Shailah:
Some missionaries came to my door the other day and tried to get me to start attending church. I would like to make them happy, but I’m worried it might be a halachic issue. What should I do?
Teshuvah:
You have a rare opportunity to make a kiddish Hashem and prevent future violence against the Jewish people by attending the church. The inyan of looking good by the non-Jews is a matter of pikuach nefesh and therefore is matir all issurim. The more they like us, the less they kill us. Therefore, by attending the church service, you will merit to save lives, and one who saves a life is as though she saved the entire world. If you do not make it to the church, it is as if you have shed the blood of innocents and you are postponing the coming of the symbolic, non-literal moshiach that exists collectively within all of our hearts.