A New Kind of Outreach

My phone rang at 6 am. Who would call so early? “Hello?” I said. No answer. “Hello?” No answer. I heard people talking. A Christmas song was playing.

I kept listening. Now and then someone speed-dials me by mistake — while their cell phone is in their pocket, for example. By listening it becomes clear who it is. I heard people talking but they didn’t sound like anyone I knew. It was too early. They must be in a different time zone.

I made out bits of conversation. Something about religion. Then a voice became clearer. A woman was teaching religion. “The Constitution is based on the Law of Moses,” she said. My phone said Conference Call, I saw.

It was no accident. My phone number had been chosen at random. It was religious outreach, like Mormons knocking on doors.

A new kind of advertising.

One thought on “A New Kind of Outreach

  1. An unfortunately ignorant statement which only undermines their thesis: that the constitution was based on the law of moses. The motive of that statement was probably to support a conservative political viewpoint; it had nothing to do with actual theology, I speculate.

    More here about why the Constitution was not based on the law of Moses, although it certainly may have been informed by it, among many other sources: https://www.commondreams.org/views05/0303-30.htm

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