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Originally Posted by GGG
I would agree with that but I think there is a line between engagement and evangilizing in anything. I dont think it is defined but i think you can tell when someone is engaging you in a friendly discussion or trying to convert you.
Continuing the hockey example i will tell a canucks fan their team sucks for x reasons but i wont try to convince them to chear for the flames.
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True, though even given that, if I'm trying hard to convince someone of my position on a forum discussion, I still don't really count that as evangelizing, just advocating, because the discussion is still entered into voluntarily, evangelizing to me is trying to enter the discussion in a situation where the other party isn't entering voluntarily.. knocking on doors, standing on a street corner with a megaphone, mailing literature, etc.
And I don't think evangelizing is necessarily bad either, society is a marketplace of ideas and ideas have to be communicated to reach new people, the Canadian in me just has a pathological need to not be offensive.