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To: Colofornian

Got it..I guess you can be the judge of what is good and bad evangelism. Be my guest.


1,156 posted on 05/05/2009 8:36:00 AM PDT by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: Goreknowshowtocheat
I guess you can be the judge of what is good and bad evangelism. Be my guest.

Well, if you'd rather have a frown-free approach be my guest. Of course, you'd have to be consistent. Anybody that joined Jim Jones' group as a result of proselytism & headed off to Guyana pre-koolaid would be in your eyes, "equal opportunity 'evangelism.'"

But what you've failed to consider is that the literal meaning of "evangelism" is "good news." Frankly, I don't consider Jonestown as being a "good news" event. Do you?

Don't you see how political correctness ("equal opportunity") has in your mind turned the very meaning of a great word like "evangelism" on its head?

Or what about people who were recruited into the alien-focused Heaven's Gate cult in San Diego -- the ones who were taught that the way to meet the aliens was to commit mass suicide? Was that a literal "evangelism?" (Good news?)

'Tis always amazes me how...
...political correctness...
...& subjectivism (feelings-based ethical approach)...
...& a twisting of words (evangelism = bad news vs. good news)
...can be so rampant in a supposedly "conservative" thread.

1,163 posted on 05/05/2009 8:55:21 AM PDT by Colofornian
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