Shalom AS,

I wish I could have seen that one. A few years ago, a Baptist got out of his van while I was working in my yard...that should been enough clue I didn't want to be proselytized to, but he didn't get the hint very well. Anyway, I told him I wasn't interested in his Jesus/god of the Roman church. He went on about how he was Baptist. I said Baptist today, Catholic yesterday, and lost both times. He began to move away from me. I told there is only one G-d and that Jesus wasn't it. He was running back to his van while shouting that you can only get to heaven through Jesus. I said there is not heaven or hell and that that is all made up to keep you in a church throwing your money away. He sped off and never returned. Hmmm...maybe I should have turned up on Sunday morning to finish?

Peter M.

Yeah me too Kitty..........like an hour later. 

Dec 14, 2009 -- 8:17AM, faith713 wrote:

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. 
Mohandas Gandhi 

We know Gandhi was not perfect, so what's your point, if you have one?

I hope you're not claiming that Gandhi was a Christian. The evidence in his own quotes proves conclusively that he was not:

"Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarrelling?" -- Mahatma Gandhi: Hind Swaraj, Or Indian Home Rule (1946)

"I wanted to know the best of the life of one (Muhammad) who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind. I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle." -- Mahatma Gandhi: Young India (1924)

"I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well." -- Mahatma Gandhi: Autobiography (1927)

"In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals." -- Mahatma Gandhi: Hind Swaraj (1908)

"It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world’s progress toward peace … Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?" -- Mahatma Gandhi: Harijan (1937)

"I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian." --  Mahatma Gandhi: Young India (1928)

Nov 12, 2009 -- 11:43AM, Agnosticspirit wrote:

The pros and cons of proselytizing.... I don't see any pros, other than self-serving ones on the part of the proselytizer and too many cons on behalf of the victims... er, proselytizee.

The pros far outweigh the cons. People's lives and hearts changed when they receive the Holy Spirit.