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The Surprising Discovery About Those Colonialist, Proselytizing Missionaries
Christianity Today ^
| January 8, 2014
| Andrea Palpant Dilley
Posted on 07/09/2017 8:19:44 PM PDT by tbw2
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/january-february/world-missionaries-made.html
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posted on
07/09/2017 8:19:45 PM PDT
by
tbw2
To: All
Oh boy, this ought to be good.
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posted on
07/09/2017 8:25:53 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Rehab is for quitters.)
To: tbw2
Well, the sexually transmitted and other diseases the Catholic missionaries brought with them were obviously not helpful to those areas.
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posted on
07/09/2017 8:29:25 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: BipolarBob
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posted on
07/09/2017 8:30:18 PM PDT
by
Ray76
(DRAIN THE SWAMP)
To: tbw2
Catholics Christianized the whole of Europe.
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posted on
07/09/2017 8:30:20 PM PDT
by
Ray76
(DRAIN THE SWAMP)
To: tbw2
I’m originally from California and even though I’m Protestant, I’ve always loved going to the missions. They’re some of the most beautiful architecture in California. Also, if it weren’t for the Crusader Popes, none of us would be here. We need someone like that today to counter the endless supply of crazies from the desert crazy nations. The Allah is great - BOOM, nations
To: tbw2
Could have found any number of paragraphs that would have been more accurate to what the article is about.
It's a very good article.
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posted on
07/09/2017 8:34:15 PM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: BipolarBob; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; boatbums; CynicalBear; daniel1212; dragonblustar; Dutchboy88; ...
The article is fantastic and fascinating.
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posted on
07/09/2017 8:42:01 PM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
To: metmom
yes it is.
Just emailed a link to the article to my buddy, who’s an elder at church.
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posted on
07/09/2017 8:44:44 PM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: Ray76
How is it a troll post?
Did you read the article?
Perhaps you could show us where the author is wrong.
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posted on
07/09/2017 8:51:03 PM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
To: Ray76
Catholics Christianized the whole of Europe. They Catholicized all of Europe.
They didn't Christianize anything.
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posted on
07/09/2017 8:55:34 PM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
To: tbw2
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posted on
07/09/2017 8:56:19 PM PDT
by
Popman
To: metmom
Please. The post is designed to antagonize.
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posted on
07/09/2017 8:59:30 PM PDT
by
Ray76
(DRAIN THE SWAMP)
To: metmom
> They Catholicized all of Europe.
>
> They didn’t Christianize anything.
That is an ignorant remark.
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posted on
07/09/2017 9:01:42 PM PDT
by
Ray76
(DRAIN THE SWAMP)
To: Ray76
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posted on
07/09/2017 9:06:52 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: tbw2
If strong democratic institutions condone something that is clearly wrong, like infanticide (or abortion), what good are those strong institutions doing?
This is in no way to disparage the missionaries' sacrifice and overall salutary impact.
To: metmom
“They didn’t Christianize anything.”
Of course they did - and even the early Protestants would have agreed. Before the Catholic Church arrived Europe was pagan believing in many gods. After the Catholic Church came to Europe and taught people about Jesus - which they most certainly did - millions became Christians. They became Catholic Christians. There were no Protestants like yourself for more than 1400 years. Those are just the facts and there are plenty of Protestant scholars who admit them.
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posted on
07/09/2017 9:18:48 PM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: tbw2
Correlation does not prove causation.
Even if the author was unbiased in his collection and analysis of data (he was a professional Protestant scholar after all), the author himself repeatedly points out Government policies as the cause of the discrepancy - the difference in (largely Catholic) French and (nominally Protestant) British educational policies in their colonies.
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posted on
07/09/2017 9:20:10 PM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: tbw2
Lord have mercy!
Another Catholic bashing thread.
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posted on
07/09/2017 9:25:24 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: BeauBo
Nonsense!
There why did Catholics build the first hospitals?
Why did Catholics establish excellent schools?
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posted on
07/09/2017 9:29:08 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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