So far, nothing new. According to Hinson, so far SAF 's roughly 90 members across the country have distributed between 10,000 and 15,000 leaflets. One highlight was leafleting portions of the Pontiac Silverdome parking lot during a Promise Keepers rally. We believe that being examples of good citizens, not mouthy fanatics, is more likely to change someone's mind. They also realize that they are sowing seeds of doubt that may take years to blossom - and will do so only among a tiny fraction of their targets.
Some critics find church leafleting too aggressive.
Others say the humanist movement can't spare the resources to beard the most committed religious lions in their dens. Speaking from personal experience, I can tell you that on Sunday churches contain at least two kinds of people - the contented believers whom nothing is likely to change, and a questioning minority who attend services more frequently precisely because they are searching for answers. I spent years going to church while questioning my deepest convictions. According to recent research, persons who grow up strongly religious, then become nonbelievers, make up as little as one percent of the general population. But people with this rare background make up more than half the active membership of most humanist groups.