04-20-2007, 09:48 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-SwamyG+Apr 20 2007, 09:24 AM-->QUOTE(SwamyG @ Apr 20 2007, 09:24 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But the real threat is in the forcible closing of minds that is required by the active spread of Islamism and Christianity by conversion. Those who seek to close minds by forcing belief in a particular direction are a threat to freedom.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If one were to consider the conversion specialists as sales people selling soaps, aren't they parading their soaps by extolling their products' virtues? It is up to the buyers who need to be careful if they are getting duped, right? Just playing hard ball <!--emo&
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Two points;
1) An advertising ombudsmen exists even in advertising to make sure lies are not told.
2) Dismissing Proselytization as mere advertising of wares is possible, but the only people who stand to lose are Hindus. So the matter is of some import and IMO it is worth having a clear idea of what it is about proselytization that is wrong. What would hold up in a court of law?
I am not asking for emotions and gut feeling.
Maybe we could take this up in the conversion=sedition thread?
If one were to consider the conversion specialists as sales people selling soaps, aren't they parading their soaps by extolling their products' virtues? It is up to the buyers who need to be careful if they are getting duped, right? Just playing hard ball <!--emo&
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Two points;
1) An advertising ombudsmen exists even in advertising to make sure lies are not told.
2) Dismissing Proselytization as mere advertising of wares is possible, but the only people who stand to lose are Hindus. So the matter is of some import and IMO it is worth having a clear idea of what it is about proselytization that is wrong. What would hold up in a court of law?
I am not asking for emotions and gut feeling.
Maybe we could take this up in the conversion=sedition thread?