Generally I agree with JMS' post on personal attitude: annoying but somehow touching.
Beats the hell out of the kind of fundamentalists who just hate you.

On the other hand I think it's overall harmful. Evangelical religions place their belief in "saving souls" over real world concerns. With all their zeal, the opportunity cost is amazing.

Of course I come to this conclusion by the belief that the religious convictions are false.
So it's a mixed feeling. They get points for their conviction and their effort...
But I just think that they make the world a worse place.

Some religions do charity for the purpose of doing good and helping others. That is positive.
The most extremely evangelical religions seem to do it just to gain converts... and that really alters the way in which they do it.
They're like a pyramid scheme.

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside