Call the Witness

[kerravonsen]

synaesthete7 has a very good post Orange Juice and Living Water
or the LJ RSS feed putting her finger on
exactly the difference between "being a witness" and the (usually Evangelical Christian) practice of "witnessing" (which is a particular jargon word which is more secularly translated as "bible-bashing").

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[ladyslvr.livejournal.com]

In the US, at least, what's described in this essay would be Bible-thumping. By any name, it's ridiculous.

I got so sick and tired of the Campus Crusade for Christ trying to convert me that it made me want to seek out equally obnoxious alternatives just to have something smart to say to them. (Don't worry, I didn't.) Of course, their method of "conversion" was to approach me on the street and tell me that I was evil. Repeatedly. And since I was evil, I needed to be Saved.

They never even bothered to find out first if I might, in fact, already be Saved. They did, however, do a wonderful job of instilling in me my one true prejudice: a hatred of Bible-thumping Evangelical Christians.