Click here to view. Religious conversion by missionary activity remains an act of violence. Conversion is violence. It generates violence. Aggressive religions and non-aggressive religions are not on the same plank.
Conversion is, therefore, a rank, one-sided aggression.
The genius of the non-aggressive traditions cannot change, and therefore, they cannot be asked to do the same thing as the aggressive religions do. It is amazing how easily cultures disappear by the program of conversion through various means, leaving only dead monuments to be preserved for posterity. The living religious traditions, intimately woven into the fabric of their respective cultures, have to be allowed to live and thrive. Religious conversion should stop. Aggressive religions should realize that they are perpetrating violence when they convert.