What about “God will judge them?”
The really difficult part is when you claim that God is omniscient. That means that at the time he was making this decision he already knew he was going to regret it and end up reversing it. So why didn’t he just not make it?
India has enacted laws that prohibited Chau from going to the island where he was killed. So how exactly was India discriminating against him? They were trying to keep him alive, which was more than Chau himself was doing.
Wow, thanks for that. A look into the mind of a zealot.
I’d like to see the actual statement, as clips from it show they are more concerned about Chau’s abettors than the Sentinelese.
They’re not being persecuted, you morons, they’re being prosecuted for violating Indian laws.
Wow, Twitter is a horrible platform for that, but it was very informative. He linked to a second twitter feed:
Which had a poster say the following:
There it is in a nutshell - the mindset. “We have to proselytize to them as soon as possible, for their own good. It’s our Christian duty!”
He is right about one thing - most of the people disapproving of Chau’s actions would also disapprove if it were Jesuits doing it. Not kosher? I don’t think Jesuits are kosher.
His “cause” is saving their souls, what does he care if they all die immediately afterwards, as long as they now go to heaven to worship God in their own way. :rolleyes:
I think the “logic” is that, because the island group is technically in Indian territory, the Sentinelese are Indian, and their hostility toward Chau counted as “Indian discrimination.”
The ICC is conflating the Sentinelese with India, saying it is a part of a trend of violence against Christian missionaries in India. They are ignoring the fact that India has declared them an independent state and has laws against contacting them. They are conflating the acts of individual groups with India as a whole.
One might reasonably say that India persecutes Christians, in that AFAICT there are laws against proselytizing there. That’s a far cry from feeding them to the lions in the arena. And there have been acts of violence by Hindus against Christians. So there definitely is justification for concern over how Christian missionaries are treated. But this ain’t that. The North Sentinelese want to be left alone by all outsiders, whether Christian or not. They likely have no idea of what “Christian” even means.
The ICC is just opportunistic about this incident, using it for publicity.
Absolutely. He wasn’t there to help anyone. He was there to satisfy his own ego and extend control over people. Fuck this guy.
The “murderers” have that loophole in the fact that they have not heard about Jesus, so get to pass God - no indication if they get to collect $200.
If God isn’t going to judge them, then I don’t think we can either.
What have you got against the Interstate Commerce Commission? Are you taking little white pills and your log book’s way behind? 
I thought he meant the Intercounty Connector, and was wondering how a highway could get charged with aiding and abetting.
Firstly - interesting place to use kosher. But mostly, yes, I would laugh at the Jesuits too.
Well, you know, their boss is Jewish.
More than a bit I’d say: fuzziness is part of the UU church’s doctrine. Or rather non-doctrine. Beliefs & Principles | UUA.org
Summary on one page:
http://www.bible.ca/cr-Unitarian-universalist.htm
I am not a Unitarian, but I’d wager they don’t discuss the Trinity too much or too often.
Eventually you’ll be dead too. Should people be able to trespass on your land and actually hasten your death by exposing you to diseases that you wouldn’t worry about had they not been trespassing?
Unitarian Universalism is a book club more than a religion.
It’s not Christian but there are Christian UUs. They just tend to be quite liberal.
I’ll give you 3 to 1 odds they do.
:flees:
You are right. Long pig is not kosher. Jesuits don’t chew their cud.
<Chicago, the Musical> He had it coming! He had it coming!</Chi>
Indeed. A college friend is a Universalist minister, who’s very active in the Christian UU movement - he wrote his master’s thesis on the history of Universalists in Georgia, and likes to conduct services in a surplice and Geneva bands.
I was at his wedding, and it was the bog-standard Western Christian affair: families on either sides of the aisle, “Dearly beloved, we are gathered here…”, “You may now kiss your spouse”, The Wedding March - the standard American hitchin’-up ceremony. The only thing exotic were the two grooms - this was twenty years or so ago, before marriage equality was national.
Nevertheless, my friend’s colleague, who conducted the service, commented that she’d never presided over such an “old-fashioned” wedding ceremony. :dubious:
As far as young Mr. Chau, in my eyes, he’s guilty of attempted negligent homicide. I’m sorry he paid a high price for his stupidity and zealotry, but what he attempted was incredibly stupid, extremely dangerous for both himself and the islanders, and deeply immoral.
In this thread, ICC was referring to the International Christian Concern, the group that was supporting Chau and has made such statements as hoping his murderers are brought to justice. They’re the ones screaming about “persecution of Christians”.