Posted on 05/23/2004 8:09:02 AM PDT by chance33_98
You were right....I was rude too! I just re-read my posts and I was just as rude as you were. I apologize.
And I hope I did not imply that you have to like people trying to convert you. You don't. I sometimes find it amusing but then I freely admit that my tastes in entertainment are a bit off the wall.
I bet your entertainment interests aren't as off the wall as mine....you go first though.
:Hangs head: You know I wouldn't have done it if they hadn't of kept on pestering me. 'Tain't nice to make people sick in bookstores. The books might get ruined.
LOL During a lunch break back when I was in the 7th grade, I made a good friend of mine spit chocolate milk out of her nose....then she ended up getting sick. I was telling these stupid jokes, and she kept telling me to stop....well, I didn't. She wasn't mad at me, but she always got up and left if I started telling jokes.
Hmmm.
Personally, I find the stealth and subterfuge used by the Campus Crusade in this instance, deplorable. But tolerating it is the price you pay for free speech.
Only know if you were intentionally trying to decieve the invited as to the nature of the bbq, so it's up to your individual conscience.
ps, I'll invite you to our next church barbecue if you'd like. If you want to come after the service, that's fine with me. If you want to go to the local mosque before coming and eating pork ribs, that's fine with me, too.
pps, I've been called worse by some of the finest people in Sonoma County. You think calling me a jerk bothers me?
Ah, unlike the other guy I'm talking to, you're telling people that the BBQ is at a church. Huge difference there. You're being honest, he's not. It's that cut and dried.
Personally, I feel there's no integrity if you don't tell people that up front. People end up feeling deceived.
I think it boils down to fear of rejection. Most people hate to have others tell them "No". I can almost guarantee that 90% of people, both Christians and non-Christians, are afraid that if they share something valuable and significant to them that it will be rejected. For most people, when you say "no" to their beliefs they see it as a personal rejection. It isn't true, but the belief is there.
I've been in sales for a long time. I make my living by going from "no" to "no" until I get a "yes". I'm amazed at how few people are willing to do what I do. I've trained people for sales positions who quit after a day or two because they couldn't stand the rejection....
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