexico with regards to proselytizing.

Many times have I been victim to this. Not just from Christians.