daphne's and drumming's vegan thread

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Originally Posted by ziggytrix

People don't like being proselytized. I don't get hostile around Christians unless they come up to me with loaded questions like "so what Church do YOU go to" - and it's something every non or formerly religious person in the American South has to deal with and actually I don't usually get hostile, I ususally just leave. And honestly, it's such a rare occurrence that someone gets really bad about it, but when they do, it prejudices you against the next dozen religious folk you meet. :/

In everyday life I don't see it that much, because people of course tend to stick with people who hold roughly the same values - mostly it's attempts at getting me spontaneously converted by characters at the mall or trainway station.

On the internet it's a whole different story though. Someone only has to say "I'm a Christian" or in this case "I'm a vegan", and it might even be entirely on topic, but there's always a few ready to leap forward and treat the person like they need to apologize for the bad apples of their faith. They prod them into a corner with questions to, dependant on the situation, either prove that the Christian can't be a perfect Christian, or the vegan can't be a perfect vegan.

I'm not saying that that's what everyone does, because there's been plenty of civilized exchange of information in this thread, and it's shown that people can ask normal questions to vegans. But some just have a knee-jerk reaction that makes them think "Oh. Vegan/Christian. (S)He's going to try to convert me. Better put my defenses up."