true dat.
but even when I myself was a devout christian, I had an unspoken sense of the provocative, condescending, and presumptuous nature of most 'evangelistic' practices. And even though I was told that people would go to hell if they didn't 'see the light' I wasn't particularly willing to engage in propaganda-style attempts to cram the light down their throats.
So having been a christian, in the past, and one who refrained from overt evangelism, out of an instinctual respect for others, I tend to be somewhat impatient with evangelistic types now that I am outside of that faith.
I can tell you, as a former insider, that for the most part, such evangelical work is actually very self centered. There is an undercurrent of belief that you yourself may be damned if you don't evangelize enough, or that your reward in heaven will be greater if you convert more people, etc. It's often not stated quite that bluntly, but it's definitely there in some christian denominations. and the whole basis for that form of evangelistic work is purely self serving in a very sort of anti-altruistic, Ayne Rand way.
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