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Mess-O-Missioanries

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, February 23 2009, 21:32:49 (CET)
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I can’t decide which is the more foolish writer, Josephus or Williamson. But one line struck me as familiar. Regarding how the Jews perceived Jesus...

“He would come to save his people: that he would come to save them, not from the Romans but from their own sins, was a thought that never crossed their minds.”

I was reminded of Dr Joseph’s account of how the harassed Nestorians were encouraged to think the Western missionaries came to “save” them from poverty and their feudal and political subjection, a thing they shared with impoverished Muslims as well, and how the missionaries ultimately became indignant that our people only wanted this kind of saving...that they felt perfectly fine spiritually and in fact, were already Christian.

The help the missionaries offered was not material and physical, which their obvious wealth and means, enabling them to travel half-way round the world and fund building projects, schools and clinics etc. had seduced the impoverished villagers. Like the Hebrews of old our people were expecting a totally different kind of “saving” than their souls. Our spirits were fine, it was our larders that were empty. But those sons of bitches didn’t come to help our people at all, in any way. They came to use our people....to “revive” the spirit of evangelism among them and send them out to “save” Muslims...something the missionaries themselves dared not attempt. Our people had precious little enough to call their own, they were now supposed to do the missionaries dirty work and risk everything.

Needless to say they did no such foolish thing but just for welcoming the missionaries and holding out that infamous “hope” we hear tell so much of, they got clobbered in the end anyway.

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