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  • Created by: thalassa
  • Published: 19 Feb 2015, 10:14
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  • Responding to Proselytizing

    this might be helpful too).

    Unfortunately, many proselytizers not someone wanting to learn and share their faith with you in an equal exchange of information and ideas, or even to have a constructively critical comparison of religious beliefs. These people want to bully you for your spirituality, either as a justification of their own faith, or to fill in the chinks of doubt in their fortress of dogma, or because it gets their spiritual rocks off. Either way, YOU DO NOT OWE SOMEONE LIKE THIS ANYTHING.

    Let me say that again so that it sinks in: These people are not someone wanting to learn and share their faith with you in an equal exchange of information and ideas, or even to have a constructively critical comparison of religious beliefs. These people want to bully you for your spirituality, either as a justification of their own faith, or to fill in the chinks of doubt in their fortress of dogma, or because it gets their spiritual rocks off. Either way, YOU DO NOT OWE SOMEONE LIKE THIS ANYTHING.
    And neither do you.you are the one that controls this conversation (and notfirst posted on my blog, Musings of a Kitchen Witch)
    Tags: religion, manners, religious etiquette, interfaith, proselytizing, introduction to paganism, Religion and Spirituality
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