A shout out to Sam Shmikler, who sent along this little item labeled “Why I’m Glad Judaism Forbids Proselytism:” A Taiwanese man who was attacked after he jumped into the lion’s den at the Taipai zoo was reportedly trying to convert the lions to Christianity. He was clawed and bitten when his pleas of “Jesus will save you” and “Come bite me” drove a non-believing male lion into violence; we’ve had the same reaction when the Witnesses show up at our house during dinnertime. Zoo workers were able to drive off the lion with water hoses and tranquilizer guns, which doesn’t seem quite fair, does it?
Maybe the guy’s brain was scrambled from too much Bible banging: Christians were thrown to the lions as a punishment and to entertain the Romans, but it was Daniel, a nice Jewish boy, who received God’s grace to tame them in their den.