What do you think?

So since I've been growing and learning more about my faith, and Christ, there's been a lot of discussion at my church around the idea of preaching to others.

This conflicts me greatly, as I've said in the past, I used to be Christian in name only and used to very much live by "to each their own" "live and let live" etc etc. of course now I've come to actually follow the beliefs I once claimed, I understand we as a people want to give as many people a chance as we can to come to know Christ.

My question is this, all those who don't believe, I'm really curious, if you believed there was a chance we were in fact correct, and we by all means could be,

What would you see as worse?
1. Christians pushing more and more to try and convince and convert more and more people?

2. Or, if Christians , with all our beliefs in that
You need to follow Christ to be saved, if we just excluded ourselves as a religion, and kept to ourselves?

I ask because I by all means want to give as many people a chance to know Christ as I do,
But I also remember those feelings of just wanting to keep my beliefs to myself and not really caring what others believed or wanting to bother others(I was not the nicest person lol 😅)

Edit: sorry I think I wrote this poorly, I'm not trying to claim or imply anything religious, I'm more asking a question around being made to make a choice you don't want to make, or being in a situation where your not even aware about a choice to Begin with (basically getting a bad end without being told a bad end exists)

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ThirstenHowl · M

One of the most obnoxious elements of religion is this selfish need of the followers (or managers) of a religion to go out and (AT BEST) evangelize others in hopes of converting them (or at WORST actively trying to FORCE people to convert or else just kill them ... evangelizing is on the same spectrum as sawing off people's heads because religion's proponents psychopathically want to believe those not following that religion are some sort of misguided "infidel" ... evangelizers aren't any better, either they just don't spill any blood, or the blood they spill is indirect and thousands of miles away on a different continent via the government policies they support ... and make no mistake, every religion seeks political power too).

The most insane part of all is that, unlike trying to sell Avon or Amway or used cars or other such nonsense, in the unique case of religion, you're attempting to sell a deity to people. Think about what that intrinsically implies — you're trying to sell something which you claim by its very nature is omniscient and omnipotent — which means your evangelizing isn't even needed to begin with!!!!!!!! This mofo you're trying to sell me on could easily speak to all eight billion people on this planet right now, ELIMINATING ANY AMBIGUITY. And yet for some ponderous reason it chooses NOT TO???? Or at least his is what I am told by a .... human???? And the deity prefers instead to just randomly send some of you the most ambiuguous "signs" that you, instead, are to be its MIDDLEMEN?!?!?!? How insane is it to hold that utterly preposterous belief, which is actually downright insulting to the supposed powerful deity you're trying to sell us all on? Any deity which needs human middlemen isn't any deity worth following!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Duh.

Look, we know you religion exists, ESPECIALLY if it's one of the most already well-known (e.g., the top 3 Abrahamic religions). Especially in this thoroughly connected modern world with resources like the Internet.

Evangelizers are not providing a service by inserting themselves into our lives to tell us about what we already know is around us. They're only trying to scratch their own itch to CONVERT people. But we've already CLEARLY DECIDED we don't want that crap, so evangelizers bugger TF off and mind their own lives. If evangelizers genuinely wanted to HELP people they could just go volunteer at soup kitchens or support politics that actually help people rather than the wealthy / corporations.

GeminiDuality · 31-35, M

@ThirstenHowl yeah I'm not touching that, dude I'm just trying to ask fair and open questions, I'm the wrong person to bring all that up to .

I feel your frustration, I don't know why he does what he does, but if I can help discuss the idea of God to someone and possibly save them? Great, if they don't want any of that, good to know.

Idk dude, look Christians in my town in my country are pretty damn quiet, I know on other places they can be pretty overbearing