Street Preachers

[Anatta]

I suggest posts in this topic stick to personal experiences of particular street preachers, and avoid any generalisations, otherwise things very easily descend into "brand wars".

In my experience, you can't really extrapolate from individual preachers and proselytisers, whatever their religion/non-religion (and as I said above, I've encountered people doing this from a number of different religions, including the ones I was supposed to be following - and including devout atheists ). I've met truly awful and really open ones - it's got so much to do with their individual personalities.

Kia Ora Padma,

Do you mean Buddhist street preachers ? or Jewish street preachers ?

Metta Zenda

[Cindy]

I am extremely annoyed that a thread that was meant to discuss democratic values has been subjected to bias and insult.

It is now locked.

Debating to me is important.

It is a way of having proper a civil discussion about opposing views. It never implies one view is correct and one is wrong. It is a discussion.

The point I was making was quite simple.

Shouting down a megaphone about your beliefs, is, in my mind, unacceptable behaviour.

That is what I posted about.

If people were shouting down a microphone and abusing me about the colour of my furniture I would take offence.

Cindy James