missionaries
12/7/2018 8:30 PM
A martyr, or misguided? Death of missionary sparks debate over evangelical work
CBC Radio's The Current is doing a story about 26-year-old Christian missionary John Allen Chau, who was killed on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean. (The island's residents want no contact with the outside world, and they have made this clear by killing previous visitors.) I think what bothers me most is the unquestioned assumption that spreading one's religion is a good thing to do.
If there is some right/correct religion, then there's a lot of wrong religions. A lot of people are sure that all the other religions are wrong. And a lot of these people must be wrong, because since they don't all agree, they can't all be right.
Hmmm, it's like thinking we should spread democracy to every other nation on the planet.
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A martyr, or misguided? Death of missionary sparks debate over evangelical work
CBC Radio's The Current is doing a story about 26-year-old Christian missionary John Allen Chau, who was killed on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean. (The island's residents want no contact with the outside world, and they have made this clear by killing previous visitors.) I think what bothers me most is the unquestioned assumption that spreading one's religion is a good thing to do.
If there is some right/correct religion, then there's a lot of wrong religions. A lot of people are sure that all the other religions are wrong. And a lot of these people must be wrong, because since they don't all agree, they can't all be right.
Hmmm, it's like thinking we should spread democracy to every other nation on the planet.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/1034330.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]