I guess people think of them as humanitarian workers, or at least as people that have given up material comforts to pursue a "higher purpose." A lot of missionary work, especially in the more mainline Christian denominations, is indistinguishable at first glance from secular NGOs/charities.
My cousin and aunt briefly floated the idea of moving to India to do God's work in a mission and were going to sell all their stuff, I asked if I could have his Xbox.
One time a bunch of Texan missionaries were sent to the part of Wales I grew up in, my impression is that the ones that are mask-off racist go to places where the population tends to be white.
Blew their minds that there are black people in Britain. Didn't get along with the locals on account of using Britain and England interchangeably.
because liberal :brainworms: loves charity instead of fixing economic problems at their root cause. I see even secular people who "just gotta hand it to" the missionaries because their colonialist pre-occupation with proselytizing to poor people in far away lands usually comes with a few free crumbs from the imperial core
The real meaning of missionaries is Christians getting rid of their most zealous, problematic members by telling them, "go into the middle of nowhere where you will have no reach and no influence and preach the gospel, brother!"
Honestly orgs should learn from this. It's actually a brilliant move. It's always the crazies who fuck things up for everyone else, and banishing them to furthest nowhere and telling them to build a satellite org is a great way to get rid of them. If they succeed, great! If not, great too. Welcome them home after 30 years and give sympathy for how they didn't accomplish anything because the savages didn't read theory. It's win-win!
The Christians were doing this 1500 years ago. And it worked.
They got rid of their weirdos and gained a ton of satellite orgs. Too many people reflexively dismiss anything the Christians did because muh atheism. But it's actually a power move to appropriate their time-tested tactics and make them work for a positive outcome.
That's really not what it is or why they do it. It's almost always been a means of cultural infiltration either coinciding with or in advance of colonial invasion and occupation. Missionaries played an important role in enforcing colonial control over colonized people by indoctrinating them in European religious beliefs and European notions of their inferiority.
It also serves an important cultural role for the sect doing the proselytizing as it serves as a form of rite of passage for youth, and a way for the community to re-affirm and justify it's own beliefs by doing "Good works" or "Saving souls" or however they conceptualize it. Most Western missionaries in the modern day are poverty tourists with religious delusions and will return to their community after a few months or a few years at most.
It's also a great excuse to step up your imperialism game if you send some missionaries that get killed and now you just have to go and teach someone a lesson. Your hands are tied, some of our people were attacked I totally swear bro just one more punitive expedition and they'll see the light of progress
Only by Christians, and then only within the same sect. Well, and I guess Muslims have a lot of respect for Muslim missionaries. I'm not sure what other religions proselytize other than some cults.
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I guess people think of them as humanitarian workers, or at least as people that have given up material comforts to pursue a "higher purpose." A lot of missionary work, especially in the more mainline Christian denominations, is indistinguishable at first glance from secular NGOs/charities.
Most secular NGOs are awful shit too.
Yes, a lot of "missionary work" is CIA shit, it's literally the same people.
CIA larvae vs CIA puppae
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It's a bit of a stretch but your comment reminded me of this film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Mr._Marshall!
Italy was a pretty funny one to hear from an American
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savage italian catholics need to see the light of the southern anabaptist convention of 1874's holy words!
My cousin and aunt briefly floated the idea of moving to India to do God's work in a mission and were going to sell all their stuff, I asked if I could have his Xbox.
One time a bunch of Texan missionaries were sent to the part of Wales I grew up in, my impression is that the ones that are mask-off racist go to places where the population tends to be white.
Blew their minds that there are black people in Britain. Didn't get along with the locals on account of using Britain and England interchangeably.
Yikes
because liberal :brainworms: loves charity instead of fixing economic problems at their root cause. I see even secular people who "just gotta hand it to" the missionaries because their colonialist pre-occupation with proselytizing to poor people in far away lands usually comes with a few free crumbs from the imperial core
The real meaning of missionaries is Christians getting rid of their most zealous, problematic members by telling them, "go into the middle of nowhere where you will have no reach and no influence and preach the gospel, brother!"
Honestly orgs should learn from this. It's actually a brilliant move. It's always the crazies who fuck things up for everyone else, and banishing them to furthest nowhere and telling them to build a satellite org is a great way to get rid of them. If they succeed, great! If not, great too. Welcome them home after 30 years and give sympathy for how they didn't accomplish anything because the savages didn't read theory. It's win-win!
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The Christians were doing this 1500 years ago. And it worked.
They got rid of their weirdos and gained a ton of satellite orgs. Too many people reflexively dismiss anything the Christians did because muh atheism. But it's actually a power move to appropriate their time-tested tactics and make them work for a positive outcome.
That's really not what it is or why they do it. It's almost always been a means of cultural infiltration either coinciding with or in advance of colonial invasion and occupation. Missionaries played an important role in enforcing colonial control over colonized people by indoctrinating them in European religious beliefs and European notions of their inferiority.
It also serves an important cultural role for the sect doing the proselytizing as it serves as a form of rite of passage for youth, and a way for the community to re-affirm and justify it's own beliefs by doing "Good works" or "Saving souls" or however they conceptualize it. Most Western missionaries in the modern day are poverty tourists with religious delusions and will return to their community after a few months or a few years at most.
It's also a great excuse to step up your imperialism game if you send some missionaries that get killed and now you just have to go and teach someone a lesson. Your hands are tied, some of our people were attacked I totally swear bro just one more punitive expedition and they'll see the light of progress
Libs can respect people who go to developing countries to bully them about their beliefs
ongoing and sanitized colonial projects are still a-ok in the west :agony-minion:
missionaries should be subjected to immediate physical assault tho; turn the other cheek motherfucker :nazi-punching:
Only by Christians, and then only within the same sect. Well, and I guess Muslims have a lot of respect for Muslim missionaries. I'm not sure what other religions proselytize other than some cults.