{"items": [{"author": "Victor", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/perhaps-we-need-a-day-of-proselytizing/468596281212/?comment_id=468628611212", "anchor": "fb-468628611212", "service": "fb", "text": "I've had similar feelings for years, mainly about certain political views and have basically given up.  I find nothing changes another person's mind, especially facts which contradict their view.  Facts make them defensive, not receptive.", "timestamp": "1292514919"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/perhaps-we-need-a-day-of-proselytizing/468596281212/?comment_id=468637356212", "anchor": "fb-468637356212", "service": "fb", "text": "@Michael: sorry for being unclear; I'm an atheist and don't believe in hell.  The first paragraph is describing a variant of this situation that doesn't apply to me.", "timestamp": "1292516398"}, {"author": "Julia", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/perhaps-we-need-a-day-of-proselytizing/468596281212/?comment_id=468824431212", "anchor": "fb-468824431212", "service": "fb", "text": "I don't think atheists are in the same category as the others.  The religious people around me derive comfort from that and aren't really bothering anybody else, so I don't need to convince them otherwise.  (Except that part of me that wants them to admit I'm right.)", "timestamp": "1292550736"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/perhaps-we-need-a-day-of-proselytizing/468596281212/?comment_id=468848701212", "anchor": "fb-468848701212", "service": "fb", "text": "@Julia: if I understand your distinction, I'd put alien believers and utilitarians in the same category.  People who think that there is an afterlife, that cryonics has a plausible chance of working, or that the singularity is near all believe that it is in the best interest of people they might convince to be convinced.  While atheists, utilitarians, and alien enthusiasts believe that while others should agree with them it won't particularly make others happier to do so.", "timestamp": "1292555854"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/perhaps-we-need-a-day-of-proselytizing/468596281212/?comment_id=468849096212", "anchor": "fb-468849096212", "service": "fb", "text": "@Kit: would you find proselytizing less annoying and offensive if there were a day set aside for it?  If people wouldn't, there's not much point in making such a day.", "timestamp": "1292555941"}]}