Since there seem to be some reasonable discussants here, I suppose it is worth putting the other side of the story -- though my religion is suffering from it. If your religion believes that everyone who does not believe in your religion is denied by God or is doomed to Hell, it seems to me that you would be duty bound by love and compassion to convert as many people as you could, like saving people from drowning -- even if, or especially if, they did not realise they were drowning. Also, if you had been irradiated by the love of Jesus or Allah or whomever, wouldn't you want to share it, knock on people's doors, etc.? Buddhist don't do any of this partly because there is a deep scepticism in the faith about anyone's ability to know anything much, and being easily deluded: but I can see why people would do it. I will fight it, but I can see why people would do it. One of the problems Buddhists have is that we tend to treat deluded people with great care and good manners, sort of like a maddened horse you are trying to calm down. This may not be a good shortterm strategy for dealing with evangelical anyone.

yours, Peter T.