Agree with analog -- it's the evangelical Christians that do this. The ones that believe that, as an integral part of their faith, it's their duty to bring people to God _their way._ They can't respect other people's beliefs, because by what they believe only _they_ have the truth, and therefore they're doing you a great favor by coming atcha at every opening.
In other words, their religion requires them to be rude and disrespectful of others' feelings, and to attempt to sell their own beliefs to others at times when others are at their most vulnerable. I've seen it once or twice in nondenominational "Christian" churches, but most of your "standard brands" (Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, some Baptist synods) would never be so crass.
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