> >From: brandon stewart <rostewa2@vt.edu>
> >Perhaps this is why Christians insist on letting people "make their 
> >own" choice when choosing their faith.
> 
> You must be thinking of some other religion. It was the Christians 
> who first invented the high-pressure sales tactics in order to win 
> (read: force) converts. They called it evangelism and it was so 
> successful that it resulted in Christianity being called an official 
> religion of an empire in less than 300 years after it's inception.
?????
That describes when Christianity went defunct.
Some other source inflicted this exotoxic meme on the Christian meme-set, 
and effectively crippled it for over 12 centuries.  Some branches are 
still crippled today.
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