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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the OP is talking about those who come to her part of the world to "convert us."  I don't thinks she's talking about the ones who just duig wells, provide medical services and, you know, spread the love.  [u]So to stay on topic [/u] the responses should be about those missionaries who try to spread the word, tell the people how to obtain eternal salvation and so forth.    [/quote]

[b]Does “spreading the love” mean encouraging indigenous people to “let go” of traditional beliefs? [/b]

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you should ask the person who said that.  I don't think anyone really believes that's all missionaries do.  [/quote]

[b]Is that ok for any missionaries to do? [/b]
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It depends on what you believe I guess.  The missionaries in Hawaii got the females to cover up their toplessness because the Bible (from the midd-east) deemed it immoral.  Is that ok with you?[/quote]

The missionaries shouldn’t have been there in the first place. 
They certainly shouldn’t have have forced any changes to local traditions & customs & religion. 
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At the same time, some local traditions would have prevented them from catching up to the modern times.
They needed to learn to read and write, do away with the custom of walking topless and the taboo of men and women eating together.
A new century was on their doorstep and they needed the skills to navigate it in order to survive as a people[/quote]

“Local traditions” in the Hawaiian culture included the abandonment/exposure of infants deemed “defective.”  Also the maintenance of a caste system that included a slave caste others considered disgusting. Incestuous marriages among the elite, death penalty inflicted at whim by the ruling class, and human sacrifice were also traditional practices.

In other parts of the world, “traditional practices” to this day include “honor killings,” forcible concubinage, involuntary servitude, and the murder of homosexuals, among other things.

The notion that “traditional practices” represent some sort of divine Eden that must never be interfered with is juvenile and ill-informed at best. [/quote]

The notion that because you’re rich, privileged and belong to a different religion than they do, that you have the right to “interfere” with their lives and practices is juvenile and ill-informed at best.[/quote]

Said the DCUMer on her sofa waving her glass of wine and saying all missionary medical work should be banned because there’s a cross on the wall and those poor Haitians don’t know how to make their own decisions. [/quote]

Said the DCUMer on her sofa waving her glass of wine and saying all missionary medical work should not be banned just because there’s a cross on the wall and those poor Haitians don’t know how to make their own decisions[/quote]

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