Evangelism is the belief that "believers" have an obligation to tell you about their religious brand - and more to save themselves from hellfire for failing to do so as they've been "commanded" to do (so much for "free will") than for whether you accept their "beliefs" to save yourself from hellfire ( because if you roast for all eternity for failing to "believe' what their selling, that's your problem, not theirs) - but the onus to convince you of the necessity and validity of those "beliefs" is up to you.
I grew up in a family that is about as homophobic as Phil Robertson and the Westboro Baptists, only they're not quite as boisterous about it; at least not in public anyway. They have also conveniently convinced themselves that their homophobia is really just their unique Christian ability to "hate the sin, but love the sinner" (even though these very same Christians adamantly refuse to accept that people can "hate Christianity, but love the Christian"). The sexual superiority complex necessarily relied on by such Christians is, of course, blanketed beneath the lambs wool of the Christian humility of serving "God." They interpret their fear of those who are different, in other words, as simply proof of their intimate knowledge and love of God. And the only thing such Christians are more sure about than that their own personal version of "God" exists, is that such a "God" would never want people to be homosexual - no matter how ma...
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