Steve Parkes, I beg to differ. The way my experience has gone (I grew up in a predominantly Christian part of a predominantly Moslem area of a mostly amimistic country in West Africa; Dad was Quaker, Mom was Jewish, and we were pretty much atheists), I find that people with CERTAIN faiths have a duty to try and spread it. Those faiths tend to be mono(andro)theistic. It depends on what the faith is - and what the (HUMAN) prophets, writers of religious texts and so on, claimed to have faith IN. Moslems have a duty not to spread their faith by converting, which I agree Christians are duty-bound to do according to their teachings, but by killing those of other (infidel) or no faith, according to THEIR teachings. I don't think Judaism requires either preaching at or elimination of competing beliefs. Pagans have no duty whatsoever to try to spread their faith, nor do animists or anyone else who doesn't have a monotheistic, priest-promoting, hierarchy to protect.

Personally I think Praise is a pearl of great price; I don't know many, if any, other people for whom Christianity is such a large part of their lives but who manage NOT to preach at the likes of me!