(February 21, 2012 at 9:37 pm)padraic Wrote: It's most definitely not my point. I really,truly do not care about the personal superstitions of others. I also consider actively trying to change the world view of another person(proselytisng) the height of arrogance.
Who said I was talking about you?
Simply trying to convince people of something is not always proselytizing. We (meaning myself and those who live around me) live in a democracy, and must live our lives following laws which are made based on the opinions of others, so it is our civic duty to convince others of our ideas.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
