If the USA leads an attack on the Taliban, what will happen to those missionaries from the USA and (I think) some other countries that are in jail in Afghanistan right now?
I feel sorry for those people caught in this situation. I am fed up with the church leaders who insist on sending missionaries into countries in an effort to convert the people to Christianity. The idea of missionaries is out-dated and needs to be done away with altogether. This is just one more of the many lessons we need to learn from this unfortunate event.
While I wouldn’t wish this upon them, I have very little sympathy for the missionaries. They broke the laws of the country they were visiting. They could have done a Christian act of kindness, and handed out supplies without trying to convert people, but apparently that’s not good enough. They had to preach Christianity to the people while they were there.
A word of advice. If you’re in a country being ruled by a group of religious extremists, don’t go around trying to broadcast your faith to the masses. What would happen to people you converted anyway? Their lives would be endangered for embracing an alternative faith. That’s not a goal Christian folk need to achieve.
Do God’s work by all means, but limit it to physical aid, not spiritual.
We can hope that their rescue might be an objective of the Delta Force or the SAS, otherwise they probably won’t come out of this alive…
I still can’t wrap my head around the concept of two American women going as aid workers to a country where the ruling militia harshly opresses women, hates Americans, and considers even thinking about another religion to be an offense punishable by death…and then trying to spread the Gospel…
The missionaries plight is of their own choosing. This isn’t intended to sound brutal; it’s just realistic. There’s a qualitative difference between offering humanitarian aid–Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, etc.–and tying it with religious conversion.
If their personal beliefs required it of them, okay. Their choice to be martyrs doesn’t translate into obligation on everyone else’s part to pull them out. Their religious fanaticism doesn’t obligate stalling civil diplomacy or soldiers from any nation’s armed forces dying to rescue them.