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Missionaries more interested in making converts or just plain helping?

posted 13 years ago by seroteamavi2001
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That is what I find very bothersome about some mission groups. Tehy are more interested in getting people in thinking like them then really helping them. For instance, would they try to help if the people wanted to stay Buddhist or something not like they were? I'm not just talking about this movie but in real life.
Many Christian groups(especially Evangelicals) seem to only want to turn people into ones that think just like them. Its not about the person but more about thought.

[–] anexas 10 years ago

help is a bribe.. it is for you if only you would...

[–] Foot_of_Davros 8 years ago

Ha, you missed one consideration - I think the primary interests of these types of people are:-

1. Gaining an interesting dinner party discussion piece (that they'd really rather not talk about but invariably will, at great length, and which will turn to all their suffering).

2. Making converts.

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3. Helping people.

The truth about Marti Pellow
https://youtu.be/C0VOJ0Z3vY0

[–] FirstBlood1982 8 years ago

The people in the village they went to already were believers...so just in case your asinine anti-theism wasn't inaccurate enough as it is, that fact makes it even more so.

+++by His wounds we are healed. - Isaiah 53:5+++

[–] Foot_of_Davros 8 years ago

Apologies - it's impossible to judge if your reply was intentionally directed at myself or actually meant for the OP, as neither post makes any anti-theistic point whatsoever, "asinine" or not...

The truth about Marti Pellow
https://youtu.be/C0VOJ0Z3vY0

[–] tyrexden 8 years ago

yes... its much more constructive to just do nothing, while criticizing the do'ers on a message board.... am i rite?