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So if anything is Christian you just immediately label that as proselytizing? Proselytizing is an action so perhaps you could speak to what aspects of veggie tales were actively proselytizing? [/quote]

"Since 1993 Veggie Tales has been helping children discover that God Made Them Special - And He Loves Them Very Much!"

http://veggietales.com/vtmain/whoweare/[/quote]

Wow. Such villainy.[/quote]

The question was not about villainy. The question was about proselytizing.

Non-religious people, by and large, do not believe that there is a God, let alone that God made children special and loves them very much, let alone that children should "discover" something that they (the non-religious people) believe to be untrue. Given this, it should not be hard to understand why non-religious people might consider "helping children discover that God Made Them Special -And He Loves Them Very Much!" to be proselytizing.

And not just non-religious people, either. Believers in polytheistic religions, for example, might consider it proselytizing, since polytheism is believing in more than one god. And religious Jews might consider it proselytizing also, since "God loves you" is not (in my understanding) a major feature of Judaism. These are just examples -- there are a lot of religions I know next to nothing about, and if you wanted to know more, you'd have to ask believers in those religions how they would feel about it.

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