Sometimes when a Christian missionary asks if I’m saved, I feel oddly protective of them and want to ask if they’re okay or need help. Is that inappropriate? Would it also be rude to offer them material on comparative religion, religious history or evolution so they can question their beliefs too?
Maybe it’s religious trauma, but as a gay person growing up in the south, I would have been very grateful if offered a lifeline at one point in my life. Religion can mask many different forms of abuse or oppression.