My hope is that this personal testimony will also light the spark of repentance in my fellow citizens. Search yourself and see if there isn't a little bit of the hypocrite in you. I'm convinced that intolerance is one of the deadly pitfalls of those who advocate freedom. In our zeal to strengthen freedom and inspire others to love liberty as we do, we of ten become downright belligerent. I've had to learn this the painful way, but I know that you can't forcefully proselytize or evangelize people to believe in freedom.
Men are free beings with the ability to think, reason, choose, and reject.
Such fervent evangelism often causes in others deaf ears and closed minds. Among my pen pals is a young man three or four years my junior, Quite frankly, his socio-political beliefs are antagonistic to mine. He believes that socialism is the last hope of the world. He curses the capitalistic system as being the root of all his woes. Now, this fellow leaves himself wide open for an avalanche of freedom literature and lengthy letters setting him straight.