Reply #47: reasons:

[meti57b]

Overall, for the reason I have already stated, that native cultures have been destroyed or weakened by aggressive proselytizing.

Just looking at the bush administration and recent polls, my opinion is that at least half the people are far more gullible than I had previously imagined.... even considering that in this country, we have public education and plenty of dissemination of news and information, more so than many other places, people remain gullible. As a result I do not believe that people who are subjected to aggressive proselytizing are making a free choice.

Most of what is promised by proselytizers is conjecture and wishful thinking. As such, there is nothing superior to the religion they are pushing, over any other native or cultural religion. (I say that not as an atheist, but maybe a wishful thinker.)

In past times and maybe even now, proselytizers have shown up with more advanced technology and there have been instances where that has persuaded proselytizees that some other religion is superior.