>>OTOH, if they'd publicly express a promise to pray for my salvation or any other way of getting me into their web, I'd resent that, and in such a case I hope I'd find a polite way to express my resentment.
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>They don't mean any harm. I'm sure you don't either.

I also wouldn't harm them for that :). But it is somewhat insulting, you know, that they think less of you just because you don't belong to the same club (of their brand of religion or to the religious in general) and that they wish your problem was fixed by becoming one of them. That's just a very polite form of discrimination, IMO.