Re: RSS on their Conversion Assignment!
There is scope to take your question up a notch, hope you don’t mind if I do.
I think ALL religions conversions happen, even historically, with motives and with tactics. Some cases we know of for example are:
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bunch of priests get together with the warrior ruler (or gain control over the ruler) and this combine unleash cruelty (could be subjugation, 2nd class treatment etc) on a subsection of the population (usually different in some respect such as ethnicity, origin, language etc). At some point this differentiation gains the sanction of the priests’ religion. The subjugated people when they gain a voice (a charismatic leader, an external ally, an internal conscientious objector etc) then convert to a religion where they believe they won’t be 2nd class
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a people are invaded by external force and conquered; the external force unleashes tyranny and treat those that don’t convert to torture (force) or 2nd class citizenry (pressure) or long term modification (preferential inheritance …) etc
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priests develop difference of opinions (or theological difference of opinion) and branch away, taking followers; over time the philosophical differentiation morphs into different Gods and religions (probably to simplify for the sake of the masses who cannot otherwise appreciate philosophic reasoning)
Bottom line, there is always motive and there are always tactics.