Missionary Threat (Rick Ross): David Clark Responds To Rick Ross and "The Missionary Threat" Booklet

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Missionary Threat (Rick Ross): Evaluating The Missionary Threat - Introduction
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Legitimate Christian missionary activity has been widely respected and has improved the overall condition of mankind through the centuries. The Judeo-Christian contributions to human history have made this a culturally improved planet to live on when one considers the condition of the world without its contributions. Rick refers to "Christian missionaries" as "...casting drift nets across the world like today's tuna fishermen, trying to catch everything in the waters that they work." Reducing genuine caring missionary activity to crass commercial business tactics is demeaning and degrading to say the least. Taking one's eternal relationship with the living God and subjecting it to an opportunistic analogy is offensive to say the least.
Under the category of Campus Assault, Mr. Ross referring to "larger missionary groups" says "The volunteers march out each day to assault campuses across the country,..". This kind of adversarial and alienating language does not promote meaningful dialogue or productive communication between those of different religious orientation, since definitive distinctions between destructive unethical groups that use Christian names and legitimate Christian missionary groups are not extensively specified by name by Rick Ross. The legitimate Christian missionary organizations are vulnerable to the broad brush approach painted by this kind of language. The Missionary Threat booklet also states "that more than 450 missionary organizations specifically target Jews in the United States, Canada, and Israel, according to Mark Powers, national director for Jews for Judaism. These groups are like packs of wolves, predators stalking only one prey - - the Jewish community." It is one thing to say 450 missionary organizations specifically target Jews, it is quite another to claim these alleged predators are stalking only one prey - - the Jewish Community. This appears to be a blatantly gross exaggeration and I wonder what documented support that there could be for such a claim. Then we are provided under the heading "Baptist for Buddha", the astounding claim "These activities only encourage religious intolerance and confrontation, and destroy any potential for meaningful interreligious dialogue with "born-again" Christians." Wow! What an Orwellian double-think and double speak! Aren't we being whacked in the head with a rhetorical boomerang?

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