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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a type of American Christian missionary that simply baffles me.  I am a teacher in Germany at an international school.  At our school, we had an American man teaching I for several years.  He was a Christian missionary, and his church or organisation at home in America paid for his family to have a huge apartment here in Germany, much bigger than any other teacher’s family needed.  His wife did not work, and they had four children, so hardly a massive brood.  When he decided to go back to America, he continued to contact all of his former high school students to ask them for money donations so that his family could move to their next “missionary post”, which was going to be another lovely town in Germany.

I do not understand.  Yes, he was a nice man, but I don’t think his constant attempts to convert his wealthy, white European students to his brand of Southern evangelical Christianity was worth his church paying for his luxe apartment and his family’s keep (his teaching salary would have supported the family just fine, on a more modest scale here).  And almost anywhere you go in our town, you are walking distance from at least one church.  I guess he doesn’t think Lutheran and Catholic Churches are the “right” kind of Christianity.

But I would have a hell of a lot more respect for this man if he was trying to spread his religion in a region of the world where some version of the religion doesn’t already exist.  So, not in Europe.  [/quote]

We used to have mormon kids knock on our door at our previous address. I would question them on why they felt they needed to proselytize fellow Christians. Eventually they stopped coming to our house, lol. [/quote]

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