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The Missionary Position
Apparently, it's awesome!
Check out this news from our Tsunami relief department:
From India surfaced a story about Samanthapettai, a fishing village in Tamil Nadu hit by the tsunami, where some Christian missionaries reportedly refused to distribute biscuits and water unless the Hindu recipients agreed to change their faith. When TV reporters approached the nuns, they refused to comment and left.
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My God, what is their motivation?
Local missionaries in India and other non-Christian countries are funded to a large extent by resource-rich American groups – powerful multi-million dollar corporations complete with TV channels and private planes. The websites, updated with fervent appeals for funds and tearful photos of tsunami survivors, are a window to their incredible organisation and explicit agendas for touching the "unreached people" or non-Christians with the hand of God. They look at India and Indonesia as "opportunities" for spreading the gospel. India is often described as a land of darkness, of idol worshippers and an area ripe for redemption.
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A few members of the littleboxes staff have done missionary work. A few of our members have even done missionary work on native american (Indian) reservations in the United States. It turns out that the most effective (in terms of conversions and not pissing people off, which are highly correlated) missionaries on reservations are young asian-americans. Our staff members comment that the people on the reservation don't trust white people so the churches (often chinese churches) send people (like them) instead.
A few other of our staff members hate missionary work (with a Passion...a Passion of the Christ...well, they are not sure).
Ah, this is leading to a rather heated discussion amongst our staff, the narrator is being called less than impartial. God damn it! We gotta sign off here...
(here's the link)
Check out this news from our Tsunami relief department:
From India surfaced a story about Samanthapettai, a fishing village in Tamil Nadu hit by the tsunami, where some Christian missionaries reportedly refused to distribute biscuits and water unless the Hindu recipients agreed to change their faith. When TV reporters approached the nuns, they refused to comment and left.
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My God, what is their motivation?
Local missionaries in India and other non-Christian countries are funded to a large extent by resource-rich American groups – powerful multi-million dollar corporations complete with TV channels and private planes. The websites, updated with fervent appeals for funds and tearful photos of tsunami survivors, are a window to their incredible organisation and explicit agendas for touching the "unreached people" or non-Christians with the hand of God. They look at India and Indonesia as "opportunities" for spreading the gospel. India is often described as a land of darkness, of idol worshippers and an area ripe for redemption.
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A few members of the littleboxes staff have done missionary work. A few of our members have even done missionary work on native american (Indian) reservations in the United States. It turns out that the most effective (in terms of conversions and not pissing people off, which are highly correlated) missionaries on reservations are young asian-americans. Our staff members comment that the people on the reservation don't trust white people so the churches (often chinese churches) send people (like them) instead.
A few other of our staff members hate missionary work (with a Passion...a Passion of the Christ...well, they are not sure).
Ah, this is leading to a rather heated discussion amongst our staff, the narrator is being called less than impartial. God damn it! We gotta sign off here...
(here's the link)
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