[AaronInCarolina]

Why preach the gospel then? Why should missionaries die working to translate scriptures? Why not just make sure Muslims are very good Muslims, Buddhists are very good Buddhists, etc.

I guess the Great Commission should thus be amended:

“All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you (But if you don't, that's okay... they are covered as long as they have some vague sense of God and try to be good people): and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world”

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Exactly.