Religious Missionaries

[Aupmanyav]

So you are calling for cavalry? Do you need your "we" group behind you? It's pathetic Aup.
I said the same thing. So you see mate, you agree with me. Try not to pin things on people.
That's you evangelising. Heavily.

I did not call the cavalry. Cavalries are history. I only expressed my views.

What you said in your grand statement in an earlier post is in direct contradiction to this. (You proselytize more than any other group in the entire history of mankind.)

Where is proselytizing in what I said? That is absolute 'don't care' attitude. We do not offer '1. escape from hell' or '2. resurrection after death'. (Welcome to those who come, fare well to those who leave.)

1. Even after becoming a Hindu, you will have to spend time in hell for your evil deeds. Evil deeds are not forgiven by becoming a Hindu like in some other religions.
2. Reincarnation/rebirth is not the same as resurrection (not that I believe in it). The old identity is does not return. Only the burden of past 'karmas' remains.

 

[firedragon]

I did not call the cavalry. Cavalries are history. I only expressed my views.

Naah. Maybe you did a quick googling for the word and got some historical dictionary understanding shallowly as usual.

Kind of schoolchild mentality.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Naah. Maybe you did a quick googling for the word and got some historical dictionary understanding shallowly as usual.

Hinduism has lone rangers rather than cavalries.

 

[firedragon]

Hinduism has lone rangers rather than cavalries.

I didnt speak of Hinduism so you see, you are calling for cavalry by misquoting people and drawing supporters. I know that works in politics.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I don't think the terms are mutually exclusive. Are there people who make their charity contingent on having to hear a sales pitch not unlike a desperate, dire version of a rental retreat? Sure. But I've done volunteer work alongside volunteer missionaries and not all or even most of them breathe a word of their religion, or require anything of those recieving aid to receive aid.

There are good ones out there. The bad ones give them a bad reputation, including a long history of rotten Christian colonialism, but that's no excuse to write them off wholesale.

I think there might be an issue of terminology here. I've seen some churches slap religious jargon on absolutely everything they do: donations to decorate the church with flowers at Easter are the "flower offering"; the volunteers who mow the church's lawn are the "groundskeeping ministry"; etc., etc.

... so there may be some churches or individuals who call themselves "missionaries" when they're doing volunteer work that doesn't involve proselytizing. I'm sure there are also plenty of kids and young adults who go on their church's "mission trip" as a fun adventure and skip out on the proselytizing they're supposed to be doing.

So when I criticize all missionaries, I'm criticizing everyone who I consider a missionary, and I see missionary "work" as having a proselytizing aspect. There may be people who call themselves missionaries who I don't consider to be actual missionaries.