Are they fearful that they are mistaken, so they must argue with everyone, and try to prove all otehr religions wrong, but their's right?
I'm not talking about the well-known JW persistence, in which we all once shared.
I'm talking about nearly all brands of Christianity, the witnesses and their other branded counterparts. Here are two incidents to demonstrate.
A week or so back, I read in a Chinese newspaper of a complaint by two Tibetan Buddhist women in the city of Xining, Qinghai Province, in western China. Qinghai has a large population of Tibetan Buddhists and Hui Muslims, and religious sensitivities are often an issue, and the government attempts to keep some balance and coolness in religious matters.
The two women complained that they wanted to learn English, and they answered an advertisement from someone offering free, 'individual lessons.' To their dismay the individual lessons turned out to be a deceptive front for a Christian group trying to win converts by offering English lessons based on biblical texts. They were asking the government to ban such deceptions.
Christians of all types, obsessively and deceptively use this method of trying to convert people all over China. There is even a Science University in North Korea, that by false deception, managed to get permission supposedly to teach science. They were recently exposed by a former teacher at the university.
The second experience is my own: Last week, I was given the wrong directions to a function, and was rather tired after a vain search. I was sitting on a rail station waiting for a train, when a woman sends a child of about six to give me a leaflet. Alarm bells rang when I'd noted the woman giving the child the leaflet and pointing to me. I thought they must be JWs, but the leaflet was some other church.
I politely declined the leaflet, which brought mummy over. Why wasn't I interested? I gave a brief explanation that I'd had enough of Jesus and I did not want to discuss it further.
Not good enough! Then came a rant about all of us having to stand in front of Jesus on his high horse (judgement seat). I declined the conversationagain. But the rant continued. It took five minutes for the ranting to stop.
The incident, so similar to things I'd done myself, gave me an opportunity to examine the nature of Christian obsessiveness. It is all based on 'being right.' That's something they have to keep proving to themselves .
Such an obsessiveness is a sign of mental illness.
