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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Atheist above. I actually don't mind the evangelizing as long as they don't go after children or helpless old people. I have never been attacked by an evangelical, in my experience, they have been more gentle. [/quote]

An evangelical approached me in an airport while I was reading a humanist newsletter (I think).  After a short while, I asked if she were trying to convert me.  "Yes" she answered cheerfully.  I told her not to bother and she went away.[/quote]

Proselytizing means forcing someone to become religious against their will. Nobody in America can be proselytized. People can talk with others about God and religion- but once someone tells you they aren’t interested- they should be left alone. That’s why I don’t buy the atheists who say they were attacked- they don’t say how or why or who attacked them. People who are religious don’t attack people while speaking to them about God or religious beliefs. Who would listen to or be receptive to a person who was “attacking” them?[/quote]

Proselytizing does not mean FORCING someone to convert. It means trying to convert someone, period. [/quote]

Correct.  Proselytizing means trying to force someone to convert, not necessarily succeeding.  Just because a person follows you on the street telling you how you're going to hell if you don't accept Jesus into your life, doesn't mean they are right, or that you'll actually go to hell if you rebuff them.    Atheists don't believe in hell.  Or heaven.[/quote]

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