Dead Missionary Proves Beyond Shadow of Doubt Jesus is Imaginary (Holy Spirit, Apostle)
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No, the Christians will just invent even more straw people.
They can't if they're extinct.
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2067: the end of British Christianity
Between 2001 and 2011 the number of Christians born in Britain fell by 5.3 million — about 10,000 a week. If that rate of decline continues, Christianity will come to an end in 2067.
Christianity is falling like a stone in educated countries and rising only in extremely poor uneducated ones. No wonder the RCC tried to keep the people in ignorance for centuries. And it worked for a long time. But scientific advancement is like a snowball down a mountainside and Christianity is like a house at the bottom.
It seems not. One contact -party took along an Islander from nearby Andaman, but they couldn't understand each other. The language does not appear to be understood.
I don't blame you - the article does make the claim "and studying at a respected linguistic institute in order to learn this previously undocumented language." There was one peaceful contact, on film. You can see the Sentinelanese being quite chummy with the visitors, climbing about in the boats. Probably the words they used were transcribed, if not understood, and maybe, Chau went to see what words were known, though they wouldn't have helped him much. Possibly a greeting. A few basic words; "Boat", "Food", "Money", "Women". Not much more than that.
I'm just going by the article. Based on the article, it doesn't appear that this guy was some misguided youth on Spring Break who decided to just stop in to tell 'em bout Jesus.
Somehow I doubt it, and that he is not now learning Sentinelese and preaching the Good News.
A very foolish mistake made by the this young man, considering the history there. (the last 2 illegal Indian fishermen who strayed onto the shores were killed in 2006)
Someone said that he learned Sentenalese before he went...But, I don’t see how...
I'm just going by the article. Based on the article, it doesn't appear that this guy was some misguided youth on Spring Break who decided to just stop in to tell 'em bout Jesus.
Why do so many people have a comprehension problem about this?? Put on your Sherlock Holmes!
The mother said, "I know he's alive." Asked why, she replied, "Because I prayed." That right away tells you this lady is a fundamentalist nutjob. John Chau grew up in this unhealthy bizarro environment being indoctrinated to his core with religious propaganda about saving souls. Short people generally have inferiority complexes, so this guy had to compensate by being THE guy who would go among the most isolated tribe in the world and save them for Jesus. He didn't have a girlfriend---ALL Christian guys want a pretty girlfriend if they're halfway normal. The only girls he had access to were the Christian girls in his church club who often carry around more psychological problems than inmates in a lunatic asylum and he likely couldn't even get a date with one of them because if he could have he would have. Then he would have been so focused on making her happy that he never would have had time for this crazy idea he had of converting the Sentinelese. He got this insane indea in his mind that if he were the first guy to go among the Sentinelese people and live to tell about it and actually convert them to Christianity that would have made him the most famous evangelist in the world. It would have gotten him fame, a book deal, a movie deal--it was less about saving souls than it was about saving his dignity and sense of self-worth and getting so famous he'd have to beat off the pretty Christian girls hot for him now with a stick.
But the guy's delusions were totally out of reality. He couldn't speak the language. He totally miscalculated how hostile these people were. By the time he got shot with the first arrow in his Bible he could have swallowed his pride and limped home. He would have been a complete failure again but at least he'd be alive. But what good is being alive when you don't have a job, you don't have any job prospects, you don't have a Christian girlfriend who wants to live the good life sitting at home all day breeding Christian babies and going out to teas with her Christian girlfriend while her husband slaves all day at work? In short, this thing he got obsessed about would have either made him or break him. And sadly for him, with no Jesus in sight to bail him out it broke him and he paid for it with his life. He clearly was out of his depth. It's possible he even had a latent death wish because he knew this obsession was destroying him.
How do I know all this? Because I was a psychology major in university and a Christian for 60 years so I've seen it all first hand.
I'm just going by the article. Based on the article, it doesn't appear that this guy was some misguided youth on Spring Break who decided to just stop in to tell 'em bout Jesus.
Indeed not. He put some planning and preparation into that. If anything, it makes it worse. He doesn't even have the excuse of ignorance.
Someone said that he learned Sentenalese before he went...But, I don’t see how...
The language is not mutually intelligible with any other local island languages, including the Jarawa or Onge people who did not recognize any of their language when they went there last century.
The isolation means their language has evolved and would not be able to be discerned by anyone else, including discerning Christians.
Hopefully his body is adding nutrients to the local flora and fauna, so his life will not be a complete minus.
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Because I can not rep you again.
