Jan 13 2009
Missionaries?
I’ve been watching videos about South Africa and other countries in Africa fairly often lately. More and more often, the videos I see are Christians doing so-called “missionary” work in these African countries. The same Christians that appeared about five hundred years ago and pillaged the land of its resources and people via blatant theft and the slave trade. So now when I see “missionaries” professing to be saving the souls of these “poor Africans” it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I am not anti-Christian. I’m not anti-any religion. But I do tire of seeing the haughty Christians from the U.S. and Europe saving everyone but themselves. These missionary trips strike me as pretentious and unnecessary. Now the help that some of these religious organizations provide is great and I admire anyone who seeks to GIVE anything. But does this assistance have to be paired with religious conversion? Its just strange to me. And remember, the knights in the crusades called themselves “missionaries” as well. They just convinced people to convert to Christianity not by giving them food and building infrastructure but by burning babies and impaling naysayers.
Until next time,
Sirius -C-
