The original sin is to presume to know the mind of God.
They’re shooting our of sheer Darwinism. After all, all the tribes that didn’t shoot didn’t survive.
It’s amazing that this man was shot to death by arrows in 2018 because he could not leave people the fuck alone.
Then almost every church in existence is based on that sin.
Then the Devil took him into the holy city and had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will command His angels concerning you’; and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”
Jesus said to him, “Satan, you’re a dumbass.”
This, pretty much. The same attitude of those people shown in sound-bites on local TV news bloviating on how God ment for them to survive some catastrophe, implying that all the dozens, hundreds, or thousands who didn’t were people that God wanted dead.
This.
Yeah, like “Waah waah waah somebody told me ‘Happy Holidays’!”
Indeed. The average intelligence just rose a point or two.
I’m reminded of the Charles Addams cartoon showing a missionary doctor meeting with an African tribal chieftain, who’s telling him “Why yes doctor, we’ve had a taste of Western medicine.”*
*the obligatory giant stewing pot looms in the background.
Just to play contrarian for a moment:
…heh, no, that’s not possible; he’s the bad example in a cautionary tale, only anyone who could learn this lesson is presumably too far gone to realize it.
I can only suppose he presumptuously assumed that he would be granted the Gift of Tongues.
From a BBC Article: Family forgive tribe who killed American
‘In a statement, they said John Allen Chau “loved God, life, helping those in need, and had nothing but love for the Sentinelese people”.’
Fuck Them. He was being a selfish fucking asshole. He did not give a fuck that he may kill them all with disease, he did not give a fuck about what they believed or wanted. He did not love these people in any way, to him they were just another tool for his own selfish interest. Asshole.
I’m sure he meant well or thought he did.
Eh he was stupid but it’s just delaying the inevitable, eventually some disease or their own inbreeding will wipe them out, Darwinism indeed.
(emphasis added)
If he thought so, he was delusional. So, at best, he’s psychotic. At worst, and most likely, he was closed-minded religious [del]bigot[/del] zealot.
The Indian government doesn’t dare to land on the Sentinel islands; surveys are carried out aerially and low-flying aircraft are routinely stoned and speared by the inhabitants. Given this is the case, this guy is a complete fuckwit for attempting contact (with his Bible in tow, presumably).
He should have just visited the mainland where aggressive Christian evangelism has been successfully mainstreamed.
The last thing we want is an all-Christian bunch of primitives demanding minority goodies and exposing themselves to vote-bank politics. We would rather they remain primitive and throw stones at us than bibles.
So what? In the long run, we’re all dead anyway. They’ve lasted centuries longer than most other peoples like themselves.
I plan to upload my consciousness to the cloud, possibly as soon as tomorrow if Amazon has a deal on storage rates. Google’s spam filters should keep out the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Yup, so do the devout parents who deny medical treatment to their kids. So did the Spanish Inquisition, for that matter. It’s not enough.