On 1/12/2013 7:47 PM, ESAD wrote:
On 1/12/13 7:36 PM, Tim wrote:
On Jan 12, 6:33 pm, ESAD wrote:
On 1/12/13 7:05 PM, Tim wrote:







On Jan 12, 2:54 pm, ESAD wrote:

No, I didn't imply all. I have read of missionaries in places like
India
withholding services/goods for those who would not convert, and I have
read of other such cases.

"As you may suspect, I am not in favor of proselytizing of any kind. I
think the practice is disgusting. If it were up to me, I would
expel any
missionaries in foreign countries who engage in proselytizing...."

And by doing so, you would also be expelling hundreds if not thousands
of health care workers, teachers,dentists, hygienists, dieticians,
carpenters, metallurgists and other craftsmen, farmers, scientists,
engineers, People who can show others how to live healthier...

You'd also be taking a lot of monies out of the local economy that was
provided by those you kicked out of the country.

Yes, Harry, By expelling those pesky foreign bible thumpers, you'd
help keep your third world country "third"

No need to expel them; all they need to do is get out of the religious
conversion business, eh?

I have a long-time client, an NGO, that helps villages all over the
world, in places like Guatemala, Egypt, Salvador, Bosnia, and India,
train indigenous peoples how to build housing, low rise commercial
buildings, how to build and maintain potable water supplies and
delivery, et cetera, and they manage to do it without peddling religion
or anything else.

If the hundreds or thousands of people you mentioned by occupation are
religious workers, they can do what they do without proselytizing, and
do it for the sake of their saviour.

If that be the case then why not turn the work over to the inefficient
Peace Corps?


Inefficient? It's a small force, under 10,000, and most volunteers work
as school teachers or in medical fields to help people not get HIV/AIDs.
Like any group, it has its problems, but it does a lot of good work
around the world without pushing religious superstition.



I don't think promoting religion is as terrible as lying and refusing to
pay taxes.