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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Welcome to the oblivion of the majority to the minority. If you're the one being evangelized to (by the majority religion in the country particularly) you're the one who gets to decide when enough is enough. You missed the point that it wasn't about how awesome you were about evangelizing nicely, but that "your" opinion as the evangelizer doesn't matter
Being told you're going to hell if you don't accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Personal Savior (once happened to me at a New Year's Eve Concert. Yes it was at a church, but no it wasn't advertised as a religious event) is pressuring. But so is someone repeatedly trying to 'start a conversation about Christ' with you because they're genuinely worried about your soul. As sisters, you generally feel some sort of obligation to each other, and as housemates you might not have the ability to escape it. Consider particularly if there are only a few non-Christians in the chapter, how quickly a bible study goes from 'optional side event' to 'essentially mandatory.'
You might not have been 'that person', but your assumption that none of these people are 'that person' is probably wrong. Just as 'those people' exist among the general population, so 'those people' probably exist within the smaller selected population. .
And frankly, the more I read, on their own site, of the organization the less I can support any of them. I'm sure some of them are nice people, but I'll be judging the hell out of them. You know, loving the sinner and hating the sin. I'm sure they understand that.
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I don't think I missed the point, I just don't agree with your definition of pressuring. However, even if I did agree, we aren't talking about a situation in which people have expressed that they feel pressured- you're assuming that if students are evangelizing, others must feel pressured, and I don't think that assumption is correct. The students who wanted to propose bible studies said that they feared ridicule and rejection, which doesn't sound like the majorities of their chapters studied the bible whether they considered themselves Christian or not.
Telling people they're going to hell is pressure, as would be making a bible study mandatory or repeatedly trying to start a conversation with the same person, but none of these things are in the article. The student who said he was hoping to start a conversation went on to discuss how the conversations began with others asking him about his temperament. I'm not assuming those things don't happen and haven't once stated that they don't. I'm saying there is no evidence from the article that it does, so to say that it does is an assumption.