This is why (I have several more historical reasons actually) I believe we need to ban missionaries and people that evangelize the Christian bible (or any religion for that matter).
They rely on predatory tactics to spread their message and often plant seeds of division where they preach. I was reading a story about missionaries' tactics and one of them included only giving food to the poor that would agree to listen to the Bible. They wouldn't give poor people food until they sat down and listened to the priest.
These fuckers are all over Guatemala too. They haven’t managed to penetrate my region yet but they’re persistent as hell. Send some away and two more show up.
This is the best option tbh, if you can't ban it outright at least prevent outside actors from coming to your country and treating their "mission" like it's a vacation and opportunity to gawk at the backwards locals who desperately need your help.
This is why (I have several more historical reasons actually) I believe we need to ban missionaries and people that evangelize the Christian bible (or any religion for that matter).
Anyone who disagrees with this probably needs to self crit honestly.
I have lots of religious friends, I love them dearly.
But the fact of the matter is that religion has been a covert tool for organizations and governments to engage in disinformation and even information warfare in the past. It still is used today.
How missionaries in Africa spread the myth that aids is spread through gay sex and did the opposite of promoting protection during sex.
In another thread I ran into this nonsense and instead of doing the self crit, the other person accused me of being a bad faith bigot and went whining to the mods.
Like I'm directly quoting the most famous sermon Jesus ever gave and that's supposed to be an outlier? These are mainstream opinions held by the majority of the faithful.
This is why (I have several more historical reasons actually) I believe we need to ban missionaries and people that evangelize the Christian bible (or any religion for that matter).
They rely on predatory tactics to spread their message and often plant seeds of division where they preach. I was reading a story about missionaries' tactics and one of them included only giving food to the poor that would agree to listen to the Bible. They wouldn't give poor people food until they sat down and listened to the priest.
It's sickening.
These fuckers are all over Guatemala too. They haven’t managed to penetrate my region yet but they’re persistent as hell. Send some away and two more show up.
Iran and Saudi Arabia banned missionaries and building churches, it's the only law I wish western countries would just adopt.
The church hasn't ended its predatory behaviors, it just has better marketing now.
china also doesn't allow foreign missionaries, only local Chinese people can be missionaries in China
This is the best option tbh, if you can't ban it outright at least prevent outside actors from coming to your country and treating their "mission" like it's a vacation and opportunity to gawk at the backwards locals who desperately need your help.
Anyone who disagrees with this probably needs to self crit honestly.
I have lots of religious friends, I love them dearly.
But the fact of the matter is that religion has been a covert tool for organizations and governments to engage in disinformation and even information warfare in the past. It still is used today.
How missionaries in Africa spread the myth that aids is spread through gay sex and did the opposite of promoting protection during sex.
It's gotten people killed and ruined lives
But have you considered that's just extremist Christianity and not representative of mainstream Christianity? Checkmate atheists.
Haha all christianity is extremist
people used to do this line of "logic" at me and I'd get mad lol
In another thread I ran into this nonsense and instead of doing the self crit, the other person accused me of being a bad faith bigot and went whining to the mods.
Like I'm directly quoting the most famous sermon Jesus ever gave and that's supposed to be an outlier? These are mainstream opinions held by the majority of the faithful.
They do that in the US, too lmao