Why do Christians proselytize?

[Doc Dutch]

nah. she is trying to say islam is not a prostelytizing religion, going off cherry picked ignorant personal anecdotes.

lol@dumbness.

LOL ^^^^ Speaking of dumbness. You have my vote to be the first JPP member to murder Americans and/or commit suicide/suicide-by-cop. Get help, son.

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LOL ^^^^ Speaking of dumbness. You have my vote to be the first JPP member to murder Americans and/or commit suicide/suicide-by-cop. Get help, son.

go slurp on your bag of dicks, melvin.

[Doc Dutch]

go slurp on your bag of dicks, melvin.

Is that what you did during your militia initiation, Fredo? Ask STY how many dicks he sucked....I'm guessing none because....wait for it...you're the militia dummy. LOL

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Is that what you did during your militia initiation, Fredo? Ask STY how many dicks he sucked....I'm guessing none because....wait for it...you're the militia dummy. LOL

your hallucinations are getting worse, melvin.

[Cypress]

Some Christians reach out to others because they think there are tangible benefits to being a Christian...and want to share those benefits. I think there are benefits to reading...and often reach out to share that thought in order to share what I perceive to be the benefits. It seems to be to be a natural thing to do.

Very few actually lecture others. I think you are misreading most Christians in that regard, BP.

I have personally never met a Christian who suggests that if one does not convert...that person is de facto immoral. Are you saying you have?

Other than the Mormons who occasionally knock on my door and leave literature, I can't think of a time when I have ever been actively and aggressively prostilitized.

I have been studying Stoicism for the last month, so I recommend Stoic practices. I guess I could be this board's token Stoic prostelitizer .

Aggressive prosteletizing strikes me as something associated in situations where you have totalitarian situations or where there is a State run religion. The Taliban are infamously intolerant of any kind of religious diversity, the Pentacostals just scare me, and the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China were notorious prostlitizers of atheism.

[Doc Dutch]

your hallucinations are getting worse, melvin.

What hallucination? The one about STY bragging about violently murdering Americans in a WSE attempt to overthrow the US government or the one where you're a violent racist, antisemitic patsy?

[Trumpet]

The Christian Faith has been perverted and altered by the far right to be used as a tool for the the purpose of indoctrinating the not so intelligent with right wing ideology.

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What hallucination? The one about STY bragging about violently murdering Americans in a WSE attempt to overthrow the US government or the one where you're a violent racist, antisemitic patsy?

more lies, melvin?

grow up, please.

[Cypress]

actually it's atheists who insist all morality is religious dogma.

they do not believe that morality exists even though it's rationally derived.

this gives away why they hate god, they love evil and their own narcissistic rage.

^ fucking stupid

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^ fucking stupid

do you believe all morality is religion based?

[Cypress]

Okay. There are all sorts of weirdos here.

But out where people are not shielded by anonymity, I have not met any.

I have personally had more atheists be hard-assed about proselytizing atheism than Christians proselytizing Christianity.

But, I acknowledge, that may just be me.

I have been registered on this board since 2006, and I am pretty sure there are more threads and posts by atheists stating that anyone who is religious is irrational and stupid , than there are by holly rollers telling us we are going going to roast in hell fires if we don't convert to their religion.

On the other hand, the Holy Rollers have a terrible habit of using religion as an excuse to attempt to legislate away the rights of people they don't agree with.

[Cypress]

do you believe all morality is religion based?

No. Stoicism, Epicureanism, Aristotelian ethics are not based on any specific state religion or theistic practice.

Your post and this thread were about Christianity.

That didn't give you licence to take credit for the moral metaphysical vision of Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism.

[Frank Apisa]

I have been registered on this board since 2006, and I am pretty sure there are more threads and posts by atheists stating that anyone who is religious is irrational and stupid , than there are by holly rollers telling us we are going going to roast in hell fires if we don't convert to their religion.

On the other hand, the Holy Rollers have a terrible habit of using religion as an excuse to attempt to legislate away the rights of people they don't agree with.

Yup!

I have an agnostic perspective of the issue of "Do any gods exist?"...and have always been met with a great deal more anger and recriminations from atheists than from theists.

Here is my position:

I do not know if any GOD (or gods) exist or not;

I see no reason to suspect that gods cannot exist…that the existence of a GOD or gods is impossible;

I see no reason to suspect that at least one GOD must exist...that the existence of at least one GOD is needed to explain existence;

I do not see enough unambiguous evidence upon which to base a meaningful guess in either direction on whether any gods exist or not...so I don't.

(When I use the word "GOD or gods" here, I mean "The entity (or entities) responsible for the creation of what we humans call 'the physical universe'...IF SUCH AN ENTITY OR ENTITIES ACTUALLY EXIST.)

I seldom get any flak from Christians on that position...but atheists often tear into it as though only a moron would accept it.

[ThatOwlWoman]

actually it's atheists who insist all morality is religious dogma.

they do not believe that morality exists even though it's rationally derived.

this gives away why they hate god, they love evil and their own narcissistic rage.

Fascinatingly stupid, but not surprising given this nonsense's source.

[ThatOwlWoman]

To what do you attribute the difference?

AFAIK, there's only two versions of Islam. Both come under da’wa. There are about 2B Muslims on the planet.
https://fullerstudio.fuller.edu/proselytizing-in-islam/

There are thousands of versions of Christianity among the world's 2B Christians. Like Muslims, Christians are commanded by their religious dogma to spread the religion. Due to the wide variety of Christian denominations, some are more assholish about it than others.
I'm guessing you didn't have any Islamic Jihad folks in your class.

Two other factors to consider are the facts most people are good and total numbers of believers/demographics. If only 1 person out of a thousand is a fucking asshole, the odds of meeting an asshole in a school of 500 are small. Increase the school to 10,000 and the odds increase proportionally.

In the US, there are less Muslims than Jews and a vast majority of Christians. Specifically, Protestant Christians as students of history should know and understand why.

Given all humans are nearly identical, including being good, the odds of running into a Christian asshole are much greater in the US than in running into a Jewish or Muslim asshole. It's just a matter of numbers. Go to Iran, Israel or Ireland and the numbers change with the demographics.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion...ndscape-study/
Christians 70.6%
Jews 1.9%
Muslims 0.9%

Mainstream Xtians (Catholic, Methodist, etc.) don't tend to evangelize others like some of the more extremist (Assembly of God, far-out Baptists) do. As to why I've never experienced Islamic proselytizing? Probably numbers, plus the ones who I interacted with were obviously moderates rather than extremists. Extremists of all flavors are very keen to "share the word" whether that word is about their god, their glorious orange tyrant, Amway, or the latest diet craze.