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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see, it’s evil, hateful, wrong, exploitative and every other badness for people to travel to share what they believe is good news, but it’s perfectly OK for you to denounce and defame generations of people from countless denominations because you disagree with them.

IME, people are most often threatened by a message that makes them suspect that what they insist they believe is not true, so they get aggressively defensive. When people think what they’re being told is silly, they more often ignore and/or laugh it off.

When the missionaries leave, should they take their schools, colleges, hospitals, water programs and everything else they brought with them?[/quote]

Do the missionaries understand how un-Christlike their conditional so-called charity actually is?  What would Jesus think of: Love thy neighbor as thy self — as long as you can first force thy neighbors to celebrate every twisted conditions that have been attached to this mockery of “Love”?  [/quote]

I’m sorry, but the cartoonish, caricature you paint really bears no resemblance to reality. Even in the 1500’s, the goal of Jesuit missionaries in Asia was to alleviate corporal suffering as well as to offer people the tools to (as the Jesuits saw it) attain eternal life. The letters of St. Francis Xavier are replete with examples of this. I don’t know where you got this idea of “conditional” charity; I’ve spent a ton of time around missionaries spanning nearly three decades and I’ve never once encountered anything like that. [/quote]

? if they're not spreading the word they're not "missionaries."  What you're describing as helping people can be done by any secular charitable organization.  The difference is that along with the missionaries' help comes a sermon and efforts to convert them to a particular religion.  [/quote]

That is simply not true. [b]Mission work is an example of love in action. People give in love and typically receive love in return. [/b] The missionaries I know don’t force a sermon or try to force conversions. What they do is give an example of agape, self giving love. The people they help often receive from them for the first time the respect and dignity due them as human persons.  And if you think “secular charitable organizations” don’t have an agenda as powerful as any overdrawn Bible beater caricature dreamed up by any fiction author, well, you’re not doing your homework. [/quote]

So missionaries are just spreading love?  Well, that should make OP feel better, see she thought they came to third-world countries to convert the people and destroy their local practices and languages because they think they know better than those folks. But you're saying that's really not the case, they're just spreading love.  O.K.   [/quote]

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