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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For example, PP can watch this video and then perform some crazy mental gymnastics to claim there was no proselytizing.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xvyx139IXI[/youtube]
[i]"I was in the waiting room and my daughter was having surgery for four hours. SP's staff shared the Gospel with me. That's when I heard about Jesus Christ. I received Jesus Christ as my savior on the day my daughter had surgery in the Cayman Islands. ... I know that Jesus healed my daughter's heart." [/i]

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Prove to us that the Mongolian mom didn’t ask about the missionaries faith, and they were simply answering. You can’t.

What amazes me is that mom spent weeks with the missionaries, in Mongolia, on the plane, and then in the Cayman Islands, before they finally told her about Jesus. They must be piss-poor missionaries. [/quote]

They know they need to build trust first.

I'm sure they've thought through their technique. 
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So 3rd world citizens are ignorant as well as poor? They don’t have the mental capacity to make decisions based on their own feelings and thoughts? I am stunned people here are denigrating 3rd world people so. Just because they are in poverty doesn’t mean they are stupid.

Religious people are called mentally ill here as well. So according to dcum, mentally ill religious missionaries are preying upon ignorant 3rd world people.

What a narrative.

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I didn’t say anything about people from “3rd world” countries. And I included an example of proselytizing in the US. Should I repost that one?

I’m talking about the behavior of some missionaries.

It’s unethical.

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Do missionaries withdraw offers of help if the person they are offering help to refuses to become a Christian? Or do they help people and only offer testimony and allow the person/people to make a choice? [/quote]

Is that the only scenario where you think proselytizing is unethical?

What about proselytizing in high pressure situations? When a person is extremely vulnerable and feels deeply indebted to the missionary? When there is a large imbalance of power?

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[b]No, because: the people receiving help get help they probably wouldn’t get otherwise[/b]
and also it’s not like the missionaries are going to have any power to negatively impact the life of the person/people in the future. Missionaries don’t have legal or financial power over the people in the countries they work in. People can even say oh yes I accept the word of God in my heart and am Christian, and then as soon as they get help, say “whatever” and live as they choose.

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Doesn’t that make it worse though? They literally have no other option.

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