minarchist
Regular Member
From reading recent threads here in the Social Lounge, I have become aware of a misconception here.
Some seem to think that if a religious person (or persons) approaches one or more non-adherents of that person's particular faith, and say something along the lines of "You should convert to what I am because of reasons X, Y, and Z." and if one of said non-adherents says something to the effect "Reasons X, Y, and Z are flawed for the following reasons.", then it is the person or person who were approached that are guilty of intolerance, and it is these people who were approached, rather than the people who started the discussion in the hopes of converting others, who want to shove their views down the throats of others. :shocker:
This is a peculiar attitude to find on a pro-self defense message board. Normally, pro-self defense people do not absolve the person who initiated violence and blame the person who defensed himself/herself. When the party that was approached by the party that sought conversion, the approached party is not, by any stretch of the imagination, guilty of shoving their views down the throats of the proselytizers when they merely give their reasons for disagreeing (often, the religious proselytizers will not take a polite "I'm not interested" for an answer, so giving reasons for disagreement with their religious views is tried next in order to have them leave you alone). It is as if these individuals think that if the people who were approached for conversion take any course of action other than agreeing with the evangelists without question and then immediately falling on their knees and converting to their religion, then those people are "anti-liberty atheist bigot control freaks" who are trying to force their atheism onto other people.
Religious person who aggressively proselytizes: a good person who is doing his or her duty as a member of that religion
Non-religious person who politely declines to convert, and when pushed, gives reason for declining: an evil, intolerant, liberty-hating piece of crap
It is both ironic and sad to see such utterly warped thinking.
Some seem to think that if a religious person (or persons) approaches one or more non-adherents of that person's particular faith, and say something along the lines of "You should convert to what I am because of reasons X, Y, and Z." and if one of said non-adherents says something to the effect "Reasons X, Y, and Z are flawed for the following reasons.", then it is the person or person who were approached that are guilty of intolerance, and it is these people who were approached, rather than the people who started the discussion in the hopes of converting others, who want to shove their views down the throats of others. :shocker:
This is a peculiar attitude to find on a pro-self defense message board. Normally, pro-self defense people do not absolve the person who initiated violence and blame the person who defensed himself/herself. When the party that was approached by the party that sought conversion, the approached party is not, by any stretch of the imagination, guilty of shoving their views down the throats of the proselytizers when they merely give their reasons for disagreeing (often, the religious proselytizers will not take a polite "I'm not interested" for an answer, so giving reasons for disagreement with their religious views is tried next in order to have them leave you alone). It is as if these individuals think that if the people who were approached for conversion take any course of action other than agreeing with the evangelists without question and then immediately falling on their knees and converting to their religion, then those people are "anti-liberty atheist bigot control freaks" who are trying to force their atheism onto other people.
Religious person who aggressively proselytizes: a good person who is doing his or her duty as a member of that religion
Non-religious person who politely declines to convert, and when pushed, gives reason for declining: an evil, intolerant, liberty-hating piece of crap
It is both ironic and sad to see such utterly warped thinking.