A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit

Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit by Beldin on Thursday June 16, 2022 @05:05PM (#31770969)

> aside from Jehovah's Witnesses, they tend to not be active in proselytizing

From [1]:

Members are expected to participate regularly in evangelizing work ...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_practi...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit by bseidensticker on Thursday June 16, 2022 @05:10PM (#31771003)

Yeah, that's literally what they said.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit by Beldin on Friday June 17, 2022 @03:26AM (#31775131)

I'm not a native speaker; I thought proselytising = evangelising work.

Did I get that exactly the wrong way around?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit by irtigor on Friday June 17, 2022 @06:18AM (#31776185)

"Aside from" means "except for"... He said that most of them don't attempt to convert people's religion (proselytism) with Jehovah's witnesses being the exception.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit by Beldin on Friday June 17, 2022 @07:27AM (#31776632)

Parse error on my side apparently: I read the "- aside from X, they do Y,... -" that "they" referred to X.

[ Parent | on HN ]