Religious Pamphlets And Leaflets

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Often when I am out shopping, street evangelists hand me leaflets, flyers and pamphlets promoting their ministry and trying to convince me that I should convert to their faith. Many simply put such flyers in the bin or even litter the streets with them. I usually take them to be polite and as it is one less that might actually have an impact on a more sensitive, vulnerable mind. I generally read the flyers before consigning them to the recycler too. Most are incredibly bland and formulaic. They offer little more than random Biblical quotations (sometimes just with the chapter and verse number), tell me the end of the World and death are inevitable and imminent and tell me i'm a sinner. Some don't actually recommend any particular church for me, but just indicate that finding God will do. The last Christian leaflet I was handed in Preston in the UK was produced in Canada. The people handing these out don't care which church IU go to as long as I find one. They will be disappointed. Another leaflet I was given this weekend was given to me by a Muslim group, but as I read it I realized it served a different purpose than trying to convert anyone and everyone. It uses various quotations by and about Muhammad to try to educate the reader on some aspects of Islam that can seem controversial. It talks of the religion as one of peace rather than aggression, asserts that Muslim women are treated more fairly than many critics suppose and quotes various Westerners including George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Carlyle showing respect for the faith. This leaflet is not geared up to conversion, but to heading off Islamophobia and while the treatment of many Islamic women is deplorable, it is by mo means universal, and it is good that the faith of Islam is showing the World a better side of itself in this way. Youtube - A song that is actually quite critical of Jesus - the title song from Jesus Christ Superstar Arthur Chappell