"It seems to me that those who are aggressive in their proselytizing, can often be very altruististic in their motivation"

Indeed so! I never doubted that...I'm quite sure that many consider me a pretty nice guy who feeds the birds and deosn't beat his wife and really SHOULD be saved from the eternal fire...but they never seem to comprehend that I would have to be convinced that there IS an eternal fire first...or that there are SO many holes and circular reasonings in their attempts to show me a 'reason' to accept their premises....

It truly would not be a big deal if religion were kept a quiet, personal thing...I can even understand the urge to look to a higher power to sort out some of life's mysteries and complications, and I half-way envy those who can make Kierkegaard's "Leap of Faith" and just accept 'X' and deduce most additional answers FROM 'X'...I just can't do that...but I will VERY seldom go out of my way to start a discussion with MY opinion. Wish the local Mormon Church felt the same way.(and the kid I met on the bus who started preaching from the back row!)