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There was once a group who staked out a particular section of city street and would just approach people and repeatedly shout “JESUS!” at them, as if to glitch them into converting. I did wonder what their success rate was.
Proselytizing has an abysmal success rate and it's almost by design. The purpose of the church pushing people to do so isn't to try and convert new members but to get the one doing so to feel isolated from their community so they endear themselves into the church community as a replacement.
The one proselytizing begins to become disheartened that their efforts—which, in their eyes, they believe to be "just trying to help people"—are being met with derision. They begin to see their community as nothing but vitriolic people who get angry at "being helped" and run back to the church to commiserate on how "godless" the outside world it. It creates an in-group/out-group dynamic.
It's incredibly nefarious when you view it from a systemic perspective.
pretty sure these types are just looking for some physical altercation, someone is filming em from nearby to either sue the shit out of you or otherwise have video for some ragebait narrative they're selling somewhere
Unfortunately, this is just projection that assumes the intent of the other because you can't conceptualize any other reason you would find "legitimate" why they would behave like that.
Really, they are brainwashed individuals who legitimately do not see an issue with their behavior. They have convinced themselves through faulty logic that somehow they are simply "just trying to help others see the light and denouncing 'evil' in the world". Sure, any logical person knows that this is bullshit but the religious are not people who understand logic.
Date and I drove past a spray painted sign in the country that merely said, "JESUS".
"What is that sign supposed to do? Jesus! My homeboy! Forgot all about him!"
She was cracking up and now I think that every time I pass that sign.