Posted on 01/20/2006 3:45:37 AM PST by ovrtaxt
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Of interest?
Heartbreaking; think of what it was like for God seeing the Hebrews wimp out so quickly after the Red Sea crossing.
Besides slaying outsiders, the Waodani killed each other at the highest rate of any known group, University of Connecticut anthropology professor James Boster said. Before the missionaries came, they had dwindled to 600 and "were at the brink of cultural extinction," because such a small group can't sustain itself as a social unit, he said.
Exactly, you're right,
This is how anthropologists see it :
Tribe killing each other,but preserving their culture = good
Tribe stops killing each other, embrace "white man's religion" which teaches forgiveness and love = bad
Kind of like the camera crew that films documantaries. They see an animal obviously in danger, which they could easily save with little effort, but noooooo, that would be interfering with nature.
As if humans aren't part of nature.
Ping
Saw the movie advertised on TV and really want to see it....opens in theaters Jan 20.
I'm so disapointed, doesn't seem to be playing around here.
Get your church, or a group of churches, to rent out a theater for a night.
did you check the theater listings here:
http://www.endofthespear.com
Sounds a lot more Globe worthy than Bareback Mountain.
"Sounds a lot more Globe worthy than Bareback Mountain" RIGHT ON!
How savage, how primitive, how just like the liberal world. Interesting, no?
Ummmm...I believe that should be "Brokeback" Mountain. However your name seems to fit better. ;O)
Tribe stops killing each other, embrace "white man's religion" which teaches forgiveness and love = bad
This is certainly the take on Hawaii. Before missionaries landed there, people were routinely sacrificed to please Pele.
Yes, it does! I cannot wait to see this movie. I read Elizabeth Elliott's Through Gates of Splendor in college and it made a huge impact on me and really helped me understand what Christianity was all about. This is a wonderful story. I've seen her on tape and she's one tough woman. She's also had a hard life. Her second husband died of cancer and she's now married a third time. She quotes from Jim Elliot's journals in her books TGOS and it's chilling when you know how his life was going to end. He would have done it again had he known. Her work dispels of the notion that Christianity is an easy way to eternal life--the sin-then-get-forgiven syndrome. She shows that it means giving your all.
Well, I see their point... religion has been the source of all deaths in war, other than the 20th century, during which time more people have been killed in war than in all other times combined. :') But seriously, all wars are political in nature and motivation.
I don't think I'll add it, but thanks for the ping.
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