"Pure ignorance" defined

[venaja]

I made this new icon yesterday, and I can't believe I'm already using it. Am I the only one who sees the heavy irony in ranting about how conservatives butt into your private business and then arguing for gun control because people "shouldn't" have guns

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[ablysstic]

Most people, right and left, want to enforce their own morality on the rest of the population.

I know I might get into trouble for this somewhere, but I am most def going to agree with you but not on the issue of guns, on religion. I know it is such a sensitive topic, but it just gets my goose when I hear the missionaries over here express how they feel, I mean REALLY feel. They are here to convert all people into Christianity, that is their mission. They expect all of their new friends to move to their way of thinking about spirituality but yet they are not accepting of any other person's different view. They only see their's as the right way. In a way I think they are judging people, but they would never call it that

[venaja]

Proselytizing has always rubbed me the wrong way. I don't care how kooky or extreme your beliefs are as long as you keep them to yourself. Conversion strikes me as rather overbearing, and I've seen many unsavory tactics used. (With my grandparents, for example, it was the promise of friendship. I always thought friendship was based on mutual respect and understanding, not given as a prize for joining a club.)

While I personally find it distasteful and chalk it up as one of my biggest grievances concerning Christianity, however, I respect their right to do it. There is a difference between talking to someone about changing religions and making them change. Nonetheless, I do find it rude and disrespectful of the host culture.

[ablysstic]

Proselytizing has always rubbed me the wrong way.

Me too, and being form the Bible belt, I have had my share. I can remember many nights standing in front of a dance club cooling off from working up a sweat and having folks come up to me and ask me if I had been saved.

I have a local friend, C. She has recently come out and said that she has been hanging out with, M. a mission expat friend of mine simply to improve her English, not because she actually believed in Christianity, like she said she did. This had been going on for a little over a year. She did not really care about all of the Bible study sessions they did together. She only wanted to improve her English.

[venaja]

That's another thing I have a problem with: bundling proselytizing in with other more essential needs. I see those "Christian Children's Network" commercials all the time and it angers me. If you're going to convert them, convert them. If you're going to feed them, feed them. Don't say "I'll feed you only if you study the Bible with me."

[ablysstic]

EXACTLY!

religion conditional charity or assistance always winds me up. it just does not seem very fair at all for either side.