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This makes sense if you know what the word evangelize means
It means they fight with big robots, right?
Whoda thunk that evangelicals be the most evangelical? Wild.
It’s almost like words… mean… something?
It's what he wanted :p
Let me in so I can love you, or you'll be sorry of what I'll do to you if you don't let me in!
It’s literally in the name, to ~~harass~~ “evangelize.”
Catholics already did the institutional takeovers and the crusades.
Still violent, still oppressive but not in the same, individual, in-your-face way that American Evangelicals are. May be partly bias but the latter freak me out way more than the former, especially where they take over politics so aggressively.
I judt want everyone to shit up in every way about their fantasy story of choice the want to treat as if real.
To me people who talk about their religion as if it were a real thing are to me exactly the same as people with mental issues who have imaginary friends up until hogh age or who cannot tell reality from fantasy.
I don't bring this view up by myself buy absolutely drive it at max speed if some idiots on the road ask me "may I talk with you about how god can save you?"
"Tell me Father, should I convert?"
"Meh... I wouldn't."
They are kinda like that. If you aren’t born in the Catholic Church, it’s kind of a pain to get in. You have to do classes for at least a year and have someone sponsor you. It makes sense - they take their belief seriously and want to make sure that people joining know what they’re getting into
Sponsor? You just need a priest willing to give you sacraments, starting with baptism.
Yeah. If you go through the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA), you get baptized, given communion, and get confirmed all at the same time on Easter. Having a sponsor is part of the sacrament of confirmation.
At least that’s the way my church growing up did it. I’m sure there are exceptions for extenuating circumstances and differences across countries.
"don't be involved with any of these cults" is the resulting message.
most salesman want more customers
Honestly, a former evangelical, now a full on atheist, but I have to say, in a logical standpoint.. belief in hell, and belief that you should mind your own business, seem at odds in a general stance. If you literally believe your god, views non belief as such a crime, that anyone following it deserves to be tortured for all of eternity, it logically follows that you should do everything in your power to convince them otherwise.
The concept of a you do you and not my problem is on par with say... being a die hard trump supporter, going out every week with "mass deportations now" signs. Then going out and grabbing a beer with your undocumented immigrant friends and saying to them "You're a cool guy, lets hang out until ice finds you and gives you what you deserve".
There's a not uncommon belief that people that have not been exposed to Christianity are exempt from the whole hell thing.
The logical conclusion of that belief is, of course, that evangelising is just about the most evil thing you can do as you are condemning people by removing their exemption. Funnily enough, I never met someone who held that belief that reached that conclusion.
Exposed yes, but also noted almost all of them consider "exposed" as a fairly low bar as well. IE it's safe to say 99.999% of american's are exposed and chosing to reject.
But yeah the general idea of making sure small niche tribes in affrica never hear it, seems like a good way to protect them.
Same logic also could be applied to the idea that babies and kids under a certain age that die get a free trip to heaven. At which point the only logical conclusion is... a baby murderer is actually the most self sacrificing good human possible... such would be dooming himself to hell, while saving every baby he kills, self sacrifice is the greatest possible moral action. Why let babies grow up with the possibility they might reject god when they are old enough.
We just won ourselves the abortion debate, time to make tshirts
Evangelical totals to 99%??
This is from 2020; It seems like we might have more recent data and there's been some shifts?
This is the 2025 report from the same group: https://www.nationalsurveyreligiousleaders.org/s/NSRL-report-2025-clergy-in-america.pdf
They say (page 28):
Evangelical clergy, by contrast, stand out as especially conversionist, with 82% agreeing that it is important to try to persuade people to join them. Only 35% of mainline clergy agreed that such conversion attempts are important, compared to 41% of Black ministers and 52% of Catholic priests saying that. Consistent with their more ecumenical views, mainline clergy are less likely than clergy in any other group to agree that it is important for them to try to persuade people in other religions to accept their religion instead of the person’s current one, though the differences between the mainline percentage and the Catholic and Black Protestant percentages are not statistically significant at the conventional level.
Same question in the new report is here; seems like it's from the same data round though? So that's a bit confusing:
There is an additional question, on how this varies for 'primary' ministers vs others on page 77; feels like it should be broken down by religion first, but I haven't looked closely.
Consistent with their more ecumenical views
I.... Can't help myself....
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