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To: arun gera who wrote (58515)	1/8/2005 5:14:20 PM
From: LKO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Are you willing to change your religion for money right now? What price? 1OOK USD. Where do I sign up ? <G> Ofcourse my price is high and that for a poor person may be low. But both mine and his would be fine rational actions. And the proselytyzer offering me would be unethical sleaze but not illegal. I do get the point that there may be sleazy (a la Jimmy Swagart) conversion sellers operating in poor countries. There may be sincere ones too (a la Mother Teresa). Suspecting every non-native religious organization trying to do charity work is not a healthy way of viewing the world. If one goes looking for conspiracy theories you will find one everywhere including one that was suggesting that this Tsunami was caused by nuclear testing etc. I think that mankind has not changed very much for millenia. The most primitive men worshipped their ancestors. So do 95 percent of people today. How many people go out and consciously change religions? Most people will stay with their parents religion unless there is extreme pressure to change. Religion is introduced in childhood at a stage when the child has strong emotional attachment to the parents. (I notice that most religious people have a childlike belief in the myths of their religion, like believing in Santa!) So unless their is a serious conflict with the parents at a later stage in life, a person rarely explores other religions. All that you observe is very true. I am personally against this proselytyzing business but unfortunately I do not get to decide the rules of the religious game. But, Even if .0001% people decide to change their religion for whatever reason, in every society (including probably India), I think they should be free to do so. You can theorize their motivations is money (as you state), getting high (I know some who tried to convert to religions where marijuan is part of religious practice) or women/men ( I know people who converted to marry their spouse of another religion). However there is always a possibility they had a genuine conversion. If people in India do not like that, they should put it in their law or constitution and take it from there. This is just a Maurice style rant against an attempt to assign to a western conspiracy to every action.