I think another issues is again, semantical. We say shove or push religion on others. Maybe to christians they think this means being aggressive, ridiculing you for not accepting, or being overly persistant. This rarely happens. what does happen is door to door stuff, pamphlet handing, pickiting and sign waving
Christians might say, "if I hand you a pamphlet or nock on your door im not SHOVEING christianity, im just advertising it!" I disagree. In my oppinion dont even approach me with it. Dont even try to talk to me about it uninvited.
Lets put it this way, if I came to a persons door with information on communism, something that I think is positive (a whole other discussion guys, please stay on task) almost anyone would say that I was being very rude, that its innapropriate. If I walked around the mall handing out pamphlets for communism, someone would beat my ass within an hour...for sure. People would say, "dont come preach it to me, keep it to yourself" or" communism is horrible and destroys cou.tries" I say the same about religion.
Now... If I managed to get communist type laws passed, had teachers promote its IDIOLOGY in school, got people to wave signs on the corner and had people picketing.....i dont know...churches, people would deffinately say I was pushing communism down their throat, or at least pushing it on them. How is this any different from the.religious?