proselytizing

Oh where to start oh where.... Other than that the statements are belied thoroughly by what the New Tall tales actually say Jesus said about hating one's own kin an kith to be worthy of the cult leader.... and other than that history definitively rives to smithereens the assertions with...

Source. It's about time this was reversed.

I did some work with a small prison population in the US recently, in an education-oriented setting. During a group discussion, we raised the issue of religion in prison; inmates maintained that they were only partial to certain groups, i.e. Islam and evangelical Christianity, because these were...

http://www.detnews.com/article/20100623/METRO/6230376/1041/LIFESTYLE04/Christian-ministers-challenge-arrests-at-Arab-fest They were arrested for "disorderly conduct", which seems to really stretch the meaning of that offense to where it can be used to arrest anyone for anything. They might as...

What do Jehovah's Witnesses do or say when Mormons come knocking on their door? And what do Mormons do or say when Jehovah's Witnesses come knocking on their door? This may sound like a joke thread, but I'm genuinely interested.

We have lot of Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons coming onto our property in this small town, knocking on our door and wanting to have a discussion about their beliefs with my husband and I. We both hate it, and my husband strongly thinks that to have someone trespass our domain to speak about...

Two Jehovah’s Witnesses come knocking at my door, we discuss faith and what the bible says about killing, slavery, homosexuality, and more. I bring up Flying Spaghetti Monster and hilarity ensues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvYaOIlFMqw My wife thinks I went a bit overboard, but I was trying...

According to this news item: Dalai Lama urges respect The Dalai Lama believes that respect for other religions trumps proselytizing. There is no need to convert from one religion to another; "all different traditions have (the) same potential to bring inner peace, inner value, and therefore...

Here it is; the long awaited second part to the "Forcing A Religion" poll. The twenty statements are of a more forceful sort then the ones in the previous poll, and were inspired by the previous poll's respondants. Sorry, no "Planet X" responses. If you absolutely must use one, please refer to...

The above quote was taken out of context, but it had me wondering what people think that such force entails. So, I listed 20 possible examples of common Christian behavior, and ask you to check off all of those that you consider "Forceful". Note that the "Planet-X" option is included.

Priest?, Preach? Church? Crusade? Someone's overdosed on the religious vocabulary, deliberately ironically or not. I hope this won't be a rebranding like the controversial "brights", but I like the follwing quote, sounds a good enough reason to go: full report here...

"United States Air Force Academy morphed into the Rocky Mountain Bible College" A Vietnam veteran and retired U.S. Air Force colonel writes how the Air Force Academy he attended 40 years ago has changed, and how influential the evangelical proselytizing has become...

I sat them down and we compared Catholic and Mormon notions of the Trinity. It turns out, that Mormonism is polytheistic, holding that Creator, Jesus, and Holy Spirit are three distinct beings united in godly purpose. After some wrangling, I pointed out to them that this is functionally no...

According to MSNBC Scarlett Johansson quit Mission Impossible 3 not because of scheduling conflicts. She quit because Mr. Cruise was pressuring her into joining scientology. I wonder how many of Tom's other co-stars have been victimized by his proselytizing. ...and right on, Scarlett...

*shy wave* Hi everyone! This is the question that finally caused me to stop lurking and start posing: To what extent, and in what way, do you personally proselytise skepticism? (I'm asking for advice, as well as purely out of curiosity) I used to be an uncommitted skeptic - that is, I didn't...

I wonder what would have happened, if the pilot had said: 'If you are a Muslim, raise your hand. If you are not, you're crazy." Oh, well....I'm sure the pilot could get a government grant for his "faith-based" initiative...

My morning cartoons were interrupted by the doorbell. Looking in the window I saw a guy in white shirt and tie, guessed it was a missionary and was right. Spent a good half hour debating with him. Probably a little taken aback when I said had read the bible and book of mormon. Told him how...