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comment 1
It is clear that many critics here, of the missonary's
intervention, have not read the story carefully. The
girl was saved by her brother who carried her out of the
jungle on his back,
the missonaries responded to the child's needs which got
them involved in
this situation and aware of the practice. It is also clear
from the many
responses from people who criticise Christian missonaries
that they overlook
the influences that modern western culture alone has had on
tearing apart
cultures by various outside influences causing people to make
choices to
follow the old ways or change to new ways of living.
Throughout Africa and
elsewhere people were uprooted from their centuries old
lifestyles by
governments that took their land and forced them into
economic systems and
social arrangments that regulate the way they lived and
prevented them from
living off the land or conducting business in a cashless
sense. North
American Indians had their children taken away from them so
they could be
assimilated into western culture. Is government involvement
any less of a
threat to a cultures survival? So where is the wrong of
Christian groups
putting themselves in the middle of a culture in an effort to
help them see
the world from a different perspective? It is sad, however,
that some have
resorted to 'the arm of the flesh' for the medical needs of
people instead of trusting the promiss of the healer himself,
Jesus. So much power is available but faith is the
prerequisite of that power. Yet we work with what we have
available at the time a need presents itself. To the person
in need this may be a favorable intrusion with no harm
intended How much different of an intrusion into
a cultures integrity are them who try to convince people
that they have
descended from apes or that they need to have a flu shot to
go to school, or
less on the abstract, telling someone who has hunted and
fished for a living
that they can't do that anymore unless they get a permission
slip from the
government?
There is a tremendous amount of hipocricy coming from
the critics of
Christian missonaries, i would not be surprised that these
same people would
be more than happy to put a walmart and a drugstore in the
middle of the
forest and then require a home addresses and currency before
people can do
business. dzp
Comment 2 I must add to my last comment some historical details that may not be thoroughly understood now that western philosophies have twisted history and distorted the cultural record of history and practices that cultures passed
down through the ages.
Infanticide dates back to a time when people were sacrificing their
children to appease the planetary and natural gods that had thrown the world
into turmoil during the catastrophic period when "the gods warred in the
heavens and brought great destruction to the earth". Legends across the
globe speak of this with one voice and have represented their recollection
of this period in art form and carvings on rock. This record has been
deciphered to reveal that the earth and our solar system went through a
chaotic period that repeatedly destroyed vast populations across the globe
and caused people to world over into survival mode and a confusion that
manifested itself in a wide variety of forms, one of them being human
sacrifice. The confusion came as people sought to solve their turmoil
brought upon the earth by the colapse of the planetary arrangement that
predated our current one. The planets were in very close proximity and
people began worshiping them as gods, especcially as they became more
visible through the cosmic vail and began bringng destruction to the earth.
The cause for the confusion has passed because the planets have moved into a
less chaotic relationship, but we must remember that before the former
system collapsed, the earth and its inhabitants experiencedwhat some cultures
called a garden experience in which the electrically charged envirnment created
certain conditions that no longer exist, but they were remembered and
described as being connected and communicating with a higher spiritual
being. That same being came back to earth after the chaos to mend the
confusion and repair the breach caused by the chaos. In part, fear
seperated mankind
from the creator and love has reopened that door. Christ is that door.
Comment 4
We should question the medias focus on this story since they hold so little
outrage for the abortion issue which is no different than infanticide, other
than which side of the birth canal the baby is on. Unwanted pregnancies or
hardship-type rational is not too far removed from the reasoning for this
practice of infanticide and there could be many other variations of rational
expressed the world over that in a our modern culture would be handled by a
pill or a hanger and be no less wrong, even in the probable desperation but
at the same time be not without understandable reasoning, note i didn't say
justified reasoning. What is the difference between; not being able to care for the
child because of your financial or its medical issues or who's father it is,
and thinking that a deformity is evidence or a warning of something of an
undesirable nature, an abnormal human not worth the life it received. I find real curious the statement that the child has the soul of a monkey. From whom did they get that idea? This question will be expanded elsewhere. The
ancient scenario mentioned earlier may have trickled down to this age but
there are so many other influences which could have brought this practice
about, and elevated it to a normal status because of the lack of other
options. Options are not always easy to implement and understanding which
option will actually have the best results is far less obvious. Modern
mankind has placed so little value on human beings that there is little
wonder why a human life can be thought of as expendable. Until recently,
humans looked at themselves with a different set of eyes than is now the
case. We have the proposition of evolution to thanks for this yet minimize
or dehumanizing another culture or race is not new, but in its current form,
dehumanization can be more complete and wide-sweeping, reducing everyone
involved to a attitude that can justify inhumane treatment. How wrong such
behavior is can only be measured by the avenues the practitioners have taken
and consequences produced. Such practices could not occur if we valued
another humans life as we want ours valued. .
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