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To: Alighieri who wrote (178205)	11/19/2003 5:23:10 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577146

Al, I believe in the freedom to not be the proselytizee... The missionaries didn't force anyone to defy the will of the Taliban. Nor did they convert anyone against their free will. They courageously went into a highly oppressive society in order to bring to them the "Good News" of Jesus Christ. And people over there willingly accommodated them and did their best to hide them from the Taliban. It seems to me that these ladies were there on false pretenses. So they lied to the Taliban. Many people in WWII, especially Christians, hid Jews from the Nazi soldiers. When confronted, these people courageously lied to the Nazis, knowing full well the consequences if they were to be caught. They didn't accept the Nazi doctrine of racism and power, just like the missionaries and their accomodaters didn't accept the Taliban's doctrine of ultra-extreme Islam. At the end of the day, it would seem that their proselytizing was an effort to convert people from one religion to another...my God is better than yours kind of thing? I think you have a problem with Christians trying to convert people, that somehow it's a form of mind control. Tenchusatsu