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Maybe, it depends. I would first have to know where you are coming from. If you are anti-Bible, some sort of neo-pagan belief (new age perhaps), then I won't be agreeing with you on much of anything.

I would imagine there perhaps was probably one-upmanship going on when the first Christian missionaries came to Hawaii to steer them away from their pagan fire goddess worship.

Nothing new here, re:the great commission and the book of Acts, Christians are commanded to do as you describe...what these Hawaiian missionaries were trying to do. Nothing new either with the difficulty they had trying to convince the pagans that their God was "one up" on theirs. And not just the Hawaiians, apparently you find it difficult to believe also.