To be fair, a lot of Americans have gone over there and preached Christianity. That part may be true. Same as Americans go to China and get caught trying to convert people.
It’s quite naive to say that missionaries are just “expressing” themselves. It has been well documented that they use predatory and coercive tactics to take advantage of the poor and uneducated. Missionaries are colonialist, which is undefensible.
There’s freedom of expression, and there’s actually recruiting. No one in a half-reasonable part of the world will care if you wear a cross necklace - express away!
But trying to bring someone into a cult or trick them into commiting atrocities, major lifestyle changes, voting habits, etc all on the basis of your imaginary friend telling you to? Naw fuck that.
Freedom from religion should be weighed here too. If you want to preach, do it in a church where there’s a reasonable expectation for it.
To be fair, a lot of Americans have gone over there and preached Christianity. That part may be true. Same as Americans go to China and get caught trying to convert people.
And every single one of them deserve the consequences.
I think they’re foolish but I don’t necessarily agree with that. Freedom of expression should be universal imo
It’s quite naive to say that missionaries are just “expressing” themselves. It has been well documented that they use predatory and coercive tactics to take advantage of the poor and uneducated. Missionaries are colonialist, which is undefensible.
There’s freedom of expression, and there’s actually recruiting. No one in a half-reasonable part of the world will care if you wear a cross necklace - express away!
But trying to bring someone into a cult or trick them into commiting atrocities, major lifestyle changes, voting habits, etc all on the basis of your imaginary friend telling you to? Naw fuck that.
Freedom from religion should be weighed here too. If you want to preach, do it in a church where there’s a reasonable expectation for it.
Sure! But it’s not. So they’ll get the consequences for acting like the rules don’t apply to them.
“Should” is pulling a lot of weight in this sentence.
What’s with people recently and their inability to accept that reality isn’t what they want??
Where did I deny reality? I stated they are foolish