Posted on 05/24/2024 10:13:08 AM PDT by Drew68
Natural Selection cares nothing of good intentions.
[buy a sword - wise as serpents]
To above - which is why I always carry at least 9mm - with extra magazines
I pray I never need it for any reason
All these missionaries need to watch that movie MACHINE GUN PREACHER.
[Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His Saints.]
They are definitely forever safe in His arms right now.
Never to be harmed again.
And with Eternal Life that no man, no demon, no fallen angel can take from them, for all of Eternity.
““For God’s Sake, Please Stop The Aid!”
I wonder how much taxpayer dollars have been poured into Haiti the past ten years? last 20 years, the last 30 years? And other resources????
Amen.
How much of it ever got to Haiti?
Only the rich girl on the right with the misappropriated funds!!
Only morons voluntarily go to Haiti...
Not much pity required...
“Maybe five years ago, someone invited me to participate in a humanitarian mission to Haiti. I declined because of the danger. Some may call me a coward, but I call it common sense.”
You’re not a coward. You can (and I’m sure you have already) make a difference here in the 50 US States w/o putting your life in danger.
What were they going to accomplish that all the other missionairies that had ever gone to Haiti didn’t?
At some point, there should have been enough Haitian believers that could go throughout the country and spread the gospel, without the need for outside missionairies.
These two loving hearts have been welcomed into heaven by our Lord. I pray for the comfort of their family, the pain must be beyond imagining
I recall that a group of missionaries were killed by the natives in one of the South American countries. It must’ve seemed like a lost cause, but his widow, the sister of one of the other victims and other missionaries went back to the same group of people and continued spreading the Gospel. 20-40% of the Huaroni people are apparently Christian because of both the Protestant and Catholic missionaries that didn’t let fear of death prevent them from sharing Jesus with one of the more violent native groups in that area. The widow even took her 3 year-old daughter. I suspect many people disapproved of that.
What a shame ? These poor folks are of the belief they can help wild animals. Too bad more do gooders won’t get the message.
“Pretty harsh take on two Christian missionaries.”
The number one goal of any Christian should be to protect his family. I tried my darndest to help a renter, a 27 year old “special needs” guy. I got him a working car, which I was giving him for free, agreed to pay the insurance and teach him to drive. Turns out he wasn’t as “special needs” as his live-with Christian grandmother had molded him to be. When she found out, she went ape$hit on me and tried to strike me. I think she was afraid that he would get a job, a girlfriend and move out. (He’s modestly good looking.) He can’t survive without her income as he has practically none of his own. She even stopped me from getting him assistance because she wants him dependent. I asked her, “What happens when she (in her mid-eighties) dies?” She said, “God will take care of him. Now stop interfering with our lives!” So, there’s Christian, there’s Christian and then there’s Christian. They sound the same, but they aren’t.
In my entire thirty-plus year working career, I had one, fabulous, standout boss. From careful observation and listening to what he said, and watching what he did for people who never knew their good fortune was related to him, I found out he was a Christian. I was so impressed. Incidentally, he put his foot down and would not let his daughter go to Haiti. And this was years ago.
Conversely, the man who arguably did the most damage to me introduced himself to me as, “I’m a good, God-fearing Christian man.” Seriously, those were his first words. I should have run away.
I feel sorry for these people.
I knew a terrific guy who had gone to Africa as a missionary. They were digging wells. He said, (approximatly) “I will never do that again. The men sat around smoking dope under the trees while we and their woman worked. F***k ‘em, I’m never going back. I will do my work for God here at home.”
Haiti is a lost cause. You can’t help people who view us as worth whatever they can take off our dead bodies.
Incidentally, I won’t travel to third world country where whatever I’m wearing and carrying is worth more than they’ll make in two months. I’m reminded of a magazine photo* of a naked woman in Africa squatting over a hot rock making some kind of food. She was watching Mary Tyler Moore on a little black and white TV. Is it a good thing to expose these people who have no hope of ever escaping their lot to a life they can’t even espier to?
* Remember when it was perfectly okay to show photos of naked black people in magazines?
“Mooslims or Communists?”
Haitians
You have no concept of how missions work, and the hearts of missionaries. People who don’t get it don’t need to be spouting off; they’re embarrassing themselves.
+1
IAC, Haiti was evangelized by Bill & Hillary...
They should be forced to live out their contemptable lives there...
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