What I Hate About The Religious: Proselytizing. You?

Literally, from one who wrote the book on the defense of proselytizing, Elmer Thiessen. From http://ift.tt/2vTOQoX

CONS: Some critics argue that proselytizing leads to resentment, hatred, religious persecution, disunity in society, and even holy wars. Sadly, there is some truth to these empirically based objections..

PROS: John Stuart Mill, in his classic defense of liberty, specifically introduces the topic of religious proselytizing arguing that, without proselytizing, human beings may be deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth. Proselytizing is a healthy phenomenon because it encourages controversy and discussion on “subjects which are large and important enough to kindle enthusiasm,” and which therefore enable even ordinary persons to rise “to something of the dignity of thinking beings”

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What I Hate About The Religious: Proselytizing. You?