Proselytizing has an abysmal success rate and it’s almost by design. The purpose of the church pushing people to do so isn’t to try and convert new members but to get the one doing so to feel isolated from their community so they endear themselves into the church community as a replacement.

The one proselytizing begins to become disheartened that their efforts—which, in their eyes, they believe to be “just trying to help people”—are being met with derision. They begin to see their community as nothing but vitriolic people who get angry at “being helped” and run back to the church to commiserate on how “godless” the outside world it. It creates an in-group/out-group dynamic.

It’s incredibly nefarious when you view it from a systemic perspective.