Take a step back and think, please. Did I tell you, "Abandon your beliefs, become a Christian"? I did not. I did not say anything of the sort.
How did I deny that you may "be as you are"? I do not deny you every right to choose your religion, and I hope we can be friends even as you remain Hindu.
Also, again, and this is important: You DO assert that Hinduism is true, and that Christianity is wrong. And you have implied as much in this conversation. So—am I allowed to say that Christ is the one true God? That is my view and that is entailed by the idea that Christianity is true. Am I allowed to say that?
I (like most modern Christians) have absolutely no desire whatsoever to *force* you or to say anything at all to you if you have no desire to listen. And I didn't start this conversation, by the way. You did, by replying to me.
All that said, I have a right, just as you do, to articulate what I believe. And I will do this in threads you are in, if you respond to me.
The *only* thing I have done that you seem to regard as improper is giving public utterance to a hope and prayer that you become Christian. Now, I can understand why this *might* be offensive to you, but I maintain that it obviously shouldn't be. It wouldn't offend me if you said, "Dear Shiva, please make Larry a Hindu." I would simply laugh. So why don't you laugh? I am allowed two things: (a) to wish and pray that you become Christian and (b) to express my wishes and prayers publicly. Which of these two things should I be disallowed?
If the answer is that you are fearful that some future Christians will attempt to impose Christianity by force, as has happened in the past, then it might help for me to say that I would share your horror of this, and I might argue even more strenuously than you do that we should not do that.
By the way, if you argue that *simply* expressing a wish and prayer that you be converted *is* an attempt at conversion, I would say that is obviously incorrect; moreover, it would be obviously a very poor attempt if that were correct. Why should it help at all to *convert* you for me to say, "I hope you become a Christian"? To convert you, I would have to make arguments and such. I will not address you with any such if you have no desire to hear them.
Maybe you're saying that you fear that the Lord God (that of the Bible) *will* hear my prayer and will convert you, and that will be against your will. So then my offense would be spiritual: I am invoking a spiritual power that it is wrong for me to use. Is that the problem? But I don't think you need to worry about that. If God *does* convert you, I assure you that it will not be against your will. While there is such a thing as a reluctant convert (and, in my opinion, spiritual power), that is different from a *completely unwilling* convert. If you want to stick to Shiva, or whatever your preferred god is, you will.
After all this, maybe you are simply playing a power game: Maybe, you are attempting to shame me publicly into *not* expressing my Christian belief in a full-throated way publicly. That is, maybe your reaction, when properly understood, has nothing at all to do with your rights or mine. Maybe it is simply that you really hate Christianity and you don't want anybody to express it with rhetorical force in your presence. If that's it, well—too bad. Good thing you don't make the rules here.
Replying to @lsanger and @carlwheless
You are not in the same boat as Hindus because Hindus don't wish or pray that you find their Hindu gods. They let you be as you are. Unlike you, they don't engage in unsolicited proselytization.