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We are the christian's. Lower your beliefs and surrender your minds. We will add your ideas and
beliefs to our own. Persistence is futile.
In 80 years this will probably be their motto. |
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You know I neutral but I would say his that they are kind of arrogant. |
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In a way, this proceeds naturally from the nature of their magical belief system. Some, or perhaps
all (I'm not familiar with the theological differences between all the different factions) of them
believe that getting into the magical after-life paradise, heaven, depends not on what you actually
do, not on how virtuously you live your life, but simply on whether or not you believe that there is
a magical being called God who sent his son Jesus to Earth to be executed. If you really believe
this, it obviously inspires in you a desire to convert others. Because, otherwise, all those people
who haven't adopted your belief system are going to suffer eternally. It clearly becomes your
christian duty to proselytise and attempt to assimilate the non-believers.
I suppose quite a few magical belief systems have this proselytising imperative, but it seems
strongest in christians. There are some magical belief systems in which it is completely absent,
however. In Zoroastrianism, for example, there is no proselytising. You are usually either born into
that faith or not. You can join it voluntarily but even that, I think, is not easy, and you would
have to have found out about it yourself beforehand. |
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No.
But Politically-Correct IS Borg-like = to Infinity AND Beyond. |
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I think they are more like whorf. Mean well, very strong, bright as they need to be, and caught up
in their own struggle. |
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WRONG! The blinking light is from our headsets, not our glasses and the light is blue! |
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Are you saying it is wrong for a Christian to behave as you describe? |
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You're talking about Hyperchristians, the ones who give the sane ones a bad name. Besides, it's not
like atheists don't proselytize. |
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I think you refer to fundamentalists, and i don't think that this is unique to Christians. Most
Christians do not behave in the manner that you describe. Fundamentalism in general is based on
indoctrination, and not terribly tolerant of divergent thought, and are reliant on proselytizing.
Except Jews, you never see even the most fundamentalist Jew going door to door. |
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