Some believers are like the vegan who sits at your dinner table, uninvited, and weeps over the dead animal you are enjoying, ruining the meal for everyone. Then expects you to give up meat, eggs, cheese, and butter.
Stop doing this.
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No, but I’m attempting to annoy believers into at least examining what they say they believe! 
Apparently you can’t annoy people into doing that, either.
My golf buddy and his wife are fanatical vegans. It can be hysterical. After a round of golf, he’ll pay full price for a BLT and tell them to hold the bacon and mayonnaise, so it’s just a slice of bread with lettuce and tomato. A “pizza” is a slab of dough with tomato sauce.
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Almost as bad as the Christian who witnessed to other Christians because their salvation is in doubt over a difference of opinion, or the church they attend.
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I’m reading a new book by Paula Fredriksen, Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years. Amazon.com: Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years eBook : Fredriksen, Paula: Books
In her slightly cynical chapter on Christian martyrs, she gives the example of one Christian group that insisted they were the “real Christians” because they were being persecuted just like Jesus said real Christians would be. Then they became the dominant group in the area, whereupon the Christians they were persecuting decided they must be the “real Christians” because they were being persecuted just like Jesus said real Christians would be!
It’s not just Christianity. Muslims conversions to Christianity are up, and a primary reason given is that they are persecuted or even killed for not being fundie enough. So they have converted, or convert after moving to a safer area.
They were annoyed out of their religion, not deeper into it b
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