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>>Using the word "Force" is not warranted by the facts. Most missionaries I am familar with do not take guns or bombs with them, nor do they take hostages to force non-Christians to 'convert'. You're probably refering to the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages, the Inquisition, and the abuses of that period. In your or my lifetime, however, you can't name a single example where a group of people were 'Forced' to convert to Christianity.
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>I think there is a very strong likelihood that, as recently as today, there have been instances that might well be defined suchly. Coersion at the very least.
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>Like having food or medical supplies or other things of interest to native populations available and supplying them with pressure to convert. Possibly also relieving natives of their own 'gods' to help them in this regard. At the very least, to ridicule their 'gods'.
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>I noticed too, that Billy Graham in his sermon at the National Cathedral on Friday last, and even more so Franklin Graham as he commented before and after the service on CNN, both still used the opportunity to get "those who haven't yet accepted our Lord..." to do so now. Personally I thought it was a most inappropriate occasion to peddle to 'non-believers'.
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Jim;

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Tom