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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (59194)10/16/1999 12:11:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Sidney, "proselytizing" a la streetcorner-megaphone ranting or going door to door with tracts and zip-up Scripture is contrary to Jesus' instructions. It might have been more like Paul's idea, and I don't trust that misogynistic control freak further than I can throw him. Even more likely - it is a figment of modern Protestant denominations who take a "volume" approach to the conversion industry.

Jesus said true religion was helping widows and orphans - in my view that is the opposite of the modern, offensive concept of "proselytizing".

All I ask is the freedom to not be accosted by people who think they know what is right for me. And with your short post, you are endorsing the accosters. Worse, you are providing an airtight excuse for persisting in the invasive behavior. The content of that short post is totalitarian. Thought control, no less.

The Framers knew how self-righteous even the most well-meaning evangelical Christians (or Muslims or ...) can become. The "wall of separation" is not diabolical - it is divine. It is a protection against the excesses that come naturally to true believers.

Please consider this. You have perfectly capsularized the evangelical Christian dilemma - you cannot respect people's freedom and yet carry out the elders' command to spread the Word. Trouble is it is the elders commanding and not God or Jesus. The Big Guys insisted that the word be spread only to those who wished to hear. That sort of suggests being polite about it - and being polite and contented when the response is "No thanks".

Keeping organized prayer out of schools IS NOT a persecution of Christians - just like keeping guns out of schools is not an infraction of the Second Amendment. Think on it, I invite you.
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