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I guess this proves prayers alone aren’t enough. You’ve got to have some thoughts as well.
“I can’t believe I got an arrow to the face”, said man preaching at Arrow-To-The-Face island.
If I recall the two fishermen stranded there years back were killed and the Indian government decided natives on that island wouldn’t be charged with any murder past or future. Prime directive and all that.
I don’t see what the problem is here: He told them about the wonders of Heaven, and they rewarded him with a free trip.
Nock one up to a flute of stupidity; I’m sure this will recurve it’s way into the Darwin Awards nominations this year.
Tripler
Straight to the point of the finals.
It’s worse than that. Many Christians and, presumably this idiot, believe that if you’ve never heard about God/Jesus/Heaven that you automatically get a one-way ticket into Heaven when you die. If, however, you’ve heard about it but chose not to believe in it, then you go straight to hell. So this nimrod (according to his own belief system) doomed them to hell.
So he broke the law, risked infecting them with disease and death and doomed them to hell all for his crackpot religion.
And now he’s dead and being dragged around that island. Better him than them.
Great way to commit a murder. Invite someone to do some spreadin’ of the Good Word with you, trek off to hinterlands, then shoot them with a cross bow you had broken down in your backpack, pull out the arrow and dispose of it, drag the body back to the boat and claim the Heathens did it.
Maybe I have binged to much Monk.
I often wonder if there is an ulterior plan here-To prevent undesirable people from getting an automatic pass to Heaven.
This guy reminds me of St. Sebastian. A really, really unsuccessful St. Sebastian.
One of the things I read about the tribe is that they are pretty much slowly dying off on their own, and the Indian government helps them along. Good of this so called Christian to show up and maybe speed up their demise. Jesus would totally have done that. :smack:
ETA: “slowly dying off on their own, and the Indian government helps them along…”
Phrased poorly. You know what I meant!!
Most indigenous peoples would’ve been better off if the automatically slaughtered every white person who tried to make landfall. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Hate the Cracked headline. Some of those isolated groups know that civilization exists. That guy on his own in Brazil? Civilization killed all of his people.
He reminds me of Li’l Sebastian, because he was horsing around but now he’s dead.
I was just looking at this person’s Instagram account. It’s full of selfies of him in some exotic or remote place. It seems awfully boastful and very un-Christian to trumpet your achievements like that.
Theologians have been discussing this for centuries.
I’m Christian, and I also think this guy qualifies for a Darwin Award. There are places in the world where outsiders of any kind ARE.NOT.WELCOME and this is one of them.
Just curious: when was this?
Within the past few years, I read this very interesting book by one of the doctors who participated in the WHO’s smallpox eradication program, and one place where they DID NOT go was the remote Amazon rainforest, because there was no evidence that smallpox existed there; if there was, they might have been a little bit more aggressive about it, and they were also concerned about both them and the tribal members contracting diseases the others had never been exposed to.
One reason why Christianity took hold in Mexico was because the natives died en masse from diseases they’d never been exposed to (measles, smallpox, etc.) and they saw that their invaders, who said they were Christian, seemed to be protected (ahem, it’s because they’d already had them back home) and decided this “protection” couldn’t hurt either.
One of the American missionaries who got Ebola and lived to tell about it said in a podcast, “The love of God protects us from absolutely nothing.” So, why does he believe? He believes that it enables us to cope with whatever does happen.
Are the arrow tips stone or metal?
Steel would imply some cheating on the islanders part.
OTOH, it’d be interesting to see what a modern stone age point looks like.
Why can’t we just eat them?
No ketchup?
An article I read earlier today (no idea where) said that they pick up metal containers that float up to the shore. They were described as a prized possession among the Sentinelese for, among reasons, their use as arrowheads.