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I recently had a descussion with one of my christen friends that started off as how often should you preach to your friends that progressed to the morallity of certain preaching methods.

everyone said that I should keep bringing up the subject of religion to my friends even if I know it offset's them and have been asked by them not to discuss it, my opinion is you shouldn't intentionally offset your friends and doing so is immoral.

later we discussed the morallity of preaching methods and he mentioned something were they spend time reserching the mind set of a particular type of person in order to preach to them in a way were they would understand better, I personaly think this is a bit manipulative, as you should preach the same way to everyone and if they don't understand rephrase, but don't spend weeks or months or even years reserching the psychology of a type of person in order to preach to them better.

another thing that I brought up was reserching one particular religion, in order to convert people by destroying thier faith and using your faith to fill the void that was created, which I'm pretty sure that happened to me when mum converted me from LDS to christen, thier are even books written instructing people how to shake the morman religion, and even if the religion is wrong, it is still wrong to convert someone by destroying what they know and offering your belief system as a replacement.

this next thing wasn't mentioned in the discussion but in the services they often get the everyone to stand and read out what they call the lords confession, and I have to say I've always been a bit disturbed by that, I don't read it out myself because of it.

so this thread is intended to be discussing an assortment of preaching methods and ho moral or imoral they may be.